Had the grass cut for the first time this year. He will now come every 14 days, weather permitting. I would like every 7 days but it would be a bit too expensive
I spent an hour in the garden today. I did some more weeding of the border around the greenhouse, planted out some hyssop in said border and dug up a dead acer in the corner of the border. Then did a bit of pruning at the end of the garden while my husband attacked a bush and dug it up to plant a much prettier rose instead. If we have the energy a new acer is being planted where the old one was. Not quite sure that is the right place for it, but I'm puzzled as to where else it could go. I also ordered some more herbs for the raised bed herb garden we're starting this year.
Had the grass cut for the first time this year. He will now come every 14 days, weather permitting. I would like every 7 days but it would be a bit too expensive
Sounds as if you have actual grass. I have an expanse of moss, self-heal, clover and buttercup, with the odd blade. I don't mind; it's green and it's flat. I let the clover flower for the bees, so mowing once a fortnight is about right.
Just now I've been out to retrieve some stuff as the forecast for the next few days is wind and rain (to balance out the fine weather earlier in the week).
Mowing is the order of the day at our place too. I don't think Cheery son will be happy at my suggestion, but it's not a hot day, so I think it's an ideal choice and will keep us ahead of the game!
I've noticed the daytime temperatures beginning to come down slightly, so I might be able to start planting the garden bed husband has created on Sunday. It's in an area that I think needs plants that are fairly hardy. I have some lavenders that need planting out, also I could put in some geraniums that I currently have in pots. It will be a double win in that I get some pots back and the bed will be colourful and contain plants that don't require a lot of fussing over.
Had the grass cut for the first time this year. He will now come every 14 days, weather permitting. I would like every 7 days but it would be a bit too expensive
Sounds as if you have actual grass. I have an expanse of moss, self-heal, clover and buttercup, with the odd blade. I don't mind; it's green and it's flat. I let the clover flower for the bees, so mowing once a fortnight is about right.
It's mainly grass but it's a poor quality grass with loads of other plants in the mix.
Lovely spring days at my home for the last five days. 80 degrees F. I almost uncovered the patio furniture for the season. Silly idea it poured down raining today, and the weather now says rain for the next four days, and today the high is 61F.
Had the grass cut for the first time this year. He will now come every 14 days, weather permitting. I would like every 7 days but it would be a bit too expensive
Sounds as if you have actual grass. I have an expanse of moss, self-heal, clover and buttercup, with the odd blade. I don't mind; it's green and it's flat. I let the clover flower for the bees, so mowing once a fortnight is about right.
It's mainly grass but it's a poor quality grass with loads of other plants in the mix.
We just need to accept we have meadows, not lawns.
Had the grass cut for the first time this year. He will now come every 14 days, weather permitting. I would like every 7 days but it would be a bit too expensive
Sounds as if you have actual grass. I have an expanse of moss, self-heal, clover and buttercup, with the odd blade. I don't mind; it's green and it's flat. I let the clover flower for the bees, so mowing once a fortnight is about right.
It's mainly grass but it's a poor quality grass with loads of other plants in the mix.
We just need to accept we have meadows, not lawns.
Spent an hour or three on my rear in the garden mud, clearing out weeds before they can get bigger. Mr Lamb would have done it, but is famously unable to tell the difference between weeds and good plants, unless they are shrubs the size of a young tree. Therefore I am looking the other way while he bulldozes weeds two beds that have shrubs in them, and I myself am doing the one with smaller plants. He's expecting me to fink out with exhaustion, I know he is.
Mr RoS has decided that he wants to grow some veg in a couple of neglected borders in the front garden. He bought some carrot seedlings last week and, in my absence, planted them yesterday - in clumps, as they came out of the pots they were sown in.
I have explained that as carrots grow they fatten up, and each needs its own space.
He is planning to dig them up, divide the clumps and replant them today. I have looked at the weather forecast this morning, and we appear to be starting a dry and sunny week. I fear for the survival of the carrots.
