What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK2..

Washed both cars as they had turned beige with the results of the farmer harvesting his fields (at least I think it was the farmer's fault and not sand from the Sahara that we sometimes get), a bit of lawn edging, four hours of pressure hosing, one hour of bean picking, half an hour of watering greenhouse and pots (with the hose), filling the bird feeders and a short time spent harvesting chillies.

 

Started this morning by spraying Pathclear on the weeds on the patio before heading out (give it time to dry before the dog is on it), cleared a load of rubbish from the back garden off to the local tip, then popped into a garden centre that is near the tip for a wee nosey.

Its the second time that I've been to that garden centre, and both times it was pretty much empty; had a wander round and had a look at their 'half price plant sale', which was pretty much nonsense, as I saw nothing half price and plenty that looked bedraggled at best. For the second time, I walked out of there empty handed (something of a record for me, as I invariably end up with something.

Anyway, we toddled off to Sainsburys, but on the way the car decided it wanted to go into Homebase first (who am I to stand in the way of the car's wishes ), and we ended up coming out with a load of GP Compost, violas in various states of health and some cineraria.

After Sainsburys, it was home to play with plants. First, I potted on the ones that were in the 50p 'oops we tried to kill them' trays, thinking that some nice fresh compost around there toes, a bit of a watering and a wee bit shelter in the polytunnel for a week or so might make them feel a whole lot better.

We went from this:





To this:

 

Then, I decided to clear out my driveway troughs and a couple of baskets, and get them started on their autumn/winter plants:

Out:

 

And in:






Then, I harvested a few peppers to go on the pizza we are going to make any minute now.....

 

Thanks Jenny - I've sure got the bug bad!

Its just a shame that the tomato base on these home made pizzas had to come from a jar - would have been so nice to have home grown to match the peppers

Hopefully next year, it will be home grown tomatoes, onions, peppers and chillies going onto our pizzas