You can't beat a few forget-me-nots. I have some pretty white ones too.

Busy busy busy as usual Michelle!....Im sure your garden will be a riot of colour. Those forget-me-nots are lovely....need to get some in my garden......need to get lots of little bits and pieces for my garden lol

Forget-me-nots are great for weaving their way through others plants and looking so fresh, like a blue sky above.  We'll be eager to see what you're working on Michelle ...

ya must have been a bee in a former life, :-), forget me nots are a must.

Can't wait to see what you're working on Michelle.

well the colour should be good come summer. the forget me nots are actually gorgous against the orange geum a really lovely contrast. there was a few casulties today on the forget me not front but thankfully not too many, there was so much weeds and grass intertwined that i had to pull some but the majority still look stunning

thats some amount of pots! i have about 5 in total and 5 wall baskets, theirs a fair bit of work in that Michelle.

It looks you will have nice colour full dispaly in summer!!!

So many pots ! you will be busy potting all up.

i will be busy doing them up but i have a big patio area to fill with colour and foliage. it will keep me out of mischeif for a couple of days

Michelle...lol...not only are you planting out in the garden but now you have pots containers and baskets! GOSH!!! I thought I was bad....

I had 12 hanging baskets in my back garden every year...thats the old garden ......and lots and lots of containers and all I seemed to do was water and feed lol...but this garden is so much different. I can actually plant out the plants into the ground so only about 5 containers and only 2 hanging baskets which are actually at the hall door!

Make sure you post up plenty of photos as Im dying to see it all when its done.....well done Michelle!

i sure will jackie i plant alot of stuff out but i also like to have the patio full of plants 

Michelle, you are a bundle of energy as usual. I like your tip about the compost mix. I usually put some of my own garden compost in mine to give that extra body and water retention. I notice Lidl have John Innes no2 potting on compost in which is also quite heavy and could be mixed with bag compost.

anything that gives itbulk and saves on constant watering is a winner in my book

Great idea with the smaller pots acting as wells.

your very on the ball with your toms and their care, good idea with your anti-splash system, would you say that you would buy more garden related products in shops like aldi, compared to going to a garden centre?

Ha ha Andy, I work in a garden centre, and I certainly do. 

Great work Kitty and you will have a great lot of tomatoes and plants .Great idea with the wells.

i buy most of my stuff andy in lidl and aldi cause you couldnt afford to buy much in the garden centres around us. i got 4 teracotta pots in woodies 21cm for 2.49. must get two more for the hostas and then i will rub yogurt on them to give them the weathered look. jacinta do you know how much the bigger ones are. they were in aldi for 6.99 last week and i couldnt get them when i could get them this week they were gone they were a good size too. i done the big bottles for the toms last year but made them too short this year i just cut the bare end of them so that there is a good well in them and just this year i am doing it with the peppers as i didnt sow them last year but this year i sowed orange, red and yellow from my own seed saved from bought ones and then i have the mini bell ones also

thanks kitty, i was just wondering as i usually dont go to aldi/lidl but i think i will keep an eye out and start going when they have what suits :-).

If I knew what kind of terracotta pot you were looking for, Michelle, I could price them for you tomorrow.

I agree with Michelle....I too would use Lidl/Aldi quicker than I would the usual garden centres.........I find their plants and bulbs are superb......and they have a great selection of bulbs.....plus their prices are so much better.

I do use Woodies too, but I find they have become very expensive in the past couple of years (sorry Jacinta :))

Jackie, the only stuff I seem to buy in Woodies these days is either stuff that you might not find in Lidl or Aldi, or well-reduced plants. No need to apologize. :) But I disagree with plants becoming expensive. They have been the same price for at least three years.

i will check the aldi website and see what size they were jacinta and get back to you

Really? I have to say that my local Woodies certainly seem to be getting more expensive. I dont remember Perennials always being €8.99 they certainly have gone up. This is where I find it more so...yes their annuals are good value most of the time...

I suppose what really surprised me the most is  Woodies is situated next door to HomeStore and More and some of the items in HSM are so much cheaper than Woodies and I often wonder how Woodies dont try to compete on price....but thats just my opinion ;)

jacinta the ones that were in aldi last week were 37cm diameter for 6.99. so anything around that or a bit above in size wise. thank you jacinta. i found all the garden centres have most of their perennials are 8.99 and shrubs from 10.00 upwords. i got lovely stuff a week or so ago from irish plants direct, the plants are babies but still worth checking out. i noticed one garden centre in particular is have smaller plants cheaper even horkans had eryisium bowlers mauve and a couple of euphorbias earlier in the year for 3.99

Plants are very expensive and garden centres especially so. I only buy when it is a plant I really want. Got a Euphorbia colibri recently and it wasn't too dear. I find things like vermiculite and perlite really expensive. I but most of my stuff now in Aldi and Lidl and also keep an eye on items marked down in Homebase. I still spend a fortune somehow.

