Sowed the first Morning Glory seeds in trays in the tunnel. Seeds collected from last years plants. Then tackled the ever increasing Arum...
@NigelJ so many gallons of parsnip wine!!!!! Amazing. We can't even grow them. We do make wine from our flowers and berries but parsnip....brilliant.
Agree with @ViewAhead and @pete we do need to question the renewals. We have managed to reduce home and contents insurance FOR THE SAME COVER by...
Well after years at "scratching" the seeds to open up the seed coat, gave up some years ago and germination has been brilliant each year. Then...
@strongylodon and @LunarSea Fantastic photos. You must have great mobiles and/or carry around a camera in your back pocket! Brilliant and lovely...
Watered in the tunnel. The pea beans are germinating really well but the leeks are slow. Pak choi, radish and spring onions doing well. The...
As usual not a great photo taken through the kitchen window with a basic mobile but this year the Beurre Hardy pear in the orchard is covered in...
Many decades ago we planted outdoor grapes. Most of them continued to fruit really well but they were for wine and not eating. Then one stopped...
We have sown seeds that were "out of date" many times. Germination hasn't always been 100% but then we find that in date ones often don't as well....
When we did our willows we did them in the Autumn and were told to strip of all the leaves as @Adam l says to reduce transpiration. Still worth...
A male green woodpecker in the orchard opposite the kitchen window for a long time. Pulling at the grass supposedly to get at the ants. Orange tip...
Young bays are slow growing so maybe yours are just biding their time and will as @Pete8 says will start showing new growth now with the warmer...
Planted tomato plants in the tunnel. Sowed yet more carrots again in the tunnel. Last lot no germination. Sowed some melon, zucchini and french...
Sowed some pea and more broad beans in pots in the tunnel. Then weeded under the outdoor grapes. Planted out some of the broad bean seedlings from...
"One swallow does not make a summer" but could 2? Saw 2 this morning while we were getting some cider from a farm. Lovely sight and lovely morning.
@Michael Hewett Agree with you about the primroses this year. Our garden is full of them and we never planted any of them. In the dusk they seem...
This morning in an hour....a buzzard soaring over the garden, a sparrowhawk that nearly took our heads off and then a red kite flying very low...
Yesterday (sorry not today) we had the garden room door open as the sunshine was so lovely. But even more though was the blackbird that...
Sowed beetroot, spinach and swiss chard outside this morning. We went to cut back the verbena but had to tackle the ivy growing on a nearby pear...
I tend to agree about leaving it but maybe a repaint as suggested. If you are still wanting a climber then Clematis armandii is evergreen and...
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