We have many bees on the wing now but haven't seen any butterflies yet...then will do tomorrow!
Sorted the stored apples (loads this time needed to be out for the birds). Then we tackled the bay tree with all its suckers.
Which Daphne is it?
Sowed some sweet peas and hollyhocks in pots and then back in the garden room. Harvested some more leeks, some better than others but still ours.
Yes but you need to make a wigwam with them and then twine some string between them so that the glories can cling onto them as they climb.
We were given some seeds about 6 years from a neighbour. She told us that she doesn't sow seeds until May. We started them off earlier in April...
@NigelJ Thank you for reminding me to do our sweet peas. Had saved seeds from last year and had forgotten about them. So will do some this week....
@john558 Do you use compostable bags for your kitchen waste? they are so not compostable and remain in our compost heaps for years. So we do have...
At long last I did some veg sowing. Tomato, dwarf broad beans (I know very late and should have done this in the Autumn), chillies, sweet peppers...
We planted Cornus mas over 5 years ago. The first year no flowers and then each year more produced. This year it is covered in flowers. Will we...
@pete we had our tracy many decades ago as our "christmas" tree. It was very small and we hung so many delicate gold decorations on the "spines"....
After putting the washing out...yes a sunny day for once....weeded in the tunnel. Dug up the remaining carrots. As an experiment the ones that...
We have over the years been given some lovely red ones. Planted them out and never saw them again. Actually this year all our cycs have been very...
Well everyone...you are all so amazing in the amount of work you have been doing in your gardens. We have done little in comparison. Why? Wet and...
Too wet but dug up some carrots and kohlrabi. Feel we should be sowing veg seeds but we always have to do this indoors as the clay soil stays cold...
Dame Judi Dench My Passion for Trees. BBC iPlayer. Superb
@Sian in Belgium no don't know about the syrup. Tell me
@Sian in Belgium we used to do dandelion wine as well but for some reason over the years it just didn't work. We also do elder berry (when we...
@Sian in Belgium just the flowers picked today and added to the hot water for infusing....the colour is golden. When we then move to the next...
The first of the home made wine started! Picked loads of primrose flowers (all arrived by themselves over the years) and have them infusing for a...
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