Well, so far our "growing season" has been terrible. High winds blew the greenhouse over just when my seedlings had started to grow all lovely and healthy and killed them all. D kindly filled it back up with a variety of plants from his giant greenhouse and even gave us some lettuce from P's farm and those plants all died because we went away for the weekend and they didn't get watered. So, I attempted to grow some more lettuce, spring onions and herbs and so far we've got some spring onions and two tiny tiny little seedlings of lettuce appearing. Everything else has FAILED. Oh, and outside, we bought a raspberry tree from Wilkos and that's done NOTHING, I planted some carrots and they are looking healthy and we got a strawberry plant and potted it in a hanging basket. Now this is probably going to be our biggest success as there looks to be a lot of fruit getting ready to ripen, one has started to turn red and His Lordship keeps saying he's got his eye on it. Oh how I will laugh when a bird or a slug eats it just before he gets round to harvesting it!
Today I got up at 7am (this is a lie in for me!) and decided it was time to thoroughly clean the house. I started this at 8:30am and finally finished at 12pm. I'm exhausted, and it wasn't even that dirty! I've bought a brush designed to help comb some of Poppy's winter coat away because she's really moulting at the moment. We didn't have this problem with her last year because this time last year she was still a baby, in fact I think she's probably about a year old now because we got her when she was about 7 weeks.
Look how tiny she was!
6 comments:
Are all your plants in pots?
Try some rocket, that grows like lightening.There is still time to plant stuff so keep going.
As you have found out once you start growing stuff you are tied to the garden till it is ready to harvest.
Good to see the good old English weather is still playing a part helping the local harvest.
Poppy is a very sweet looking kitten, then they grow up and shed everywhere and crawl all over the furniture.
Oh, when she was that tiny she was a tearaway. She was often found on the top shelf of the bookcase! She's a lot calmer now.
I kept wondering what the marks on the back bedroom window were every time we had condensation. suddenly I realised they were poppies paw marks! (I didn't clean the windows as I was waiting for the glazier to replace them).
Have you netted the strawberries as the birds will eat them as soon as they grow red?
mum xx
"The best laid schemes o mice and men,gang aft agley,and lea us naught but grief and pain for promised joy."Robert Burns. and very apt in relation to gardening in particular, and life in general.
Daddy
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