I cannot be of much help to him. It is going to take all the mental and physical energy that I have, plus his assistance, to restart the containers & raised beds of tomatoes, leeks, climbing beans & chard which I abandoned 18months ago.
Thoroughly cold and windy, and probably wet later. Bought a couple of punnets of pansies to put in pots when hopefully not cold, windy etc. Also a chilli pepper to cherish on a window sill.
Spent an hour or three on my rear in the garden mud, clearing out weeds before they can get bigger. Mr Lamb would have done it, but is famously unable to tell the difference between weeds and good plants, unless they are shrubs the size of a young tree. "
The late Mr. Image once pulled up a row of seedling carrots when weeding the garden. He said he was surprised the weeds were all in a row.
OH YIKES. Yes, that's the sort of thing Mr. Lamb would do. You should have seen him, gazing at the hydrangeas and absently mumbling to himself about cutting down the "dead" stocks--which had visible BUDS on them already! Now I know why we've never had it flower.
I no longer let Mr RoS loose on any area that has actual plants growing in it. In fact, not even if there are actual plants growing in any adjacent area.
His only weeding job these days is to get out the weeds between the cracks in the paved areas - which he hates doing because they are difficult to lever out.
Two or three times a year I re-introduce him to the long-handled wire brush and explain that if he uses that when the weeds are really tiny it is much easier. Unfortunately he doesn't even see them until they become obvious trip hazards.
Have just come inside after gifting some geraniums to Cheery husband to fill up his newly created retaining wall/bed. We had good rain yesterday, so I thought today was the day to get them into the ground. I am not sure how much frost we get in that spot, so I might take some cuttings to create replacement plants just in case of disaster!
He has now started messing around with a watering system, rather than hand watering them in. I have grumpily stomped inside to make a cup of tea.
I was also going to transplant some daphne plants but have decided against it and must go and tell him in case he decides to do that while he is outside. One I think is the wrong variety for the bare spot and another has brown patches on it's leaves. I think it's sunburn, but just to be sure, I don't want to put it near the existing plants in case it is a sign of disease and we end up losing six instead of one.
I've also pulled some weeds this morning with a lot of swearing as one had such a deep taproot that I couldn't get it out and these particular weeds grow along the back fence which is a bit hard to get at and I have to manoeuvre myself around existing plants to get to the spots. I'm glad to have done the job while the ground it soft though and the place does look better for it.
I think it's the first time I've watered the allotment, not for new plants or old ones, but to stop the soil turning into a cast iron pan. As it is, we can't push a fork in, so if it continues, dunno. We'll be buying new plants at Easter, so maybe rain will have come. Come on, rain dance, now!
My garden is beginning to come back to life and I am starting to see where there are gaps and where there are things too close together. I'm hoping to move a couple of hellebores that haven't been doing well, but now seemed to have perked up a bit to a gap where we took out a rather dismal bush planted by the previous owner of our house.
My son and I have committed great evil We discovered a pail full of ancient sunflower seeds, probably at one time intended for birds. Well, we have no birdfeeder, and I don't want to leave the seeds to moulder for another year or ten--so when nobody was looking, we walked around the house, front and back (it's basically a quarter of an acre lot) and sowed handfuls of them in every likely and unlikely spot. I know from childhood experience just what kind of jungle is likely to ensue...
And we have a week's worth of rain going on RIGHT NOW.
What shall I say to Mr. Lamb when he wonders why the house has disappeared under a host of sunflower plants?
My son and I have committed great evil We discovered a pail full of ancient sunflower seeds, probably at one time intended for birds. Well, we have no birdfeeder, and I don't want to leave the seeds to moulder for another year or ten--so when nobody was looking, we walked around the house, front and back (it's basically a quarter of an acre lot) and sowed handfuls of them in every likely and unlikely spot. I know from childhood experience just what kind of jungle is likely to ensue...
And we have a week's worth of rain going on RIGHT NOW.
What shall I say to Mr. Lamb when he wonders why the house has disappeared under a host of sunflower plants?
