Can sympathise with your building site Nanny B, l'm currently having a loft conversion and it has somehow involved all the other rooms in the house to varying extent, and part of the garden...
Bought 3 potted rasps, (Ruby Beauty, never heard of them) from B&Q yesterday, on the dead plant shelf, £4 reduced from £10. Best thing I've seen on the dead plant shelf for ages. Plants okay but unwatered, had them sat in the shade in some water overnight.
Heavy rain forecast over the next few days so I'm off up the 'lotment now to dig clay out of a ditch under the burning sun☀️☀️☀️
You have my sympathies Victoria, I know it doesn impact everywhere doesnt it? Havent vaccumed or dusted for 2 weeks Quenten Crisps eat your heart out.! Dont forget to wear your sun cream
We have been picking up all the fallen pine cones after the heavy rain stopped. Prior to the rain we weeded the long driveway - although we have underlay stuff, grid and gravel we are beginning to get the odd weed coming through - best to be pulled out before they seed and spread.
Got an earlyl,mid and late blueberry, they go in my raspberry cage when they are ripe, got loads at the mo, plus red goosberries, first year, and blackcurrants, couldnt get down ther because of building work, awaiting rain!
Good news today, found hedgehog ? all over the garden, haven't had a hog for two years now, had 3 regulars and they all disappeared one summer. Ordered some pig food as all I have is bird food and cleaned out the water bowls in celebration.
Was in a mood for moving stuff today but prevented myself as I'll only ruin the flowers. Planted a nepeta and a centaurea that have been sat around for a while and moved one plant, a little phlox blue paradise into a border of pink and white frothiness to add some substance.
Tidied and trimmed the stolen strip, the shasta daisy the council strimmed has resprouted and I cut down some of the rosebay herb that my builders had snapped by chucking stuff off the scaffold. Missed my Royalty crab apple so I can live with that. The moths might not, moth zone 2 is trashed
Hello , just got in after a major trim of a Elderflower Bush and 2 Ash trees , didn't do it last year and they where blocking my view of fields from side Conservatory , very pleased with myself
Just got to bag up the trimmings and take to tip , o/h doesn't want me to burn them
Victoria S , pleased about Hog , saw ours for first time in ages a few weeks ago , just put some meely worms out for him/her , we call ours Harold , a bit mad but !
I have been growing my bush tomatoes quite sucessfully weather permitting, in small plant pots for years. These small pots were 23cm rim 15cm at the base When the six plants fell over yet again I took action.
My quick fix was a dash to B & Q for six large black buckets £1 each. Holes drilled into the base of the buckets and the plants replanted with intact soil ball and compost poured around the edge to fill the bucket. I don't know how long the buckets will last but they look quite smart and are much more stable,
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Good morning all cut front lawn and edged yesterday , o/h took some leaves of tomatoes ?, although they have not done very well this year
Chilli ? plants looking good and had a monster of a cucumber ? on Saturday
Just about to cut back lawn
Can sympathise with your building site Nanny B, l'm currently having a loft conversion and it has somehow involved all the other rooms in the house to varying extent, and part of the garden...
Bought 3 potted rasps, (Ruby Beauty, never heard of them) from B&Q yesterday, on the dead plant shelf, £4 reduced from £10. Best thing I've seen on the dead plant shelf for ages. Plants okay but unwatered, had them sat in the shade in some water overnight.
Heavy rain forecast over the next few days so I'm off up the 'lotment now to dig clay out of a ditch under the burning sun
☀️☀️☀️
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You have my sympathies Victoria, I know it doesn impact everywhere doesnt it? Havent vaccumed or dusted for 2 weeks Quenten Crisps eat your heart out.! Dont forget to wear your sun cream
We have been picking up all the fallen pine cones after the heavy rain stopped. Prior to the rain we weeded the long driveway - although we have underlay stuff, grid and gravel we are beginning to get the odd weed coming through - best to be pulled out before they seed and spread.
Hello , afternoon at allotment , lots done
Picked last of rasberrys and berrys plus some more Gooseberrys , birds have eaten Blueberrys , forgot to net them , the way it goes
Got an earlyl,mid and late blueberry, they go in my raspberry cage when they are ripe, got loads at the mo, plus red goosberries, first year, and blackcurrants, couldnt get down ther because of building work, awaiting rain!
Good news today, found hedgehog ? all over the garden, haven't had a hog for two years now, had 3 regulars and they all disappeared one summer. Ordered some pig food as all I have is bird food and cleaned out the water bowls in celebration.
Was in a mood for moving stuff today but prevented myself as I'll only ruin the flowers. Planted a nepeta and a centaurea that have been sat around for a while and moved one plant, a little phlox blue paradise into a border of pink and white frothiness to add some substance.
Tidied and trimmed the stolen strip, the shasta daisy the council strimmed has resprouted and I cut down some of the rosebay herb that my builders had snapped by chucking stuff off the scaffold. Missed my Royalty crab apple so I can live with that. The moths might not, moth zone 2 is trashed
Hello , just got in after a major trim of a Elderflower Bush and 2 Ash trees , didn't do it last year and they where blocking my view of fields from side Conservatory , very pleased with myself
Just got to bag up the trimmings and take to tip , o/h doesn't want me to burn them
Victoria S , pleased about Hog , saw ours for first time in ages a few weeks ago , just put some meely worms out for him/her , we call ours Harold , a bit mad but !
I spent the day repotting my bush tomatoes.
I have been growing my bush tomatoes quite sucessfully weather permitting, in small plant pots for years. These small pots were 23cm rim 15cm at the base When the six plants fell over yet again I took action.
My quick fix was a dash to B & Q for six large black buckets £1 each. Holes drilled into the base of the buckets and the plants replanted with intact soil ball and compost poured around the edge to fill the bucket. I don't know how long the buckets will last but they look quite smart and are much more stable,
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