Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Dull, grey but mild, supposed to be last warmish day and going to seasonal normal [cold] later in the week

2P, odd thing with pots and roots into soil. When wanted, like yours, they wont. When not wanted, like a seedling buddleia, the roots creep out and go everywhere

Spotted first signs of the new season's vine weevil crop 🤬. Some foxgloves in pet poo trough have keeled over, roots gone. Then found one of the Morries fuchsia wilting and getting rootless. The last of my toms are still growing there so I'll pick them later in week, remove the stems & water in some nourishing Jeyes Fluid based Vine Weevil food once the human food is out of the way

The toadstools / mushrooms [Yellow Stainer ]are coming up in my grass since the rain. I took a photo but all i have is a white blob, I can't safely bend enough to get down and get a proper photo

Gardening today, spotted an offer of free P & P at T & M, I'm about to order some amaranth seeds for next year, 89p a packet, one is Fat Spike, the other is a purple leaved jobby. Only 89p a packet so giving them a try for next year.

I'll have a browse before I click "buy" just in case some other must haves are there

twopenny

The grass remains wet so still no mowing.

The lavender pinata I stuck in as a stick continues to go berserk and no matter how much I hack it back sends shoots out of the hardwood 😬 it's choking the rose, Jasmine and catching on the washing. Of course the one in the flower bed has barely made a move 🙄

Cut back only last week

I've to get the cleanings from the gutter full of tree seeds and the Christmas tree that didn't survive the drought down to the recycling and I'm at table tennis this afternoon. I was going to get a phone but may leave that till tomorrow if this is the last sunny day and get on with small table repairs which needs to be done outside.

Dustyevsky

2p: Hope all jabs are relatively painless. 🤕

I got mine, in a moment of madness, not on Clapham Common, but in the overgrown orchard we rarely go in. There, at dusk, waiting for the hens to go to bed, I forgot I was wearing shorts and accidentally waded into a nettle bed to pick an apple. It hurt a lot more than the bee stings, taking hours to fade. 😐️

Farway: Spotted first signs of the new season's vine weevil crop 🤬

Ah, I'm prepared, so it'll be a case of treating the susceptible potted stuff when we next have a naff weather day. That's all the geraniums, geums, and a few individuals, like persicaria. Others, less tasty to VW, will take their chances. I haven't seen any adults for months. False sense of security? 🙁

The seaweed sniffing seers suggest we here have 2 more summer-like days here, but with early mist and fog, like now. The sun was just breaking through, before it didn't. 😣However, the still weather was ideal yesterday for laying out and fixing a 10m x 2m long section of ground cover on the slope north of the polytunnel. This was supposed to have been grassed about 3 years ago, so hopefully, when spring arrives I'll whip off the ground cover and sow some seed into clean earth. Right now, I have about 150m2 of flat ground to prep and sow on the other side. 😩 It's a rough track to the field, or will be, so I'll not be too fussy. 😉

Speaking of fussy, get this for a tidy lettuce bed. I don't need to tell you where. It's certainly not here! 😂