On Thursday I went full on Good Life- donning my best Felicity Kendall dungarees and purple gardening clogs [and thermals underneath as it was freezing outside] and did some Serious Gardening
I've planted lots of seeds, now on the kitchen windowsill, and repotted a few bits and pieces. I trimmed the geraniums in the mini greenhouse, all 3 seem to have survived the winter
and two of the cuttings I took before Christmas have flourished and are now in larger pots on the bathroom sill.
I put a large bucket over the rhubarb. It is currently looking rather pathetic, but maybe this will force some sweet pink stems...
The two troughs of bulbs by the oil tank are showing green shoots. And I've tidied up my herbs.
I was given a few snowdrop plants on Tuesday, I've planted them in a circle round the pear tree. I hope they will flourish there in the grass. These came from next door - the property has been empty for well over a year. The sale should have gone through this weekend. My neighbour's daughter came to visit for one last time, and borrowed a trowel to do a bit of gardening - she returned the trowel with the snowdrops.
And after all my gardening activities, Bob kindly cooked lunch - then we popped over to Foulsham, to hang a banner outside the chapel. Lent is fast approaching!
*older readers, who can remember a time before "Strictly" may recall Victor Sylvester, who came on TV and taught us to dance the foxtrot, and his catchphrase was slow, slow, quick, quick, slow...
I'm still clearing from last year! won't be sowing seeds for a few more weeks as it gets too complicated when nights can still be really cold.
ReplyDeleteI have only done 'indoor' sowing. Far too cold here for outdoors...
DeleteI remember Victor Sylvester ho hum! Snowdrops do well in a lawn, they seem to like the grass. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteJust arrived home after 24 hours away - there is snow all round my snowdrops!
DeleteSounds like a busy morning of gardening and sowing. Your garden is going to look wonderful come spring. :)
ReplyDeleteHope so
DeleteI hope you get some yummy rhubarb. Mine looks very dead at the mo!
ReplyDeleteMine looks quite sad, but I hope it will revive
DeleteWell done, Barbara, in getting all the garden prep work done. Seriously, Ang, it must feel very satisfying to have started 2025’s produce. Raining again here so no gardening today. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThat picture is from the Harvest episode, where Tom was incapacitated and Barbara had to do it all! I am glad I did it all on Thursday SO extremely cold and SNOWING here right now
DeleteIt won't be long before those snowdrops come up! I do remember Victor Sylvester and his foxtrot mantra.
ReplyDeleteHe was so dapper, wasn't he
DeleteWe were going to have a bit of a garden clearing session today, but then it started raining, and we gave up on the idea. It didn't take much to persuade us.
ReplyDeleteI am a bit of a fairweather gardener too
DeleteMy snowdrops are in the lawn and they come up each year.
ReplyDeleteThank you, that is an encouragement
DeleteI can't wait for my raised beds to be built, as I'm getting quite a collection of plants looking for a new home. I seem to remember the pancake banner from past postings. Xx
ReplyDeleteNew Raised Beds in your new garden, what a treat! Yes it IS the same banner, but I just made a new laminated sheet with this year's date to stick on the bottom corner. All the rest is the same
DeleteI can't wait to see how the seeds do!
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ReplyDeleteThe weather is still a bit hit and miss here so no seed sowing here yet. It is a good idea to get some seeds planted indoors so I could get started on that. Thank you for the nudge.
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