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November planted as sets. The sets are dug just prior to that and started from seed about 1015, thus the name.
What did you do in your garden today?
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Yesterday watered the blueberries and beetroot seedlings also did some pruning to the currant bushes.
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Weed pulling, organizing, cutting a way spent stuff.
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Today all of my plants finally went outside!
Courgettes and red onions in the 400ltr grow bag. Erecting 2m wig wam for the runner beans was tricky but I'm pleased with the result and they seem sturdy!
Around the base of the runner beans I've put my single pots. Chilli's, sweet peppers and a few flowers I've attempted this year-forget me nots and milas flowers.
Finally, the strawberry pot and the mini herb garden I've made at the side of the large grow bag.
As a novice with no actual earth in my garden I'm proud and really enjoyed this process! I'm hoping if I have a good season I might attempt something in autumn/winter this year. I was too scared last year as it was my very first year gardening.
Courgettes and red onions in the 400ltr grow bag. Erecting 2m wig wam for the runner beans was tricky but I'm pleased with the result and they seem sturdy!
Around the base of the runner beans I've put my single pots. Chilli's, sweet peppers and a few flowers I've attempted this year-forget me nots and milas flowers.
Finally, the strawberry pot and the mini herb garden I've made at the side of the large grow bag.
As a novice with no actual earth in my garden I'm proud and really enjoyed this process! I'm hoping if I have a good season I might attempt something in autumn/winter this year. I was too scared last year as it was my very first year gardening.
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Today I might do something crazy. have a mound of soil , and have some potatoes that are rooting, think I might plant them on the mound and see what happened. LOL.
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Sowed some more wallflower seeds in the toilet roll tubes, done 240 so far.
Yesterday I cut the grass. Otherwise, the photos show different roses from David Austin to Kordes and others. And pears and apples of different kinds.
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Today I am off to Moorfields to have a fitting for an artificial eye, but yesterday I got my mange tout planted out , prepared a piece of ground for the climbing French beans, and went through the greenhouses taking side shoots out of the tomatoes and tying them in to their supports. Dug out a corner of the small greenhouse and replaced the soil with a nice rich mix, then planted a cucumber and laced up a support for it to grow up with wool, and watered. It drizzled on and off all day yesterday, nothing much, but it rained properly last night, YES !! At last.
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As you can see, from the view out of our French windows, there'll be no gardening today.
Anyway it should have been a "golf day." But I didn't bother.
On Monday's and Fridays we play in a "roll up." Whoever turns up for the first of several tee-times always booked, iare randomly split into teams of three-balls, four-balls or a mixture of both, depending on the numbers.
Usually there. up to a dozen. OnBank Holiday Monday there were twenty-one!
Everyone puts a pound in the kitty, the team with the best score shares the pot. You won't believe how competitive this makes us.
If you don't want to play you just don't turn up. That's acceptable. You don't have to cancel. I won't play on Mondays or Fridays if it's raining before 9.00 a.m. Some of my friends will play in any weather if the course is open.
Wednesdays are competition days. I play regularly with the same two friends at the same time every week. You have to turn up for competitions, as we did last Wednesday, but it was raining when we arrived at the club. So we all agreed to not bother had a coffee in the pro shop and then went home.
Anyway it should have been a "golf day." But I didn't bother.
On Monday's and Fridays we play in a "roll up." Whoever turns up for the first of several tee-times always booked, iare randomly split into teams of three-balls, four-balls or a mixture of both, depending on the numbers.
Usually there. up to a dozen. OnBank Holiday Monday there were twenty-one!
Everyone puts a pound in the kitty, the team with the best score shares the pot. You won't believe how competitive this makes us.
If you don't want to play you just don't turn up. That's acceptable. You don't have to cancel. I won't play on Mondays or Fridays if it's raining before 9.00 a.m. Some of my friends will play in any weather if the course is open.
Wednesdays are competition days. I play regularly with the same two friends at the same time every week. You have to turn up for competitions, as we did last Wednesday, but it was raining when we arrived at the club. So we all agreed to not bother had a coffee in the pro shop and then went home.
