End of the Day ☀️

 

                                         Enjoyed our evening walk .

                Then home to watch the sunset . Goodnight and sweetest dreams  xxx

🦋Geranium maderense and more boring Greenhouse Operations 🌿

 Hi everyone ! We're back in the shed . Today's the day to pot on my Geranium maderense seedlings .

A birthday gift from my botanically insane  brother who is so much better at growing things than me . Geranium maderense a very exotic and lovely thing . I was so worried that the seeds he gave me might not germinate , but lo and behold ..looks like they've all germinated !

                                        So many ! I can't believe it !

                       All with a goodly little root system too !

I pricked each one out and potted them up , some with two to a pot .

There are some in the seed pan still germinating !

I think it will be a couple of years before they flower ....I'm good at waiting  .

Then I found a bag of French beans and some Runner-bean seeds that had somehow got wet while I was watering things I guess .....so I sowed them straight away . No idea how long they've been sitting in a pool of water for . Hopefully they''ll come up and my daughter might like to grow them in her garden.

                                        Lovely lot of tasty lettuces .

I  found a tomato seedling coming up in with the lettuces . So that too has been potted up , no idea of the variety .

Then over to the greenhouse .......

....... where the tomatoes are going crazy !

They are getting away nicely now and I am winding them gently around the strings .

However the bench on the otherside of the greenhouse is higher than this one and the cucumbers  are scrabbling away all over the place !

They are also doing really well , flowering and even beginning to produce teeny tiny cumbers already .

So I had to take out all the cacti and succulents and squirrel them all away in other parts of the greenhouse . 

Get out the bradawl and hooks  , scissors and string .

Flip one of the shelving unit thingys on it's side .

Tied the string around some heavy rocks , to place on the ground and then feed the string up through the slats and up to the rafters .

   String tied around rock placed on the floor , pull string up through the bench .

                           Wind the cucumber vine around the strings . 

Gently pull the vines up through the bench slats . Yep I broke this one ..but look there is a little cucumber coming along on it already !

                                           Fiddly !

They were going crazy under the greenhouse bench . I'll be better prepared next year !

                         Ooh ! There's another little cucumber ! 🌿 

I'm glad to have got that task done . It's not perfect but the cucumber plants don't mind .

Next job - the herb garden .

Lemon balm , Thyme ,Spearmint, Lemon Verbena , Tea Tree , Peppermint , lovely Rosa gallica mundi ,Sweet Woodruff , grass , Pink Campion , Hart's tongue fern ,Stinging Nettles , brambles , primroses, more Stinging Nettles , Cowslips etc ect .🦋🐝🐝🐸🐞🐝🪲🐝🐝🐝

                  I don't mind it being a little wild .....but just ...not this wild !

 Meanwhile .......

Husband ran over my washing-line with his ride on lawn-mower .....it's o.k ...he says he's fixed it  .

This one's for Sue who was asking how I do my rose cuttings .

I tend to take rose cuttings in the late Autumn , taking off a non flowering shoot . I stick them into any tub with other things , or like I've done here , stuck in a long pot and I really just leave them and forget about them all through the winter . This one is a couple of years old now and I let it flower . I am delighted with this one . We have very humid atmosphere down here and sometime we get the dreaded Black Spot as you can see here .

                                                  I took off those horrible leaves .

I remove black spot ruined leaves from my roses as soon as I notice it .  This will then help put it's energy into the new growth .

   I might even re-pot this now and label it so that I can remember that it's a lovely red rose .

                                        Today's weather cloudy but no rain  . 

                    That's all fer today folks !  Have a great weekend !  🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Leeks all planted out ! ☁️⛅☁️

    Good-morning ! 6am  Much cooler and more cloud . O.K Lets get on with it !

                                                   Bish !

                                                Bash !

                                                 Bosh !

                                                            🌿🤍🌿      

   I had plenty left over , so planted some in with the Butternuts and Sweetcorn .

  Spares for next door neighbours, if they would like them .If not I'll squeeze them in somewhere .

 Spitting with rain now , but I think it will just pass over . The storms are just not quite reaching us down here on the Lizard .

 In the shed I have sown another two batches of Climbing French beans BlueLake .

Also trying out the propagator as recommended by Jessie on her youtbe channel Jessie at Plot 37 . Do go and check out her and her lovely mum 's videos !⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It is much bigger than I expected and really, really sturdy . I will be re-using this for years to come . Nice deep root trainer pots ideal for growing beans .

                               That's all fer now folks ! Time for brekkers ! 

                                                          🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌    

  

⛅Cooler evening - Prepared the Leek bed

 

Still no rain , but it is now more overcast  and so I got back out there and pulled off all the carboard .

My little friend flew in to collect grubs and I thought I might as well leave it for the birds to enjoy a feast  . I'll plant out the leeks tomorrow .

I found some chicken-wire , just the right amount to go around this bed to keep the bunnies out .

                                                            🐰🤍

                                           

☀️Another Blisteringly Hot Day 😎 Celery Sweetcorn Beans in 🌿

 

Up early ...stood for ages thinking . I need to plant out my leeks ....but before I plant out the leeks , I need to fix chicken wire around this bed and before I fix chicken wire around this bed , I need to clear off all the posts and cardboard  ....

It is so hot . I decided to plant out the Sweetcorn , celery and another pot of Runner beans .

I have planted most of them in amongst the Butternut Squash .

The pig-wire is for the butternuts to climb over . I might plant some dwarf beans in here later on .

The Butternuts are still very pale looking from the rubbish compost I started the seeds off in , but I'm hoping that when we get some proper rain , it might solve that problem . I have sprinkled some  Miracle- Gro around which should also help .

                                    Next up .... celery . 

As you can see , none of the Beetroot germinated , very disappointing . I will get this lot in the ground and maybe try again .

You can hardly see them , maybe I should've waited for them to get a bit bigger . 

 Poor little things ! Once again I am hoping for a drop of rain to settle them in . Celery really prefers moist soil .

Everything is looking better after being watered .

There is the sound of tractors cutting the long grass in the fields all around us . It is attracting the Buzzards and a couple of  Red Kites .

Now don't laugh ! My camera was playing up  !

    It's just not fair ! That Red Kite has something in it's beak .......camera says "no" aaagh !

                     I expect our meadow will also be cut soon . 

My thoughts turn back to the Leeks .

 But it's too hot now . That will be my job for tomorrow .

I'm going to have a flop in the summerhouse with my embroidery and a good book .

                                     Flower of the day  🌿🦋🐝