Gardening diaries - friendly discussions (part 2)

Come to think of it, it's terrible that we are in such a dire need of rain whilst @zenj 's suffering from having too much. @Mark56 What an excuse to indulge yourself! No need to find excuse as i know you're a sensible buyer ..

I went to the shop and right on the brick paving saw 3 snails blatantly show their faces. I dispatched them to meet their maker. Funny enough, I saw a whole petunia plant with a flower growing out of the gap in between my brick paving. AND it has a beautiful flower on, in this terrible heat and dry weather. Amazing..

@Logan I have rain too, and right on cue at 5pm as in the BBC weather chart, but it is a very weak steady stream. I let the rain water already collected in the butts into various containers as I expect a deluge tonight. Can't bear the idea of their overflowing onto the lawn again. It's really is a life-line for my flowers. I chopped off the biggest of my helleborus leaves and dug a tiny ditch- or moat-like dip along my helleborus and dahlias. I learned it from @Verdun - he said he grew the dahlias amongst the helleborus and I am now a dirty copycat!

 

Morning all,
@alp glad that you got the rain, our butts are full now.

 

Hope the cosmos is ok, the slugs and snails will be out. Got to take Barley for his yearly booster. Got to get him in the car.

 

@alp just googled woodash, can't use it on blueberries.

 

@shiney I must come with a shopping trolley ..Want to insert a gif, but they are totally hyper!

@Logan Thank you so much for the hard work. I think coffee grinds might be more useful.

We didn't have rain, not until 5pm and even then it was a very meek affair. This morning, the offensive butt has been leaking again. Went around the whole garden and took whatever that could hold water and after 5 trips, got quite a few tubs around and drained the offensive plastic .. Very annoyed. It was weeing like a little boy, non-stop and on the side, weeping drip, drip, drip.. Little did he know that he was weeping my tears!

Very happy, 6 big butts (at least 220L full to the beam) and 10 various sorts of containers and 2 bin-butts.. Now, I can relax...

 

Went around inspecting garden after several hours of heavy rain yesterday. Even the tall delphiniums have remained unscathed and upright. First impressions are that the garden has lapped it all up. Now, for th return to dry sunny weather
Good morning everyone..got some plants coming today....yippee! :rasp:they will be potted on for planting in the autumn to suit planting plans
Glad you can relax now alp with your topped up water containers

 

Morning all , very happy today as all butts and containers are full

Hope everyone is well this morning .

Can't hang around as hubs has an early app in town and I'm going with him

Have a Wonderful Waterlogged Wednesday!

 

Thank you, @Verdun Wish I lived in Cornwall, even tall dephiniums unscathed. My bamboo toppled flat on the floor.

Why don't you use :rasp: as your avatar, @Verdun ? Save you inserting it every time! I know I am cheeky .. But you use it every single time, like an imp!

 

TONIGHT
GW is on instead of Friday, at 9 pm
:spring:

 

Hi
Sun and cloud but at least dry a few from this morning settle down now to watch Andy

 

By wot do you refer alp? I resemble that dispersion :rasp:
(Could use it as my avatar though......it seems appropriate to my character ha ha :rasp
Love your garden is on too Logan . ....ok, can be a bit soppy but
I enjoy it
Hot here; beautiful day......picked blueberries, blackcurrants, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, peas and spring onions. Deadheaded dahlias, pinks, knips, geums, anemone Wild Swan. Hoping to get lawns cut later.
Pesky blackbird got in with my blueberries .....I lifted net and he flew off. He will be back though having had a taste for them . Ah well, plenty there!