I lived in Spain back in 1991 or thereabout and I used to golf seven days a week, unless it rained, or I had some other operational commitment. I was stationed with the U.S. Navy in Rota, Spain and my workload was extremely light. By 9 AM each day, I had all of my daily routines done and I would tell Maintenance Control that, if they should need me for anything, call my beeper, and I'd head off to the golf course for 18 holes. I never really got any better. I just loved walking the course and enjoying the outdoors. I had a tan to die for though. LOL
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Reminds me. Our eldest son worked for an American bank, he was responsible for locating sites and the setting up of new branches across Europe. One site was a new branch in Norway. There was a delay in getting the phone lines in. So he called the head of Telenor, the company responsible. During the conversation, the connection kept drifting in and out. When he asked him what was the problem,. the Telenor guy said; "It's probably because I'm skiing at the moment."
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Reminds me, in the mid sixties I worked in Majorca as a water sports instructor, all day every day on the beach or in a boat.
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I've really done nothing much this week at all, apart from feed the birds, squirrels, the hedgehog and a few jobs around the house.
I woke up on Monday morning with "a sprained left wrist." Not really of course, but I may have slept on it and it might have inflamed the tendons. It happened before about six months ago. It was extremely painful and couldn't so much as hold as kettle in that hand.
There was stuff I had to do, but I had to use the other hand. Being left handed, like many, I can use my right hand foor most things.
So I did what I did last time. Soaked a hand towel in water, put it in a freezer bag and stuck it the freezer for about half an hour. Then spent as much time as I could spare, sitting with my wrist resting on the towel on the arm of the chair. The towel has been in and out of the freezer many times in the past four days.
Like last time, I'm now almost back to normal. Not good enough to play golf tomorrow, I'll leave that until Monday. But I think I'll be able to vac up the huge amount of wisteria blooms on the patio and mow the lawns on Sunday.
I woke up on Monday morning with "a sprained left wrist." Not really of course, but I may have slept on it and it might have inflamed the tendons. It happened before about six months ago. It was extremely painful and couldn't so much as hold as kettle in that hand.
There was stuff I had to do, but I had to use the other hand. Being left handed, like many, I can use my right hand foor most things.
So I did what I did last time. Soaked a hand towel in water, put it in a freezer bag and stuck it the freezer for about half an hour. Then spent as much time as I could spare, sitting with my wrist resting on the towel on the arm of the chair. The towel has been in and out of the freezer many times in the past four days.
Like last time, I'm now almost back to normal. Not good enough to play golf tomorrow, I'll leave that until Monday. But I think I'll be able to vac up the huge amount of wisteria blooms on the patio and mow the lawns on Sunday.
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Welcome to the forum.
What are you propagating? I always do too many of things, and the missus hates it when I put things out the front as she thinks people are coming to see us. Never mind, she is away over the weekend so there will be a good collection of lavender, lobelia, and various vegetables out for the neighbours to choose from
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Done nothing other than take these photos avoiding the "scruffy bits."
Hopefully, my wrist is feeling better, so I can get into the garden tomorrow and more importantly, be able to get back to playing golf on Monday (weather permitting).
The white wisteria on the garage pergola.
The "rose patio."
Our sambucus is starting to flower.
Some contrasts in rhodos. The mauve ones are those I "rescued" fom Aldi a couple of years ago. They were very cheap as they were dying through lack of water. as the staff aren't allowed to water them. "'elf n' safety."
Hopefully, my wrist is feeling better, so I can get into the garden tomorrow and more importantly, be able to get back to playing golf on Monday (weather permitting).
The white wisteria on the garage pergola.
The "rose patio."
Our sambucus is starting to flower.
Some contrasts in rhodos. The mauve ones are those I "rescued" fom Aldi a couple of years ago. They were very cheap as they were dying through lack of water. as the staff aren't allowed to water them. "'elf n' safety."
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