My son and I have committed great evil We discovered a pail full of ancient sunflower seeds, probably at one time intended for birds. Well, we have no birdfeeder, and I don't want to leave the seeds to moulder for another year or ten--so when nobody was looking, we walked around the house, front and back (it's basically a quarter of an acre lot) and sowed handfuls of them in every likely and unlikely spot. I know from childhood experience just what kind of jungle is likely to ensue...
And we have a week's worth of rain going on RIGHT NOW.
What shall I say to Mr. Lamb when he wonders why the house has disappeared under a host of sunflower plants?
Blame global warming? 😉
Well I do that for our citrus trees. 20 years ago our 3 different variety orange trees started having ripe fruit in May and ended in November. Some are already partially ripe and falling. MsLKK is wondering whether a batch of marmalade needs to be made this month. We have a lodger in our guest accomodation who we will ask to pick and dispose of fallen fruit while we are away.
Our grass needs mowing, so I have to the whipper-snipping (Australian terminology) today.
Hope you got through that whipper snippering @LatchKeyKid, Cheery husband was out doing a spot of weed burning this morning. I cleaned up a bit of garden mess that's been hanging around and managed a phone chat with a friend and one podcast while getting that done.
I have another punnet of pansies to plant tomorrow. I bought them yesterday after lunching with a friend. If I can get the pansies in nice and early in the day, then I'll also move some other things into larger pots and later in the week I'll look at how I'll fill the hopefully empty smaller pots.
I hope your sunflowers do take off @Lamb Chopped - they are so cheering.
Next job - planting the zinnia seeds in the mini greenhouse. I love zinnias so I'm going to have a whole bed of them. Half I'll start in the greenhouse and half in the ground at the beginning of May. See which do best.
The apple tree my son planted for me last year has blossom! They are James Greave apples - so big. I hope the tree knows it's branches are only slender yet!
The James Grieve is a lovely apple - as is the cross Cutler Grieve. When our trees fruit they can really go for it, giving meaning to the term 'laden'.
Just at the leaf bud rather than blossom stage hereabouts.
Our new acquisition for th'lot is a dwarf mulberry, which cost a ridiculous 50 smackeroonis. We saw a big gap, and the inspection is nigh, so that's that. Now to make sure it doesn't die of drought.
I have a dwarf mulberry in a pot. It's not doing a lot at the moment, but I don't think I killed it. Our patio plum tree has a lot more blossom on it than last year, so I hope we get more than the solitary plum which we got last year.
Today we moved a couple of hellebores that were rather crowded out by other things to a gap near another hellebore we brought last week. I hope they all thrive.
Ah mulberries, also a favourite with me. As a child there was a large neighbourhood tree that we kids used to swarm around and pick the fruit. Delicious. Mum was not happy the day we went there in our brand new sandals. Mine were ok after a wipe over, but my sister's were quite stained and Mum was not impressed with us.
I hope once the whipper snippering was done things looked good @LatchKeyKid and you were happy with your efforts.
At the weekend, I repotted some bulbs and also moved a couple of lavenders and a geranium into larger pots and they appear to be recovering well from that. This morning I raided the worm farm for some castings and added that to the fresh potting mix in the now empty smaller pots and divided up the new pansy seedlings into two pots and have watered them in with some worm tea. They look happy and are very pretty in the pots which I've just sat on the garden beds in a semi shaded area for now. Eventually they will live on the concrete slab outside the family room, but we are expecting a couple of hot days and I don't want to stress them and think they need a little recovery time before moving them into their final home over winter. Fortunately the morning has been mild and it was lovely working outside in the sunshine.
I have wanted a patio table under my umbrella, but for a year, I have not been able to fit it into my budget. Yesterday, my neighbor asked," Could you, by any chance, use a patio table, I need to get rid of one."?
Mine are too, in fact the courgettes are begging to be allowed to leave home, but it is Too Soon. Also the peppers, aubergines, and various brassicas have germinated. And coriander. Greenhouse is at capacity!
Wonderful to read all of all the success with veggie growing. I don't know why but I've never had success with them, but seem to be ok with flowers. I think I need to apply myself more!! Cheery husband keeps persisting with the vegetable patch, but I think he's not paying enough attention to the correct times for planting, I think he'll have to work that one out for himself!
