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Brie

I have the pot to outpot all pots sitting in my car port.  It would take about 2 or 3 humongous bags to compost to fill and I would love to fill it with tulips etc but I know the birds and squirrels would just dig them all up.  And it's in the carport as it's on it's way to the local garden charity place in case someone else is ambitious.  

Meanwhile glad you've got an excuse to think beautiful thoughts of spring flowers.

redofromstart

Can you pad the bottom half out with something Brie? I use packaging materials.

SandyShores

redofromstart said:

Can you pad the bottom half out with something Brie? I use packaging materials.

I was going to say that too   I haven't done it myself but I see it on f@cebook videos where they pad out with cardboard or sometimes they put in another pot upside down and stand a smaller pot on top of it.  So there's planting around the edge and then a taller pot in the middle.  I've seen a few where the've put one of the solar fountains in too.  Love to see all the ideas.

KajiKita

I have had a lovely day today 😊

Mr KK started by replacing the remaining double glazed units that had failed and we bought new for. He needed an assistant to ‘catch’ the panes on the outside so I was running back and forth doing that. As we had to disassemble each window sill to make access three of the ground floor window sills got tidied and cleaned! 😉😊 Got two loads of washing out on the line. 

Wrangled the toscos delivery in the midst of the above and then had breakfast. 

Wandered out to the local plant centre - bought violas to top bulb pots and some veggie plants to plant in the greenhouse over winter along with two bags of compost to set me up for next spring 😊
Then drove on to the lethal mega garden centre …. Lethal in the sense of far too easy to spend lots of money … 😉 Found tulips and crocus for my pots. Got tempted by treated hyacinths to grow for Christmas (pink, blue and white), found a little tray to under the cacti that came home from work with me, some shallot and garlic bulbs (all of the garlic packs were in pretty poor condition I thought) and a diary for 2025 … Oops! 😬 

Came home and fed Mr KK and made a completely different lunch for me. 

Started clearing out the greenhouse. Saw Mr KK was starting to flag when clearing all the hazel he had chopped back so helped him with that. Whilst doing so saw next door neighbour (who is an industrial electrician) and took the chance to ask him about wiring in the latest defibrillator that the PC has acquired. He said yes, but we need a site visit to understand the scope of work. I will email the (new! 😊) PC Chair to start coordinating that. 

Finished clearing out the greenhouse and harvesting what was worth having. Realised that it was really rather greeeeen so did a ‘quick slosh over’ with the hose and the washing brush - a lot brighter in there now. Hit 12K steps today - most exercise I have had in ages! 

Found a possible (cheap!) cat basket on FBMP so messaged the seller and should be able to pick that up tomorrow. Paid off my CC for the month. 

Then an early shower whilst Mr KK cooked and we watched Str1ctly 😊 

KK

redofromstart

That all sounds lovely and productive.

Brie

re the pot - yes I've padded out big raised beds with cardboard previously but this is one I just want to be rid of. so off it will go!!!!

KK - glad you had a productive day!!!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, that sounds like an excellently productive day,  well done!

redofromstart

Thinking of you today - hope it goes as well as it can.

Humdinger1

You'll pull it off with style @KajiKita xx

skint_spice

Hope your day goes OK