Luckily I have got a lot of digging done, as I've been driven off the plot twice today by torrential rain - hard enough to be bouncing off the ground and whirled along by the wind, and complete with thunder and lightning. So I'm drying off now. However I've got 90% of what needed doing most done already, which I'm really quite pleased with, and thus far am still just about mobile.
Leaves raked up and either layered into compost bins or bagged up for the winter. Hawthorn leaves from our trees were in danger of messing with street drainage flow, so They were seen to as well.
Pepper plants left in greenhouse are slowly dying off as, are the squash plants and sweet corn outside so they ve all been chopped and either dropped and covered for winter or added to our startling array of compost bins n boxes.
By lunch time I was done in so slept this afternoon!
Much allotmenting done - of course, the forecast for next week is fine and bright (if parky)! Now, if it will just hold to the weekend, I might get my shed up....
This time of year, I like to wander round and see which plants are flowering in winter. Some early ones, e.g., cherry, camelia, sweet box, amazing smell, and some late ones, rose, fuchsia, choisya. Lots of small white flowers I don't know, so about 25 total. But a botanist would double or treble that. Still, it's fun.
I think the split in my garden is between plants that look dead, and plants that really are dead. And all this before much in the way of frosts.
Same in my garden, pretty much - I finally got around to cutting back the past-it perennials today, raking up leaves and other winter tidying. The evergreen shrubs are doing well though, and there are a few wee flowers on my straggly viburnum.
Planted a large bag of wildflower seeds on empty space in the garden for whoever buys our home. Hope to welcome them by spring with some flower joy other than the fruit trees blooming and bulbs already there.
The new shed/summerhouse occupies most of the paved area, leaving just a narrow strip between it and the (very muddy) grass. So I spent the morning digging out a strip of the adjacent turf and putting down some random slabs infilled with gravel.
Soil, which is clay, very wet, reminiscent of stuff on which my native city is built which goes by the evocative name of 'sleech'.
Thank you for asking! It has gone rather well so far - it's up, it's been painted with two layers of oil-based paint to be really water-repellent, it's got gutters and as of the last weekend it's got no less than three water butts (I cannot tell a lie - I am a butt man). I've also replaced the screws in the hinges with coach bolts in case some scrote decides to try to get in (mind you, it's currently unlocked, as all it has in it is the pallet I intend to build a mower ramp from).
Now comes the hitch. I can't fill it (and pull down the old shed which is, frankly, derelict) until the Knotweed's brother-in-law can visit to put in the electrics. Who knows when that will be?
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Pepper plants left in greenhouse are slowly dying off as, are the squash plants and sweet corn outside so they ve all been chopped and either dropped and covered for winter or added to our startling array of compost bins n boxes.
By lunch time I was done in so slept this afternoon!
It s now wind and rain.........
Same in my garden, pretty much - I finally got around to cutting back the past-it perennials today, raking up leaves and other winter tidying. The evergreen shrubs are doing well though, and there are a few wee flowers on my straggly viburnum.
Still nice to potter about for a while though.
Soil, which is clay, very wet, reminiscent of stuff on which my native city is built which goes by the evocative name of 'sleech'.
Thank you for asking! It has gone rather well so far - it's up, it's been painted with two layers of oil-based paint to be really water-repellent, it's got gutters and as of the last weekend it's got no less than three water butts (I cannot tell a lie - I am a butt man). I've also replaced the screws in the hinges with coach bolts in case some scrote decides to try to get in (mind you, it's currently unlocked, as all it has in it is the pallet I intend to build a mower ramp from).
Now comes the hitch. I can't fill it (and pull down the old shed which is, frankly, derelict) until the Knotweed's brother-in-law can visit to put in the electrics. Who knows when that will be?