❄️🤍🥶 WRAP THE TAP ! 🥶🤍❄️

                                 🥶🤍❄️  WRAP THE TAP  !  🥶🤍❄️

Armistice Day

                                                 🌿 🕊️ 🌿

Not as cold as yesterday . Dark , overcast and drizzly . 

Last night was a very cold night . We went shopping in the evening and I thought it might snow  . 

The North wind is forecast to be making a come back tomorrow .

I cut down the remaining Cosmos . I can see seedlings germinating in this tub . Sweetpeas , Cosmos and possibly Black Eye Suzies .

                        I pulled out the cloches , fleece and string .

         We haven't had frost but the Dahlias are begining to wilt now .

I have put cloches over the Agaves . The tent pegs are useless , so I'll have to cut some branches to lay over the top to hold the cloche down .

Sad to cut down the Cosmos , but I needed to lash on some fleece to protect the seedlings from the wind .

They'll be slowly growing away in there , cosy and safe until spring 🌿

This one will also need to be weighted down , to stop it blowing away .

Agave salmiana ferox is now the same height as myself 5ft 2" and I don't have a cloche that size . 

   If we get an "Acrtic Blast " or a " Beast from the East "warning I will throw a couple of old coats over it . 

Note to self -

I need to find a couple of old sacks to throw into the crowns of my Tree Ferns 🌴

Musa basjoo  - This is facing North . So I have doubled up on the protection .

I have put a cloche over it inside the double wall of wire fencing , firmly staked in with metal rods . The big heavy wheelbarrow is up alongside it as an extra windbreak .  At the moment one side of the cloche is open for ventilation.... I can close it up if need be !

                                 

             ❄️🤍🥶WRAP YOUR OUTSIDE TAPS NOW !  🥶🤍❄️

I have also wrapped up the outside garden tap ...and I have another cover to double wrap it , should it turn particularly cold .

                                 Rosa The Trumpeter  

                         Always blooms on Armistice Day 

                                     Peace and Love 🕊️🌹🤍

                                                 Debbie x

 

🍁🧡Turning Colder 🍂🍁

The wind is really picking up and the temperature going down .

I made a quick dash out into the garden to gather a few nice vegetables .

Then scoot into the woodshed for some kinding .....Robin followed me !

Our winter vegetables are coming along nicely and I just picked enough for the two of us today .

Ricardo brought in a wheelbarrow load of big logs for the fire and is repairing and painting the shed and hoping that it isn't going to rain just yet !

 I'm very happy with my Jaune du Poitou Leeks .

 I have some Blue de Solaise for later on they are the more cold hardy ones .

 

 My beetroot did quite well this year . I love beetroot ! 💜 Yum ! I especially like them roasted or in a casserole .❤️

I am glad that now the colder weather has arrived the brassicas wont be bothered by cabbage white butterflies that slipped through the netting . I hand picked a large colony of snails hiding under the plank of wood that holds the netting down .🐌

 My Curly wurly Kale has really suffered during the Summer heat and drought....I almost gave up on them , but they are starting to flourish again . I took a few leaves from them .

I just picked a few of the Greyhound cabbage leaves and left the rest to grow on .

Elevenses - toast and marmalade . Then got the fire going .

We'll get off for a walk later on ...... maybe a MacDonalds tea for me and coffee for Ricardo ,and have our picnic watching the Canadian Geese flying off in a wonderful honking and hooting formation from the Boating Lake in Helston . I'm told that they fly off to roost for the night at the Marazion Marshes and that these don't migrate .

   Now that I've got the fire going and we've had lunch , Ricardo is fast asleep in his armchair .

          Maybe we'll just have a cosy afternoon at home after all  . 😊

                          Hope you're keeping warm where ever you are !

                                                     love Debbie 🍁🍂🧡