We were recently away for 9 days. Pricked out tomatoes, cucumbers and tender perennials had been dutifully arranged in gravel trays in the greenhouse. A battery powered watering system provided 2 mins of drips per day for each tray. Returning home, we were worried that with all the sunny weather (U.K.) everything would have shrivelled up. We were pleased to see that everything had survived - despite sitting in about 2 inches of water!
Mine are too, in fact the courgettes are begging to be allowed to leave home, but it is Too Soon. Also the peppers, aubergines, and various brassicas have germinated. And coriander. Greenhouse is at capacity!
It's definitely Too Soon, we had a ground frost last night here in the balmy South West.
We have just enjoyed a pineapple.
We have had many over the years, but in the last months some rat or other animal has eaten them, even before they ripen.
That's exciting @LatchKeyKid . Being from a non pineapple growing area, I always find it amazing that they can be grown domestically and bananas too. Is there a way to protect them in the way that some people net their fruit trees?
Newly transplanted lavenders and pansies appear to be doing quite well and as I still have some empty pots, I might try to get some more at the weekend. Love to fill up the small pots and also plant around the small shrubs in my large pots. The petunias from pre-Christmas are still holding on, but I suspect not for much longer as the nights begin to get cooler!
I rashly agreed to try to do something with the bit of garden at the front of the church (it’s a modern building on a busy road). So far we have had one morning with five volunteers, in which we managed to tidy up generally, dig a flowerbed alongside the main wall of the church (the main part likely to get any sun) and plant a few odd donations from people’s gardens. I think we will have to dig in some compost though. The soil is not looking good, though everything is so dry it’s difficult to tell. I have been trying to water a couple of times a week but the church kitchen is some distance away and the tap is slow.
This morning I removed 190 dandelion plants after church. There are more there, but the handle of the weeding tool broke and now I have a blister on my palm.
Echoing LC's comment @Aravis, that's a massive job. I've had a lot of problems with dandelions in my lawn and I've been whittling them down by trying to pick the flowers before they turn into clocks. Over the last 7 years I've whittled it down from about a hundred flowers at a time ( helped by son) to picking 4 or 5 every other week. It's been quite the job and I hope your blister heals up soon!
This morning the Cheery husband has taken a second lot of green waste to the waste centre where it will be turned into mulch for sale, I love that system. The added bonus is getting a driving lesson in for cheery soon as well.
Unfortunately while dragging the tarp full of stuff to the car, husband managed to pull out one of our seaside daisy plants. Some people, like my Mum would see that as a good thing, but I was quite cross. I really love them with their multi shaded little daisy flowers. Mum used to call them the plant you would give to your enemy because they can become prolific very easily. I have managed to replant the pulled out bit into a pot. I also trimmed a bit off the top. It does appear to have some tiny roots, so I am hoping it can be saved.
I managed to clean up some fallen camellia petals, two icecream containers full this morning. I love them when they first fall, they look so pretty. However, once they've gotten wet and start to decay, they are a bit bler. So I'm glad to have those gone.
I can practically hear the slurping sounds from the garden as we're having the first rain for quite some time. Temperature back to seasonal norm (10-12°C), a brisk breeze filling the gutters with fallen petals. Scottish Spring as it oughter be.
We have only had a passing shower, so I was still watering today.
I put put 6 surplus courgette plants, to be taken by anyone who wanted them, and they were all gone in a couple of hours. I will do the same in a couple of weeks with some of the peppers and cucumbers that I put in the next size of pot today, and later there will be free aubergine plants. It’s a nice friendly town!
I think one of the nicest aspects of gardening is sharing with others, whether by cuttings, bulbs or surplus plants. It's a wonderful community.
Glad to hear you have had some rain @Firenze, I hope you get some follow-up precipitation as well!
