Agree with DampGardenMan 👍. I prescribed myself an hour or so of self-medication this lunchtime (turned into 5hrs outside) 😆.
Got lucky with the weather, it's been dry and bright for most of the day so I got a lot done. Gave a very wild and woolly honeysuckle a good haircut, also a lavender that was at risk of getting leggy. Weeded and dug over some bare ground, ready for the peas. Fiddled about with some string, to put a fan trained chaenomeles back in it's place.
Oh, and crap corner had a good old clear out. Found some pots of dicentra I'd forgotten about (oops), and some old pots and cell trays from last season nurturing a very nice moss collection.
Collected lots of slugs & snails along the way, who have been re-homed in the council green bin, to await their trip to the glorious giant compost heap 😁.
Kristine, when I run out of compost I find myself pinching scoopfuls from around the garden to make up the shortfall 😉.
@DampGardenMan@Lizzie27@kristine015 Yes, it’s all good - just feels like I have so much to do to make a significant change. Only really rushing to get the seeding and planting done before we get too far into spring.
My council garden waste bin arrived as I started on the front garden so that’s good. Think I’m going to need two to cart away the build up at the back of my garden, every two weeks for several months.
Need some dry days so I can cut down some trees and turn them into arches for the grapevine.
@DampGardenMan flowers on prescription, what a wonderful idea! I bought the Gardener's World mag. for April as the free seeds made it good value for money.........it costs 7.05 euro here to buy!!
You got more done than I did Tin Pot and your garden looks nice and tidy now, so next time out (when it stops raining!) you can do more pleasurable things.
Busy-Lizzie - snap, we're also opening on the 17th June (and 16th). Oh help! Are there many of us are doing the same this year?
Good luck with your Open Days, Lizzie. It won't matter if we open on the same day as I'm in Dordogne
Yesterday I put all the window sill babies in the GH. I have a small heater in there, a heated mat and 3 electric propagators. Still raining so gardening is on hold.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@DampGardenMan flowers on prescription, what a wonderful idea! I bought the Gardener's World mag. for April as the free seeds made it good value for money.........it costs 7.05 euro here to buy!!
Which seeds were they giving away? Mind you, 7€ seems quite expensive to me!
No UK gardening magazines unless I'm at Nantes airport fetching Possum or others.
After a couple of weeks of no gardening because of rain or other activities I have finally got out there and planted the Charlotte spuds. OH is clearing another bed ready for composting and then Bintje potatoes. Meanwhile, 7 dahlias potted up in the polytunnel and 20 tigridia bulbs soaking before planting out.
Can't decide whether to put the sweet potatoes in the tunnel where it's warm but bone dray at the mo or outside in a sheltered bed with a cloche.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Loveely warm day, sowed more peas (mouse ate the last lot)moved them from greenhouse back to potting shed, tidied greenhouse, watered citrus, sowed sunflowers, dwarf green beans, doesnt sound like much but took quite a long time.
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I prescribed myself an hour or so of self-medication this lunchtime (turned into 5hrs outside) 😆.
Got lucky with the weather, it's been dry and bright for most of the day so I got a lot done. Gave a very wild and woolly honeysuckle a good haircut, also a lavender that was at risk of getting leggy.
Weeded and dug over some bare ground, ready for the peas. Fiddled about with some string, to put a fan trained chaenomeles back in it's place.
Oh, and crap corner had a good old clear out.
Found some pots of dicentra I'd forgotten about (oops), and some old pots and cell trays from last season nurturing a very nice moss collection.
Collected lots of slugs & snails along the way, who have been re-homed in the council green bin, to await their trip to the glorious giant compost heap 😁.
Kristine, when I run out of compost I find myself pinching scoopfuls from around the garden to make up the shortfall 😉.
Yes, it’s all good - just feels like I have so much to do to make a significant change. Only really rushing to get the seeding and planting done before we get too far into spring.
My council garden waste bin arrived as I started on the front garden so that’s good. Think I’m going to need two to cart away the build up at the back of my garden, every two weeks for several months.
Need some dry days so I can cut down some trees and turn them into arches for the grapevine.
Yesterday I put all the window sill babies in the GH. I have a small heater in there, a heated mat and 3 electric propagators. Still raining so gardening is on hold.
After a couple of weeks of no gardening because of rain or other activities I have finally got out there and planted the Charlotte spuds. OH is clearing another bed ready for composting and then Bintje potatoes. Meanwhile, 7 dahlias potted up in the polytunnel and 20 tigridia bulbs soaking before planting out.
Can't decide whether to put the sweet potatoes in the tunnel where it's warm but bone dray at the mo or outside in a sheltered bed with a cloche.
Thanks Busy-Lizzie, I knew you were in France but thought we could perhaps compare notes as to progress along the way. Perhaps start a new thread?