Grim today 🌧 Took a few bags of topmud up from the front garden.
Put my Heleniums back in the greenhouse, they'd caught some bugs in the cosy conditions in the greenhouse so had put them back out in the cold last week. They're now cured thanks to the frost so swapped with some young lupins who have now contracted mildew from same cosy conditions. They don't need to live inside but it's hard to keep pots from getting too soggy outside and neither plant likes sog.
Hope we get some nice cold but sunny weekend days this winter, got loads of stuff to do...
Hello, yes that is how my hardy plants normally live, I have about 30 pots against the house and outbuilding now, mostly small perennials, some seedlings, also bulbs and a small rowan tree I made.
I only had one young lupin rot this way last year but Heleniums in pots don't like it at all, I've lost a few as they just get smaller and smaller before rotting away. It doesn't help that my garden gets no sun in winter due to the buildings and my neighbour's conifer hedge. At least my allotment gets sun when it's sunny 😀 ☀️
GWRS mine is strapped down exactly as you suggest as others have done the same due to losses over the years it's great living on the coast and the allotments sheltered slightly by trees and houses but we do get strong SW gales in the winter, last year we recorded a gust of 102 mph and gusts of 70 or 80 mph are not uncommon
Not got to the allotment the last few days due to the constant rain but forecast is dry for today and it looks good so I will be off in a short while.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Lovely day but walked down High st as the Christmas Market was on , with roads closed Hoping to go to allotment tomorrow , just 1 bed left to to dig and cover with horse manure , an old strawberry bed Still got lots of pruning to do
Took 5 bags of topsoil mud up the lotment today from my front garden, also 3 bags of horse poo I bought yesterday.
Remnants of the sleety blizzardyness was still covering the ground from yester eve and ground was crispy but it felt warmer to me. Put my small lupins back in the greenhouse. They had incurred a mild leprosy from the close conditions in the greenhouse but a fortnight outside has put them to rights.
There was a robin bouncing around in the greenhouse (left the door open) I might put some food out next weekend.
Need to do a spot of weeding before I put the horse poo around the fruit and also need to move a black and a pink currant and a yellow gooseberry, that's pencilled in for next weekend.
Went up the lotment today to check all was in order. It was.
In the new year I'll start up my job list again:
Weed everywhere
Move a pinkcurrant and a gooseberry I temporarily planted (a year ago)
Move the blackcurrant I had as a test plant in the flood zone to a proper place
Buy some cordons, apples and pears
That's about all I can do until the clay disintegrates.
Checked on some of my seedlings: These are sidalcea and verbascum Phoenician. (And a few unknown rogues).
Checked on the erynigiums I'm growing on:
I think I got them all from a grower on eBay, they're doing alright I think. Didn't want to plant them straight out as small plants in case my garden flooded again this winter.
Have eaten all the beetroot now, will have to start buying it again. Going to grow as much as I can next year (clay heaps willing) as it freezes/defrosts well and is a moderately expensive veg I think, plus all the plastic they're packed in.
Hope you all had a good Xmas and go on to have a happy new year 🎆
Excellent Christmas and hope you did to , in Swindon until end of year The weather is so mild , wondering when the frosts and / or rain will start ? Looking forward to getting to allotment in the New Year
There has been many frosts up here already, latest one was yesterday and I daren't negotiate the bridge over my pond as it was so slippy. Many windcreen scrapes and frozen birdbath episodes but I haven't seen the pond frozen over yet.
I like my allotment when the surface has crusted over, makes a change from clagging about in the clay
According to my photos, it first properly snowed mid Jan last winter, this was a pic of some of the blackbirds I was feeding: Actually, I think the one on the coconut is a starling 🤔 This is before I extended the pond, it feels like years ago I redug it though, strange...not even 1 year.
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Put my Heleniums back in the greenhouse, they'd caught some bugs in the cosy conditions in the greenhouse so had put them back out in the cold last week. They're now cured thanks to the frost so swapped with some young lupins who have now contracted mildew from same cosy conditions. They don't need to live inside but it's hard to keep pots from getting too soggy outside and neither plant likes sog.
Hope we get some nice cold but sunny weekend days this winter, got loads of stuff to do...
I only had one young lupin rot this way last year but Heleniums in pots don't like it at all, I've lost a few as they just get smaller and smaller before rotting away.
It doesn't help that my garden gets no sun in winter due to the buildings and my neighbour's conifer hedge. At least my allotment gets sun when it's sunny 😀 ☀️
Not got to the allotment the last few days due to the constant rain but forecast is dry for today and it looks good so I will be off in a short while.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Hoping to go to allotment tomorrow , just 1 bed left to to dig and cover with horse manure , an old strawberry bed
Still got lots of pruning to do
Remnants of the sleety blizzardyness was still covering the ground from yester eve and ground was crispy but it felt warmer to me. Put my small lupins back in the greenhouse. They had incurred a mild leprosy from the close conditions in the greenhouse but a fortnight outside has put them to rights.
There was a robin bouncing around in the greenhouse (left the door open) I might put some food out next weekend.
Need to do a spot of weeding before I put the horse poo around the fruit and also need to move a black and a pink currant and a yellow gooseberry, that's pencilled in for next weekend.
In the new year I'll start up my job list again:
Checked on some of my seedlings:
These are sidalcea and verbascum Phoenician. (And a few unknown rogues).
Checked on the erynigiums I'm growing on:
I think I got them all from a grower on eBay, they're doing alright I think. Didn't want to plant them straight out as small plants in case my garden flooded again this winter.
Have eaten all the beetroot now, will have to start buying it again. Going to grow as much as I can next year (clay heaps willing) as it freezes/defrosts well and is a moderately expensive veg I think, plus all the plastic they're packed in.
Hope you all had a good Xmas and go on to have a happy new year 🎆
The weather is so mild , wondering when the frosts and / or rain will start ?
Looking forward to getting to allotment in the New Year
I like my allotment when the surface has crusted over, makes a change from clagging about in the clay
According to my photos, it first properly snowed mid Jan last winter, this was a pic of some of the blackbirds I was feeding:
Actually, I think the one on the coconut is a starling 🤔 This is before I extended the pond, it feels like years ago I redug it though, strange...not even 1 year.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog