Gardening: Hints and Help!

Bitterly disappointing for Chelsea exhibitors so much hard work goes on so long before the show.

Yes I was hoping growers would offer plants locally, I'd happily pay if we had some in our area. Those reasonably local probably beyond essential travel, if I wasn't on lockdown 😂. They reckon online no good as no drivers or vehicles.

Thanks for the tip for Avon bulbs. I'll check it out.

Too chilly for gardening but then that's cos nothings urgent in mine now 😉

Your garden is looking lovely Bakers, already colourful. Still some things to do in mine, but it’s a never ending task I enjoy. 👍

Made a netting cage to go over the raised bed , with copper tube and rubber balls , that should keep the pigeon off !!

Hope the local tea leafs don’t spot your copper tube! Great idea though!

Managed to get one done. Still need to tidy it up a bit, but is ready to grow 🙂

I’ll be covering mine too. I would have put in the fixtures before putting the raised bed in place, but I don’t have the timber yet, I have to wait another 3 weeks for Wickes to deliver ☹️

OH finally got a run of trellis fencing up today, taken him three days clearing the way to get at it easily. Looks neater than the old cottage style broken fencing! Can grow a rose called Wedding Day on it now, it's already there but hadn't got much to support it. A nice single flowered rambler rose with a slight musk smell, pretty too.

It has warmed up today so the early greenhouse seeds are starting to sprout.

Going to do some swaps with the locals later on, a lot of us have used old seed so it's pot luck what survives. still waiting for new seeds from various companies. OH has got his lettuce seeds, so he's happy. 🥦🌳

Set a sundial too, I got OH one for his birthday, we bought a plinth and now it's all put together and tells the right time. It's in the vegetable plot where time passes slowly! 😊

There is an inscription on it "some people talk of storms and showers, I only count the sunny hours." 🌞

Sounds like you have had a good day brue. Will look that rose up!😁 I have a good garden day as well, more pottering. Grass cut and edged, then I just thought I’d check round see if anything needed support and tying up. Then decided to tackle the large old laundry sink pond. Frogs everywhere! Really needs a good clean out, so have decided to completely empty it, plants, rocks, gravel the lot.

Got most of the emptying done, so tomorrow it will get a good scrub down and clean gravel and the rocks back in. We have loads of gravel, as our back garden and car park area is thick gravel, so I just dump the mucky stuff which cleans up lovely in the rain, and replace with it with clean from the drive! Going to sort out my lovely fish fountain as well, it hasn’t been in use for a couple of years. We moved the sink, and the wire supply wasn’t long enough, so will sort that out tomorrow as well. Weather forecast is to be nice🤞

I went outside to take some pics this morning, good to have a look around at what's coming along in the plant world. The new fencing seems to have held up and the neighbour's cottage garden with the flowering currant is looking like an old fashioned cottage might look like. 🌸🌺🌹

Lovely brue, lots of things coming out now. New fencing looks good.🥀🌺