Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita

@LadyWithAPlan, my garden is really not amazing! 😂😂😂 I have visions and plans but the execution is quite difficult to realise 😉

@Brie, not just me that loves Agapanthus then? 😉

@redofromstart, I have just been digging out my sweet pea, sweet pepper, parsley and nicotiana seeds ready for sowing tomorrow ❤️

@beanielou, why wouldn’t you want me to see your garden? I didn’t start with a big garden - my first garden (I think I am on my 8th garden now?) was literally the footprint of a shed as when the local council re-cemented the back yard of the house we were renting they worked around the shed that was there! 😉 I remember I grew a lot of weeds there and friends visiting the neighbours laughed at me as I didn’t realise … 🤷‍♀️ Actually, thinking back, the plants they were regarding as weeds was King Henry - something that people deliberately forage for these days - not so much in the Welsh Valleys back in the ‘90s I think 😉

KK

beanielou

Mine is err mmm none too bonny shall we say. Lots of weeds & neglect.

savingholmes

Another fan of agapanthus here. So beautiful 

KajiKita

beanielou said:

Mine is err mmm none too bonny shall we say. Lots of weeds & neglect.

You mean lots of wildflowers and spaces for wildlings to live, yes? 🤔😊❤️

savingholmes said:

Another fan of agapanthus here. So beautiful 

This is becoming an Agapanthus Appreciation page! 😂

KK

beanielou

One way of looking at it! 

KajiKita

Ended up clearing and cleaning a window and deep sill in the kitchen that hasn’t been touched for a very long time … <ahem> 😉 A very satisfying job with instant reward - I can see the primulas in the bed opposite the window now, easily from the kitchen 😊 I also took one of the biggest houseplants (appropriately for MSE it is a Chinese money plant) from that windowsill into the potting shed and repotted it in a more stable pot and then finished off giving all the leaves a good rinse under a slow gentle trickle from the nearest water butt. 

Finished potting up the red onion seedlings with my new compost along with two types of shallots. Also sowed parsley, sweet peas, sweet peppers and nicotiana - they are all tucked up on my heated propagation mat with the grow light on timer above them 😊 There is a second lot of white onion seedlings that need pricking out but they are not quite ready yet so have moved them off the heated mat and onto the windowsill where they will will get decent light but it won’t be so warm that they will outgrow themselves. 

Had to clear some dead pots from the conservatory to make room for the potted up shallots, so it’s looking cleaner and tidier in there too. The hyacinths and Iris Reticulata will probably get planted out in the garden next weekend as they will have finished doing their thing in the conservatory by then, so making more room in there for seedlings. Mr KK highly amused that the annual plant takeover of the house has commenced 😊

EDIT: Had a dribble of funds in PP from TCB but couldn’t cash it out as it was less than £1 so sent another dribble of funds over from QM33 (still can’t find my mojo for this!) and therefore OP’d £3.43 and a 76p TT from the joint account. Haven’t added those to my OP tracker yet so don’t know what interest I have saved …. 😉

KK

redofromstart

I do love hyacinths and iris reticulata. No indoor bulbs so far this year, vague  plan to pick up white or blue hyacinths when I go to Lidl as the chain garden centre wanted a ridiculous amount of money and my inner miser kicked in.

Brie

redofromstart said:

I do love hyacinths and iris reticulata. No indoor bulbs so far this year, vague  plan to pick up white or blue hyacinths when I go to Lidl as the chain garden centre wanted a ridiculous amount of money and my inner miser kicked in.

When you're at Lidl look for the "gluck glee" or red clover "oxalis".  I love these with a passion.  They're one of those things you can plant in the worst possible stony dry spot, ignore and never water and every year about June they start to peek out and then you're rewarded with a load of large clover type leaves and dark pink flowers.  OH doesn't much like them so I'm sneaking them in to our new(ish) garden.  

redofromstart

Thanks Brie, the dark leaves yellow flowered oxalis self seeds in my walls so I think it would do well in the front. My front gardens are mainly original cobblestone, topped with tarmac and then a few inches of stony top soil so anything that survives is good. I've added a lot of compost over the years but it's never going to be the pretty English romantic cutting garden that lives in my head. 

KajiKita

@Brie, a ‘Gluck glee’ google only produces images of petulant looking young men! 😂
However, doing the same with ‘red clover oxalis’ produces images of the two plants I bought at the Christmas fund raiser in the chapel 😊 Does this mean I can put them out in the garden - I wasn’t sure if they might be house plants? 

KK