5 Gardening Dairy: Happy gardening and happy snapping ..

[alp]

And there was thunder a few minutes ago and torrential rain now. I do hope it will stop at 10am when the family is coming to view the house again. Now I am boiling coffee in an attempt to make the house smell nice. Yesterday, we went to a house with a bird inside and a fish tank and it's kind of smelt. Friend told me that until May next year, people in this borough are allowed to plonk a shed 3m x 20 foot??? in the garden without any planning permission sought.

I have my heart set on this house, but the owner is very ill. Love it as it is detached and sit on its own plot with space for my plants, but the front garden is only about 50 feet long and part is taken by the road next to it.

Got to hurry up and 10am is approaching. Sorry to have forgotten to post this. So much on my mind. Yes, sunny now. Thank heavens, not very nice to dash in and out in the rain.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Is it the first one?.....very nice indeed.

Fingers crossed for the viewing and that your weather behaves.


Mmmm... can smell your coffee

 

[alp]

Is it the first one?.....very nice indeed.

Fingers crossed for the viewing and that your weather behaves.


Mmmm... can smell your coffee

Well, at least, it's not someone's f***! Need to talk to you later. I'm dreading it. I will be given a humiliating offer AGAIN!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Hope not. Toes are crossed now as well !

 

[alp]

Hope not. Toes are crossed now as well !

Yes, please do! Now, why am I not thrilled! They are here!

 

[alp]

Such a lovely day! So nice and warm in my living room. Haven't been out at all. Just emptying the water out of the various containers! Lovely day! And hope for some more!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

How did it go @alp ?

Rain,sun, rain, sun.........Have stocked up on the compost though....raring to get going now. Will be sowing seeds for 2 gardens next year!

 

[alp]

The man was very pensive and asked me for the absolute bottom. I said £400K. He said to me there was a crack in the ceiling and if it leaked. LOL! That was DISCOVERED in the ceiling of the upper hallway. Such a nice man though despite his active imagination!

I won't sow any seeds as looking at the size of the gardens of all the houses I have viewed, the plants will have to go to an allotment. Saw a bungalow in a quiet spot of a very lousy busy area, but it's bordering AN ALLOTMENT! Er, no, no, no!

 

[alp]

How did it go @alp ?

Rain,sun, rain, sun.........Have stocked up on the compost though....raring to get going now. Will be sowing seeds for 2 gardens next year!

When you go coffee conferencing with your sis or friends, do get some coffee grind. And when you go to Dorset, get some bladder seaweeds at the top of the tide line or it would be illegal! (Er, hmmm!) Then, one layer of horse manure/cow manure/chicken manure, another coffee grinds and another seaweed and let them do their business! Hopefully, you will have GIANT flowers next year.

Sun is out and it's chilly. Now I have to discard all the water in the pots or the plants will rot. Just the though of moving all those plant can give me a nervous breakdown.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Allotments aren't that bad ,so long as you have high fence/ hedging. Admittedly I would rather have the original fields and cows back but if I had to choose between houses or allotments......allotments win.

They are a friendly bunch, hubs has made a few new friends, we have been given some nice pots/ planters and hubs was also given 6 tomato plants this year! We can also add our stuff to their bonfire pile too!

 

[alp]

They are a friendly bunch, hubs has made a few new friends, we have been given some nice pots/ planters and hubs was also given 6 tomato plants this year! We can also add our stuff to their bonfire pile too!

No more foul air for me and Chadwell Heath is not exactly renown for organic air! LOL!

Oh, no! I want to live far away from hustle and bustle! I'm not materialistic and shopping is only for plants, not new clothes or funky gadgets. Mind you, I have to handcuff myself to stop myself from buying any more plants. I'm teetering on madness and sadness as there are far tooooo many poooooots and treeeees and helllllebores to take with me and I am scared that they might not overwinter well. I had to dig up the hellebores and pot them and then sink the pots into the soil. Am I mad or stupid or what! Then there is the fear haunting me that I might kill them. I bought some pot bound hellebores from a certain nursery last year. Last month, I dug them up only to see exactly the same matted root ball THIS YEAR! ! How scandalous I have been and will be..

 

[alp]

Despite the rain, seems a decent day. 13c with sun is better than 9c!

Got to do the rubbish and make myself a hot cup of tea. Need to sort out the back and work out the post codes so that I don't have to run round and round like a headless chicken on Saturday house hunting. A sigh of relief as there isn't any frost. Hopefully, some dahlias can flower a bit longer. Saw some pristine dahlia last Friday in town centre. The vehicular heat must have done the plants some "favour"!

Rubbish time!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning everyone How is everyone today ?

Blue sky and sun at the moment but showers are due to arrive this afternoon.

Hoping to go to the cinema this afternoon , a bit of comedy is just what I need to banish the thoughts of the approaching winter!!

That's today's plan

Have an enjoyable day yourselves

 

[alp]

So you've pinched my sunshine! And an afternoon of fun, leaving me here to stew! Good one! Bluegrey sky, no sunshine to speak of! Off to sort out the back and if I don't get a sensible offer, I will ...

 

[Zenj]

Morning all sunny and blue sky’s at the moment a high of 11c forecast ,going for a brisk walk on the sea front later will need my woolly hat I think.