My gardening diary, ( amongst other things)

ani_26

Piquant wrote: »

You will look lovely by the Bear.

Thankyou xx :rotfl:



Honoured, i'm sure.

ani_26

Here we go. Still available for purchase, i see.









Right. Off to do some (indoor) gardening.

NorthernLas

No rooting powder required as far as I remember, use damp compost and just stick a leaf in about a quarter of an inch. There will be a balance between enough water and too much (causing rot). Less is more I think!

More coldness due all week so keep everything indoors for the moment.

Puppy does not understand temps and is currently lying on the frozen ground remodelling a large stick!

I will keep slug stuff for you!

NL x

ani_26

Thanks NL. xx


Will catch up when i'm less exhausted.

NorthernLas

No probs Ani - stay warm and get some Zzzz

ani_26

Real life seems to be catching up with me, and less time is being spent on the computer, and when i'm not partaking of real life, i'm exhausted. :rotfl:




Piquant, dare i say this? One of my 'new' chocklit plants is thriving / growing. In fact most things are. Is it only a lttle over a week since i planted my first seeds? Using the 'living room' works a treat. It is indeed, now a 'living room.' :rotfl: One chocklit plant, the mixed seeds, columbine, sweet peas, bleeding heart, and the poached egg plants, are now shooting. Definitely works a treat. However, i'm not sure i can 'live' like this, potentially, for the next two months? It's far too cold and frosty to contemplate planting anything in the garden for some time, yet. However, i have a rather magnificent collection of primroses and the things which look like primroses. The name escapes me at the moment. Tiredness has set in. What the flippin eck are they? Anyway, i shall plant these after easter. The garden is alive with all my spring flowers, again, (although they keep getting saddened by frost and snow,) they eventually bounce back. Snowdrops, crocus, primrose, and there's going to be a party of daffs, again. I'm sure there's a feathered friend out there, who likes crocus? Someone or something is digging up my crocus?

NL's cactus is still, well, alive?


I've finally finished the rest of the potting, today. I decided against planting the lily of the valley and the lupins, in the garden. I've decided to give them a fighting chance against the sc's, ( which are already in abundance,) and the frost, and will plant them, when they have grown, somewhat. I've also finally planted the sunflower seeds in the elephant poo, today. I forgot it was supposed to be elephant poo. Ne'er mind. What's the worst that could happen? You're welcome to a sunflower or two, if they actually grow...........:)

ani_26

Pah, everything in my garden is ruined? It was looking so beeeautiful, yesterday. I didn't bring the primroses and primula in, (that's what they are called,) as i had nowhere to put them, and anyway, i don't have the energy to keep bringing masses of 'stuff' in and out. Only time will tell if they survive? B*y weather.

Still, it's like an indoor garden in my 'living room.'

Piquant_2

I too have an indoor garden, about to get bigger when I pot up the seedlings later today.

The snow is finally coming down here, so I've topped up the bird feeders and hauled the compost to the back door, I'll only have to lean out the door for soil now

I was chatting to the girl in the local shop and asked what happened to the seed packets that must invariably fall off the magazine covers. I now have some White Cosmos, Gaillardia, Tomato and Pansy seeds :T:T I guessed right, they're thrown or given away.

I was naughty and as I was in the vicinity of a Lidl picked up a box of the white perennials on offer. They're very tiny and will need bringing on before they can go out. Also a dark red dahlia tuber jumped into my basket:o I'll pot that up later in the week, still too cold for it to start growing I think.

The poor daffs are being hammered by the wind and snow, but they still keep smiling through. I love daffs! I have a pot of white ones in bud, can't wait to see them in flower too.

Piquant_2

ani_26 wrote: »

Pah, everything in my garden is ruined? It was looking so beeeautiful, yesterday. I didn't bring the primroses and primula in, (that's what they are called,) as i had nowhere to put them, and anyway, i don't have the energy to keep bringing masses of 'stuff' in and out. Only time will tell if they survive? B*y weather.

Still, it's like an indoor garden in my 'living room.'

They will survive, certainly primroses are self bred for our awful weather, don't worry about them.

ani_26

Piquant wrote: »

They will survive, certainly primroses are self bred for our awful weather, don't worry about them.

Yes, the shop which isn't a shop, told me they flower in / like the cold weather. Maybe that's why i've decided to invest in so many of them, this year? :rotfl: