Goodbye Winter ! Welcome Spring !

 

                       Goodbye Winter !                               Welcome Spring !

I decided to sow another lot of mixed salad leaves .three more Lettuce Red Romaine , Parris island , Freckles , Fennel , lemon coriander , Long Red Florence onions .....these all leaves for mixing up in the salad bowl .

I'm not sowing beans , courgettes, squash , sweetcorn just yet .  Towards the end of the month for those .

     I topped up the bird feeders  and put in a few peanuts for the woodpeckers and my squirrels .

                     Breezy , but we've had plenty of sunshine today .

The Buzzard sat watching me while I tended to things in the greenhouse .

I was thrilled to find this self sown Pelargonium seedling , coming up in another plant's pot . 

              I plucked him out and potted him up .

One happy little Pelargonium . I wonder what colour you'll be ?  

           And a Lemon scented Geranium which needed the next size up pot .

Enjoyed a cup of tea and some nice music in the shed , then I had to make room in the greenhouse for the Tomatoes .

                       Everyone does their Tomatoes differently .   

This is how I do mine . I have never had any success growing them out in the garden . I grow mine in the greenhouse in these black plastic pot/bags . I have reused these pot/bags five or six times now .

 To begin with I roll them down and only fill to about a third with a good compost .

Under the strict instruction of Peter my physiotherapist , I rolled the bag of compost in and then a little at a time filled each bag to about a third full . 

He said I can do it a little at a time and gradually build up my strength again .

 I can squash in four or five of these in this first section of the greenhouse .

                           Like this !   🌿Ooh ! I just noticed that Pregnant Onion ......

                                     She's got a flower coming ! 

I actually left one of these outside over Winter . I wasn't able to bring everything in under cover with my spine injury. But It is o.k. it survived , I'll show you that one tomorrow . It is in the same pot as a Dasylirion .....which also really should have been brought in ...and has also survived the storms . 

I'm going to leave these now to get up to the ambient temperature of the greenhouse ....and maybe wait until next weekends storm passes over ..... well ..they are saying it's going to be unsettled and could be pretty blustery . Or maybe severe gales .  So the tomatoes are looking quite happy for the time being , but I am keen to make space in the shed to bring on other seedlings .

The greenhouse is unheated .  The compost in those black bags will heat up and give out warmth during the night .

Yes Dad if you're looking in , yes that is your old hockey stick . I have no idea how it came to be in my greenhouse !   🤣

              So that's that job done !  

Next ...

                      My washing machine makes me so happy !  🎵🎶🎵🎶😀

              I did a big load of washing and got it all dry on the line !

Then back up in the shed ......

       

The sun still shining in !

Then I cleaned up this beautiful old chair that Ricardo didn't love anymore and now he loves it again !

....... but now ...it's mine ! 

Then we both went for our eye tests over in Helston with lovely Aldo and the lovely ladies .It is just wonderful and we should all be so grateful for the technology they have to give us good vision and to see if there are any medical issues .  Everything looks to be fine . I'm upgrading my glasses for my embroidery work . All good .  💖 

  I decided to bring the Lemon scented Geranium in doors , it can go onto my bedroom windowsill .

   One last thing ....I sowed a pot of Cosmos seeds ....also on my bedroom windowsill .

                     So it's been a busy old day !  Happy busy though !  

                                  Warmer days are coming soon , hang on in there !

                                Thinking of you  🙏🏻

                                                           Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                                                                              Debbie  💐 x

                                                    🌿☀️🌿