Michelle, I have most of my tomatoes in their final pots. I bought more plastic pots - various sizes but most bigger thatn 30 cms this year but will still try a few grow bags with pots stuck into them. I didn't put the resevoirs in and I'll probably regret it. I will probably take the lower leaves off when they start to grow so that I won't splash the plants when I water with a can.

I can't get the rest in as I still have too many seedlings in the greenhouse and there is no room.

Good luck with yours.

thank you moya. i find that the tomatoes really need alot of water so at least if they have a well to get loads from it stops them wilting and spliting if it is a great success will def do it again. i am literly tripping over stuff at the moment in there with the pots and peppers etc so i have to literly step over stuff to get at the tomatoes in the barrels 

Oh my Kitty where do you find the time and the energy ! Tell me your secret !  Well done  -   I cant seem to get started.

You won't know yourself once you have running water in the tunnel. 

Your dog is beautiful, Michelle.

Wow Michelle....Im flabbergasted lol.......when is the tv going in! ;).....it all looks amazing and you have done so well. Yes your dog is adorable!

Everything you need!

great work being done as ever, everthing including the kitchen sink as well, love the idea and convenience of running water to hand and soaker. you are very determined to have the garden you want, well done Kitty.

Oh the sink will be great and you are absolutlely flying at the moment well done

You've done a mountain of work .... again!  All looking well organised in that tunnel.

the dog is my dads but he is always coming over to me for a bonio dog biscuit then he scoots off. his name is jake. i am not sure about the running water but i will get a pipe that will take the sink water out of the tunnel. i can easily fill it with a bucket or two from the kitchen tap, its more the draining i am bothered about. will ask my neighbour tomorrow as he is a handy man and he might be able to advise me what to do. it will be great if he can do it though. and thank you all it will be great to get out and go weeding soon once this week is over. it should be all ready to go.

Lovely combo of tulips, Michelle.

Yea, the weather is most frustrating. But it's not stopping YOU being busy with other things.

sure am jacinta 

Kitty

Great work and plenty more to do by the sound of things. Tell me what do people with tunnels do with so many plants? I would like one but seriously believe I would have to go commercial then in order to free up space!

An amazing amount of plants there Michelle; you have been working hard and have lots of lovely produce.  Yes, this weather is so frustrating.

Wow that is some amount of plants, I hate the wind more than any other weather and is so frustrating. The tulips are lovely

you expect too much from yourself, and that makes for a frustrating day, you are whipping that garden into shape non stop, you have so many plants too, take a little time out just to relax and dont push yourself so hard, you can only do so much,!!.

Busy busy busy as usual Michelle. You are amazing. Yes weather so annoying. Can't believe its nearly mid May. Feels more like January. 

peter i agree the wind is the most frustrating even if it was warm and wet it wouldnt be so bad. mohober i supply my mother my mother in law and myself with plants. sometimes i could do with another tunnel or even a greenhouse. andy i am my own worst enemy i cant seem to sit for long and if i do i feel guilty. thank you joan alot of work goes into it all but i cherish them all as if they were all my babies. jackie it feels like bloody january with the wind and showers its making.

next year i am not going to do as much but knowing me i will be as bad as ever. it makes me so happy to see them all especailly when i order seeds and the come in the post. i am saving myself a fortune by sowing them cause i wouldnt have the garden i have now if i had to buy the plants.

might have to dig up more of the garden now that would really put a spanner in the works with hubby

beautiful tulips. i am sick of the weather... tunnel full of plants and seedling as well, they should be outside already//. oh we need few good days to sort it.

It's just too awful for words.  I have bits and pieces to go out in the garden but I can't risk it in the wind and rain!!!!  Those tulips are lovely and your veggie plot, Kitty,  looks pretty good too!!!

We are all getting frustrated with being stuck inside with the crap weather, I have loads of stuff to plant out too but the rain and wind so bad here the last few days I cant get anything done, and dont start me ranting about the weeding.............

Lets all take a deep breath and repeat, 'the summer will come' (soon)

some yoga would be good LOL now breath ladies and exhale now calm is restored. if the weather lady or gent tells me that the whole week is a disaster i will scream..........where is me yoga mat