Another sunny day...what are you doing today?

Albeit a little too windy for my likings :WINK1:
I'm off to a bike ride (cycle).
What have you got planned for this week-end?

 

enjoy pink finger - yes tis a little windy but will be a wonderful breath of fresh air

i am going to watch a cricket match this afternoon - weather permitting - oh the crack of willow on leather - so fingers crossed for no or little rain

Loopy

 

Just planted out my "Garden ready Begonia Sahara" received from JPD in April.
Still a little small, but they'll have to take their chance.
My local Nurseryman's offerings have been out for 3 weeks and are much further on. - should have stayed loyal.

 

Spending time tying up my exhibition sweet peas and sorting out other exhibition plants for the 11th July club show.

Sowing Wall flowers and Sweet Williams too.

 

It was sunny - i've been out in my t-shirt doing a bit of gardeing for the last couple of hours, came in for a cup of tea and it started to hailstone! It's still warm and the sun is now coming back out. Weird! I remember it did this whilst i was in Italy last year in June, for one afternoon we went from 38 degrees to hailstones. Crazy.

 

Just been in the greenhouse sowing sweet corn, squash and pumpkins. Got a bit of a surprise when I found that ants had invaded my bag of seed compost! :DOH:
Picked out about a hundred large ant eggs which were much appreciated by my hens.
Had a very brief shower of rain while I was in there, just about dampened the soil (dust) surface outside but all is dry again now.

 

Pouring with rain in Beccles so retired indoors to highlight competition schedule for summer show and mentally work out which plants I need for the comps.

 

Weeded most of the veg beds - finger tip stuff between the peas and the asparagus. Put up pea netting and then pegged fleece to it as pigeons have just discovered pea leaves are tasty.
Took the first chop from the comfrey bed and stuffed it into plastic barrel to stew for use as fertiliser. Decanted some of last year's comfrey juice (pongy job) from 20 gallon drum to 10 gallon container for ready use.
Raked poultry pellets into brasicca beds as I'll be ready to plant out in a week from now.
Wanted to spray apple tree against scab but too windy!

 

I have been Racing at Newmarket,another one of my passions.
I work there on Racedays

 

Being one of those persons who suffers the cold, I quite like the idea of doing a sport wearing a jumper


I was freezing on my bike ride, managed 31.5m but with temp of 13°C and 15mph winds couldnt wait to get home :o

It looks like you have all been enjoying the outdoors, which is great. It didnt rain here, although it did try to as it got very overcast but then it cleared again. I held off watering the plants hoping for the rain but it didnt happen, maybe overnight...

 

It's been cold and windy here, back to winter I think! The central heating's been on since 2pm.

Popped out this afternoon though and picked up two bottles of Roundup (on offer at B & Q) a bag of multi purpose compost, then popped to a local nursery to pick up my long awaited Buddleia Black knight, that was being grown on. Looks nice and healthy.

Still trying to get hold of Buddleia bi-color on the internet without success though.

 

is this it?
Buy butterfly bush Buddleja × weyeriana 'Bicolor'

looks really nice

 

That's the one Pinkfinger. It's a new hybrid, and the only website that has got it in stock at the moment won't deliver to the island.

I'm on the mainland in six weeks so I will hunt it down then.