Cheery husband ordered a new garden shed for our back garden, only a small one for storing tools. It was delivered while we were out this morning. Cheery son, bless him, kept checking on it in case of porch pirates - they would have needed to come with a trolley to take it away, or be extremely strong!! There will be a boy bonding event tomorrow as Mr Cheery intends to get our son to help him assemble it. So a lovely quiet day for me - perhaps I will cook a cake for them!
Glad to hear people are getting rain, we are hoping for some in the next few days.
We've had a productive couple of days in the garden. Cheery husband and son worked hard on the shed and it is now up. It fills a dead spot in the garden, looks great on the pavers husband has laid and having the l-shaped garden retaining wall/bed makes the whole area look as though it is no longer an accident going somewhere to happen.
This morning I cleaned up some ivy and Cheery husband moved my potting table into the newly cleared spot. I think it will work well as it's closer to the one garden tap and right beside my worm farm, so I won't have far to move the worm castings each time I want to do some repotting in autumn and spring. The working area is made more pleasant (and hidden) by a lovely camellia beside it which is now in flower and looking very pretty.
Cheery husband and I have each worked on planting out some seedlings this morning. He has added some more dianthus plants slightly in front of our front hedge, so we have a nice bit of colour. We did plant some before Christmas, but not enough to get all the way around the curve of the hedge. So we've filled in the gap at the top of the curve and very happy with how it looks.
After searching high and low I finally found some heartsease seedlings to pot up. Normally I buy a mega punnet of 20 plus seedlings, but I have had to settle for 3 punnets each of 6 seedings each, so I can survive. I was mad though to see mega punnets of everything else, except what I was looking for, but that's OK - perhaps other keen gardeners beat me to them.
I also had a lovely chat with a lady who was buying some violas to put around some daffodis in pots at her family member's place. They have been unwell, so she was refreshing the pots to make them nice to look out at when sitting inside. I thought that was such a cheering thing to do. She found some pretty buttery yellow coloured violas with little purple centres, I hope her person really enjoys them.
I have been working in my new garden office full time for about a month now and all is well. The pigeons on the roof are a bit noisy, more so than the squirrels, but I am enjoying being in the garden with nature around me. Hopefully I won’t find the rain on the roof too noisy but I have a good directional microphone so I shouldn’t have too many problems.
We put on a thick waterproof base coat immediately after the cabin was installed but have only just got round to the main coat. Mr Heavenly has spent today painting it a lovely pale sage green and we can now plan the area around it. We had to remove the main upper garden path to fit the cabin and this was made up of huge, heavy concrete slabs. They are currently propped up but will be moved to create pathways through the fruit area (we live in a terrace with a very long narrow garden and have blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries and rhubarb in a patch near the end). Mr Heavenly plans to build decking around the cabin; a narrow strip to create a new path between the cabin and main flower bed and a slightly wider area in front of the cabin so I can sit outside facing the lawn. There will probably be a small flower bed near where I sit. The lawn needs clearing and re-seeding as it still has the remains of the old chicken shed we removed to fit the office stacked up by the fence.
I have been weeding the flower beds and patio containers. The patio needs a re-vamp but this will have to wait until we have finished the office area.
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Sounds as if you have actual grass. I have an expanse of moss, self-heal, clover and buttercup, with the odd blade. I don't mind; it's green and it's flat. I let the clover flower for the bees, so mowing once a fortnight is about right.
Just now I've been out to retrieve some stuff as the forecast for the next few days is wind and rain (to balance out the fine weather earlier in the week).
I've noticed the daytime temperatures beginning to come down slightly, so I might be able to start planting the garden bed husband has created on Sunday. It's in an area that I think needs plants that are fairly hardy. I have some lavenders that need planting out, also I could put in some geraniums that I currently have in pots. It will be a double win in that I get some pots back and the bed will be colourful and contain plants that don't require a lot of fussing over.
We just need to accept we have meadows, not lawns.
Mine's practically scrub at this point.
I have explained that as carrots grow they fatten up, and each needs its own space.
He is planning to dig them up, divide the clumps and replant them today. I have looked at the weather forecast this morning, and we appear to be starting a dry and sunny week. I fear for the survival of the carrots.
