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 !
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 ! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
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