Tootles I hope your work issues are resolved soon, yes gardening is the best stress buster I know. Over the last few days I have mostly been wheeling & spreading Horse manure on the allotment. I did manage to start digging out the old strawberry bed which is full of bindweed so I am having to pick through it a handful at a time. But all the rain means the ground is far too wet to have any chance of "spinning it in" with the rotavator for now.
Busy day today, potted up 40 plug plants will be keeping them inside until Monday and then they can go into the frost free greenhouse. Popped out to Webbs and bought some bluebells and violas 20% off for cardholders at the moment . On the way back went into Ashwoods for a bag of compost and came home with a new Hellebore. A beautiful dark purple. Now I'm relaxing with a well earned cuppa.
Rain stopped play. Was reduced to doing h*work and got shopping done too so free all day tomorrow when it should be dry - according to the forecast - but draughty.
Tootles - hope you get your work issues resolved asap.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Garden tidied up at Weekend , waiting for spring and no more gardening until after 9th April when holidays finished Have been concentrating on getting allotment ready Rained all day and getting colder
I bought some fleece to wrap round my new Clematis,and to protect the Rhododendron buds,battling the wind to get it fixed! The forecast is for snow showers here on Sat/Sun. Planted 15 tiny Geranium plug plants,but worth it for the money saved. The kitchen windowsills are packed with plants and the cats have lost their place to sit and view the garden! Surely the weather will get better soon?😁
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I planted around our small pond - harebells, an ornamental grass and ragged robin, then added woodchip to help stop the weeds from coming through. I also emptied some large pots of last years pelagonians that haven't overwintered as well as in the previous year. OH pulling weeds out of field walls.
Another fairly productive morning in the garden,trying to rearrange the DS wall, with plantings of Arabis in purple and white. A couple of bees were hanging around,so had to stop for a while so they could get to the flowers! Rain forecast for pm,so back to the washing and cleaning!😞😞
The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
I keep getting rained off! Frustrating. Trying to weed one newish bed, move things about, plant out daffs that were in pots and I keep getting rain down my collar. Not good.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
You could be fighting a losing battle Obelixx! No rain here so I was able to help OH to cover the pond pump with some fine mesh to prevent all the amphibians and other insects from being sucked into the system. We had a sliced newt last week - that was the last straw for me, I was so upset. Dead headed daffs, repotted over wintered herbs and enjoyed the sunshine.
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Over the last few days I have mostly been wheeling & spreading Horse manure on the allotment. I did manage to start digging out the old strawberry bed which is full of bindweed so I am having to pick through it a handful at a time. But all the rain means the ground is far too wet to have any chance of "spinning it in" with the rotavator for now.
Tootles - hope you get your work issues resolved asap.
Have been concentrating on getting allotment ready
Rained all day and getting colder
Planted 15 tiny Geranium plug plants,but worth it for the money saved. The kitchen windowsills are packed with plants and the cats have lost their place to sit and view the garden!
Surely the weather will get better soon?😁