I cannot be of much help to him. It is going to take all the mental and physical energy that I have, plus his assistance, to restart the containers & raised beds of tomatoes, leeks, climbing beans & chard which I abandoned 18months ago.
His only weeding job these days is to get out the weeds between the cracks in the paved areas - which he hates doing because they are difficult to lever out.
Two or three times a year I re-introduce him to the long-handled wire brush and explain that if he uses that when the weeds are really tiny it is much easier. Unfortunately he doesn't even see them until they become obvious trip hazards.
Have just come inside after gifting some geraniums to Cheery husband to fill up his newly created retaining wall/bed. We had good rain yesterday, so I thought today was the day to get them into the ground. I am not sure how much frost we get in that spot, so I might take some cuttings to create replacement plants just in case of disaster!
He has now started messing around with a watering system, rather than hand watering them in. I have grumpily stomped inside to make a cup of tea.
I was also going to transplant some daphne plants but have decided against it and must go and tell him in case he decides to do that while he is outside. One I think is the wrong variety for the bare spot and another has brown patches on it's leaves. I think it's sunburn, but just to be sure, I don't want to put it near the existing plants in case it is a sign of disease and we end up losing six instead of one.
I've also pulled some weeds this morning with a lot of swearing as one had such a deep taproot that I couldn't get it out and these particular weeds grow along the back fence which is a bit hard to get at and I have to manoeuvre myself around existing plants to get to the spots. I'm glad to have done the job while the ground it soft though and the place does look better for it.
And we have a week's worth of rain going on RIGHT NOW.
What shall I say to Mr. Lamb when he wonders why the house has disappeared under a host of sunflower plants?
Blame global warming? 😉
Mutter something about triffid breeding research?
Well I do that for our citrus trees. 20 years ago our 3 different variety orange trees started having ripe fruit in May and ended in November. Some are already partially ripe and falling. MsLKK is wondering whether a batch of marmalade needs to be made this month. We have a lodger in our guest accomodation who we will ask to pick and dispose of fallen fruit while we are away.
Our grass needs mowing, so I have to the whipper-snipping (Australian terminology) today.
I have another punnet of pansies to plant tomorrow. I bought them yesterday after lunching with a friend. If I can get the pansies in nice and early in the day, then I'll also move some other things into larger pots and later in the week I'll look at how I'll fill the hopefully empty smaller pots.
I hope your sunflowers do take off @Lamb Chopped - they are so cheering.
The apple tree my son planted for me last year has blossom! They are James Greave apples - so big. I hope the tree knows it's branches are only slender yet!
Just at the leaf bud rather than blossom stage hereabouts.
Micro greens sown. 🌱🌱🌱
Today we moved a couple of hellebores that were rather crowded out by other things to a gap near another hellebore we brought last week. I hope they all thrive.
I hope once the whipper snippering was done things looked good @LatchKeyKid and you were happy with your efforts.
At the weekend, I repotted some bulbs and also moved a couple of lavenders and a geranium into larger pots and they appear to be recovering well from that. This morning I raided the worm farm for some castings and added that to the fresh potting mix in the now empty smaller pots and divided up the new pansy seedlings into two pots and have watered them in with some worm tea. They look happy and are very pretty in the pots which I've just sat on the garden beds in a semi shaded area for now. Eventually they will live on the concrete slab outside the family room, but we are expecting a couple of hot days and I don't want to stress them and think they need a little recovery time before moving them into their final home over winter. Fortunately the morning has been mild and it was lovely working outside in the sunshine.
It's definitely Too Soon, we had a ground frost last night here in the balmy South West.
We have had many over the years, but in the last months some rat or other animal has eaten them, even before they ripen.
Newly transplanted lavenders and pansies appear to be doing quite well and as I still have some empty pots, I might try to get some more at the weekend. Love to fill up the small pots and also plant around the small shrubs in my large pots. The petunias from pre-Christmas are still holding on, but I suspect not for much longer as the nights begin to get cooler!
This morning I removed 190 dandelion plants after church. There are more there, but the handle of the weeding tool broke and now I have a blister on my palm.
