Gardening

Wrong type of herb,
I thought that at 1st, be singing about Mary Jane
But no,
Names his songs after garden herbs,

Maybe there are loads in these ‘shisha’ pipes or whatever people call them.

Planted a lasagne pot with two sets of bulbs , I should have used smaller Snakes Head Fritillaries (but didn’t ) with the 3 x Green Dreams (2928) , instead I went with Tulip Sylvestris .

This is a wild tulip and my hope that as a wild flower the bees will find it attractive


Again for my little bee garden , at the moment the mint is putting on a show worthy of any garden plant and still attracting bees to it

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I’ve been waiting for my wild patch to die off, but just seems to keep going,


And still lots of bees around,

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The bees don’t care about tidiness .

My lawn is an absolute shambles , I am much slower over the past two years thanks to the knees , my letting wild flowers grow in it last year has proved a long term disaster

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More grapes! Another bowl still to pick!

Phil

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The last of the spring bulbs for pollinators have just been ordered


It may be my last year here (very unhappy at the thought of leaving ) but my little bee garden will I hope be a photographers delight and my hope is to take it with me

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10 days off work and managed to get the new pergola built and privacy slats done it’s not finished yet but 3/4 done .

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My kids would love that pool!

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Yep the grandkids love it , it’s a swim spar you swim against an adjustable water current , so you almost stay static in the same place swimming away .

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Better not let my grandchildren see that!:smile:

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Bought myself 12 Camassia for my little bee garden .

Having a half shoulder of lamb (I’m calling it Shawn) for Sunday and a curry on Monday and Tuesday. To go with it bought a small pot of Rosemary from cook’s ingredients at Waitrose.

Price £1.70 compared with about £3.00 in garden centre . Most of my thyme has come in a similar way

Hopefully once planted it will flower in the springtime for my pollinators

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Picked all of the chillies left on the plants before cutting them back for the end of the season. God knows what I am going to do with the plethora of hot ones, I can’t believe how many the plants produced.

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I had a bad year for chillies , so pleased someone else had a good year

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We bought two plant tugs from Lidl……planted seeds from Lidl at 30 p or so. We were inundated……now in the freezer.
Neighbour has a greenhouse, apparently a poor year….go figure.

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My theory is that a lot was seasonal and I mean that the weather was so variable that key aspect to successful chillies was the time of planting

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We grew seeds…….very slowly at first, got fed up. Bought a couple of plants………then inundated.

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These were plants that I had overwintered from last year, but they didn’t take off until the hotter weather in August, then the hot ones went crazy.

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I store them in rape seed oil. They last well.

Phil

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The Acer is looking nice this morning.

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