Potatoes in Tubs - update 🌿

 Always a joy to see a squirrel here . We so rarely see them . She is enjoying some peanuts .We can see teats on her tummy and she is a little plump . I think she may be expecting or maybe even have a litter of kittens somewhere close by . 🤍

It is so cold today. The sun is shining but the wind is bitterly cold .  I did get a load of washing dry on the line though , which makes me very happy .

Potatoes in Tubs - update  🌿

For quite a while , I thought that nothing was coming up ; but wow look at them today !

     Time to earth them up !         I'm not completely covering them .

  This will do for now.

      I will probably give them another layer or two before harvesting them .

The children will be doing this and learning about where their food comes from .

Robin keeping me company in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture !  ☺️

Other news - It's just been full on , with bringing on the tomatoes , sweet peppers and cucumbers , picking the lettuce and baby kale leaves for salads .

Potting up some lovely new Hostas and getting things ready to move the tomato plants and maybe the Sweet Peppers into the greenhouse  .

 I need to make room to start sowing sweetcorn , courgettes , butternuts and beans in the shed . It is all go now !

 No time for embroidery .....note to self  " make time for me ...yes ME tomorrow .

                            Epimedium x perralchicum

The pretty Epimediums are flowering and I am splitting a few up . I want more !

  

 Pretty red heart shaped leaves  , spread by underground rhizomes  .The dainty flowers last such a long time . 

  

 First buds of the year appearing on the Epiphyllum ! And a Monstera delicosa that I rescued from someone giving free stuff away on their drive ! Goodness me that pot was so heavy and the plant about six feet long . I had a job getting it all into the car .

 It is now in the greenhouse on the side where all my shade loving , rain forest Epies , ferns and jungly plants are . 

              🌿🌿☀️ Very happy plant and very happy me ! ☺️🌿🌿🌿

Musa ensete maurelii are still undercover , I have started to give them a little rain water . I will drag these out and plant them up next month , depending on the weather . 

 Musa basjoo is the more hardy one , planted outside . Mine is only a baby but seems to have come through the winter . No pic...I'll show you tomorrow !

I shall leave you with a photograph of some of my lovely Cowslips  .

 

           Weather -  ☀️ It's been sunny , blustery and blinking cold ! ❄️

            

                                          love Debbie x

                  

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