Month: January 2014
is making me salivate for more of them!
I did say I wasnt going to Lidl today so that I wouldnt be tempted to buy any more but now, reading of everyone’s purchases, my resolve is weakening!
I will just have to be satisfied with this picture of some in the shrub border taken yesterday!
This has been lying unused in my moms for awhile now so the other day i decided to take it out and powerwash it down to bring home. Didn’t have a compost bin before so will be great to make some of my own. Just cuttings of plants and the likes going into it. Sometimes its just a simple thing like this makes a gardener happy well me anyway.
The rain was coming down in sheets this morning. Of course the heating didn’t come on so I had to go out in the rain to manually switch it. Then a little later I was out again to switch off the heating in the greenhouse. And then, doing a little potting I remembered that I’d left the polystyrene in the greenhouse so had to go out in the rain a third time!
Well it’s yucky and the last day of January. Good riddance, I say.
I’ve added a few photos to my January album but it’s mostly house plants.
I’ve been meaning to post a journal about these work gloves for ages, that I was given by a friend.
The are serious work protection gear. The main point, is they are classed as ‘needle’ proof. What I found with them was that when cutting back brambles on the enbankment I can easily hold the bramble tightly as I cut etc and not hamd done.
They could well be worth the investment (don’t know cost, sorry), very tough so would be long last in garden use. Sadly only come in two sizes 9 & 10 (L & Ex. L).
For people who have wildish boundaries, I can recommend then highly.
Prenco Katz Glove En388
He also likes porridge oats and bread.
Following on ClaireE’s idea of photographing the garden month by month, I have add this months album. I will be doing this at the end of each month, we all should have very interesting Albums by the years end.
Claire a great idea well done ;-))
Weather is a little different in some areas.
Have a plan of what you want to grow in the veg garden this year,
Only grow what you need.
Have all seed potatoes on egg trays etc to have them develop new growths well.
Top dress any over-wintering crops eg onions,broad beans,sp cabbage.Growmore.
Catch up on any jobs missed eg wash to green h,tunnel,canes,pots.
Final month to move ruby[Rhubarb.]
More peas and broads in mild areas.
Carrots [Early N] coldframe.
Bulb onion,sp lettuce,heat.
Parsley to soil unless cold and wet.
Spinach indoors
Beets and turnip [PTM 2 seeds to each pot.
Still a last minute dash for garlic cloves.Like a quick touch of frost early on.
Tom,cucu,aub,heat [vital.
After spotting the trays from Aldi in last Saturdays daily paper,i called upon them to have them ready for the morning in the greenhouse.Prepare them there,and back with them to the heat of the kitchen window.
Might start some tomato and aubergine seeds.As the trays were my main purchase,i wanted to get them into use as fast as possible.Up on 20 sowing areas in each one.
I love looking back at photos of my garden .This one really stood out to me .I just got this feeling ,i would love to be sitting on that seat,enjoying my garden,enjoying my beautiful countryside
