Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

Lovely photos 😍

It’s another hot and sunny day here - forecast to be like this all week and into next week 🥵

This is a photo of some of the carp the previous owners left behind... it’s about 3’ x 5’ ish and is a mound of soil, stones, rocks, ants... we’ve already removed numerous disintegrated plastic bags, roof tiles, huge rocks etc from the pile last year... 😕 DH weeded it yesterday and I’m planning on using some of the soil and stones as infill elsewhere in the garden, but what gardening implement to use?? I tried using a spade to move it yesterday, but it’s impossible because of the number and size of the stones and rocks 😕 please can anyone suggest something else I can try?? 

YoungBlueEyes

Well I only popped on to say it’s just had a quick weak sprinkly go at raining (raining!) but look at all the lovely photos  

Thems some buttercups nothing like that here, sadly. 

Here’s me roses, while I’m on phone I can do pics all in one go. Buds yes, a few of :sm:smiley:

I don’t know about your pile pp. If it was me I’d pull my big girl pants up and sift through it to get the big stones etc out, then crack on with my shovel…. 

If I proper person says something different do that instead like

pink_poppy

Doh, I never thought of a shovel 🙄 thank you, I’ll put that on the list. We’ve spent hours on the mound already, picking out the big rocks, but there are ants... lots and lots of ants... 😱 that’s where I took the video of them all running around frantically moving their egg things further underground... 🤢

Your roses look very healthy and look at the size of the bud on your top pic - I bet you can’t wait for them to open 😀

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh ants, I hear ya 

In which case, still with your big girl pants on, pull rubber gloves on tight and secure with elastic bands, and do your trouser bottoms too! 

My roses - It’s a bit to tell without scale but they’re only wee. The biggest buds are slightly bigger than 1/2 my thumb. But they’ll get there, and yes I’m giddy for them to open 😁

YoungBlueEyes

Oh and maybe have a boiling kettle ready to pour down the ant runs. Mindful of where else it’ll run to though… 

ArbitraryRandom

If you've got a long handled fork, you could dig out at least the bigger of the stones into a handy barrow? (by the way, is there a word for a big fork vs a small one - like trowel and shovel?)

As a good plant parent, today I decided my little squash seeds would benefit from a field visit. Still under glass, so the little dears don't get a chill.

I'm hoping they'll decided the world is warm enough to start poking their heads up soon. 

Farway

Be careful with the seeds under the jar in sun AR, seeds can get too hot & die anyway, killed by kindness!

Planted out the cucs as hoped, plus watered as hoped.

Something has nicked a foxglove I planted at the front the other day, just a pot grown foxglove sized hole left in the pot soil, very odd . I have loads more, so not a problem, replaced with one of the spares

Noticed how pretty my not weeds wild flowers Red Campion looked in the sunshine at the front, so took a picture

ArbitraryRandom

Thanks  

I waited until after lunch and it's bright but not that warm out today really so hopefully they'll be okay. 

Don't tell them... but I needed them moved so I could clean the window

YoungBlueEyes

Love your glass jar (cloche?) Arb, I wouldn’t mind one of them meself  

Have you squirrels too Farway? I can send you some jackdaws..? And I like your Red Campions, don’t look weedy at all 

-taff

@pink_poppy try a rake too? I might just give up myself and make a small rockery feature if you really can't do the moving of stones.

I've had a productive weekend buying everything in sight in various garden centers, including a choisya, never had one before, a pot with fatsia in it, but there are so many stalks growing, I split it in two so I have two plants now for 4.50 which I thought very bargainous. Got some daisy type plants, one bushy with sliver ish leaves [can't remember name] other rhodanthemum Marrakech, a dahlia, Happy Days Purple, a pink geranium, Wargrave Pink and some more scabious, which I have also sown but I am impatient. I'm doing my best to cover every inch of earth this year.

I also have more fennel, spinach and rocket to sow, the tomatoes need to be put in their final pots, the cucumbers can be potted on and the hungarian squash look to have germinated seemingly overnight. My greenhouse overfloweth. And the basil is coming up too. There is some lettuce to poke out and some chard to do the same to but I can't remember which is the chard and which is the beetroot..doh! The rest of the celery has been planted out and the filched wild garlic [ from someone's house/woods] have been planted out too. They have two chances, all of these things, live or die. However, I will sometimes attempt to revive things if I like them so I uprooted a geum from the front garden that's struggling a bit and have put it in a pot for now. It's weird one, blooms orangey yellow ish then fades to pinkish.