This morning the Cheery husband has taken a second lot of green waste to the waste centre where it will be turned into mulch for sale, I love that system. The added bonus is getting a driving lesson in for cheery soon as well.
Unfortunately while dragging the tarp full of stuff to the car, husband managed to pull out one of our seaside daisy plants. Some people, like my Mum would see that as a good thing, but I was quite cross. I really love them with their multi shaded little daisy flowers. Mum used to call them the plant you would give to your enemy because they can become prolific very easily. I have managed to replant the pulled out bit into a pot. I also trimmed a bit off the top. It does appear to have some tiny roots, so I am hoping it can be saved.
I managed to clean up some fallen camellia petals, two icecream containers full this morning. I love them when they first fall, they look so pretty. However, once they've gotten wet and start to decay, they are a bit bler. So I'm glad to have those gone.
I put put 6 surplus courgette plants, to be taken by anyone who wanted them, and they were all gone in a couple of hours. I will do the same in a couple of weeks with some of the peppers and cucumbers that I put in the next size of pot today, and later there will be free aubergine plants. It’s a nice friendly town!
Glad to hear you have had some rain @Firenze, I hope you get some follow-up precipitation as well!
Cheery husband ordered a new garden shed for our back garden, only a small one for storing tools. It was delivered while we were out this morning. Cheery son, bless him, kept checking on it in case of porch pirates - they would have needed to come with a trolley to take it away, or be extremely strong!! There will be a boy bonding event tomorrow as Mr Cheery intends to get our son to help him assemble it. So a lovely quiet day for me - perhaps I will cook a cake for them!
We've had a productive couple of days in the garden. Cheery husband and son worked hard on the shed and it is now up. It fills a dead spot in the garden, looks great on the pavers husband has laid and having the l-shaped garden retaining wall/bed makes the whole area look as though it is no longer an accident going somewhere to happen.
This morning I cleaned up some ivy and Cheery husband moved my potting table into the newly cleared spot. I think it will work well as it's closer to the one garden tap and right beside my worm farm, so I won't have far to move the worm castings each time I want to do some repotting in autumn and spring. The working area is made more pleasant (and hidden) by a lovely camellia beside it which is now in flower and looking very pretty.
Cheery husband and I have each worked on planting out some seedlings this morning. He has added some more dianthus plants slightly in front of our front hedge, so we have a nice bit of colour. We did plant some before Christmas, but not enough to get all the way around the curve of the hedge. So we've filled in the gap at the top of the curve and very happy with how it looks.
After searching high and low I finally found some heartsease seedlings to pot up. Normally I buy a mega punnet of 20 plus seedlings, but I have had to settle for 3 punnets each of 6 seedings each, so I can survive. I was mad though to see mega punnets of everything else, except what I was looking for, but that's OK - perhaps other keen gardeners beat me to them.
I also had a lovely chat with a lady who was buying some violas to put around some daffodis in pots at her family member's place. They have been unwell, so she was refreshing the pots to make them nice to look out at when sitting inside. I thought that was such a cheering thing to do. She found some pretty buttery yellow coloured violas with little purple centres, I hope her person really enjoys them.
We put on a thick waterproof base coat immediately after the cabin was installed but have only just got round to the main coat. Mr Heavenly has spent today painting it a lovely pale sage green and we can now plan the area around it. We had to remove the main upper garden path to fit the cabin and this was made up of huge, heavy concrete slabs. They are currently propped up but will be moved to create pathways through the fruit area (we live in a terrace with a very long narrow garden and have blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries and rhubarb in a patch near the end). Mr Heavenly plans to build decking around the cabin; a narrow strip to create a new path between the cabin and main flower bed and a slightly wider area in front of the cabin so I can sit outside facing the lawn. There will probably be a small flower bed near where I sit. The lawn needs clearing and re-seeding as it still has the remains of the old chicken shed we removed to fit the office stacked up by the fence.
I have been weeding the flower beds and patio containers. The patio needs a re-vamp but this will have to wait until we have finished the office area.