🌿Beans 🫘🫘🫘🌱🌱🌿🌿

17th April -Started off in the shed . These propagators are brilliant by the way !

Hardening off outside ,by day, for a few days .

Planting out -12 May -  Ready Steady Go !

I'll start with the Runner beans , they really put on some growth when I started putting them outside to acclimatise .

    Ricardo did a great job tidying up the labyrinth !  

I'm growing Super Marconi Runner bean  this year . Look at those roots ! 

                                 🌿 Runnerbean Super Marconi 🌿

                               🌿  Climbing bean Blue Lake 🌿

                              Strawberry in a hanging pot 

Then went in for some breakfast and a nice cuppatea  🫖☕ I still have more to plant out . 

  Not sure about this bed yet , I might change it around a bit and I must put some chicken-wire around it . 🐰

Dwarf beans , more climbing beans , peas maybe . I've done some peas in a hanging basket this year . I need to make space for my Leeks , Beetroot and a few Sweetcorn .

 The potatoes in tubs are coming along nicely over there ,by the pink wheelbarrow in the back ground .

      

   ...and now there's some space on the bench in the shed to start sowing some flower seeds .

   Not sure I will be able to get going again now I've stopped ! 🤪

               See you later !  Love Debbie 🦋 x

Epiphyllum "Yellow" flowers opening

 

At last ! Epiphyllum "Yellow" is opening her beautiful flowers .  

The outer petals are yellow and the inner ones are ivory . Like Cornish Clotted Cream .

They benefit , colour wise , from having a cold winter .They get a better or much stronger colour .

 I keep them dry through the winter months .... only covering them with fleece or sheets of newspaper if there is a serious freeze forecast . 

Three more buds to go , although I think that small one might drop off . 

They will probably be fully open tonight . Moth pollenated 🦋

I will take some cuttings after it finishes blooming . 

All my Epies need a good tidy up .

                 Made my day !   love Debbie 💐 x

                

                         

Our Evening Walk - Along Mullion Cliffs ⛵☀️

      ........and then .....

      We saw this Slow Worm basking in the sun in the middle of the path .

   Oh ! Wow !  💚🌿

Decided to move him to a safer place as there are very often cyclists and people running along this way .

 Remembering that one should always pick a Slow Worm up gently from the middle . If you grab the tail it could come off .

  Oh ! Wow !           

 It's o.k. It's o.k. !  It's not a snake , but a type of legless lizard . These don't bite !

                           Wow ! He made my day ! Look at this !

  

 So beautiful ! What an honour to see this beautiful golden creature close up .

I gently put him down into the bushes and grass along the path , close to where found him .

   Eight year old me , would have wanted to take him home with me ! I grew up living near and playing in the woods . 

   Not sure I ever grew up , but this time , I let him go . 🌿😊🌿

                                What a lovely end to the day !

                                   love Debbie x