I've still got to cut the grass this afternoon. Talking of grass we grew a superb marijuana plant last year - under our bird feeder - not sure how such seeds would have been in the bird mix but it was a very health plant till the frosts came.
Oh bounteous harvest!! I braved the rain earlier to check for crop damage after a downpour overnight - the single raspberry cane I planted early last year, which had mysteriously morphed into about two dozen, has three almost ripe fruit. It somehow makes it all seem worthwhile. Not only that, but my dozen pea plants have one gloriously white flower - only the one because eleven of the plants seem to have suffered attacks by invisible bugs/slugs/snails. Looks like lunch today will be a thimbleful of pea and raspberry soup.
Any advice on lawn laying I am digging up, well actually a young man is digging for me, a 2x3 metre square of lawn which is very clay heavy and become a pond every time it rains.. .we have had land drains put in underneath. so I am ordering a tonne of top soil and then going to seed.... Would you mix the top soil with horticultural sand or what? Advice welcomed Meanwhile all new roses doing very well
One weather forecast says no rain today, while the other one I have consulted says there is a 30% chance of a shower this afternoon. Today my daughter has gone on holiday for a couple of weeks, so I have now have to do her watering as well as my own. As my wife will say, it will keep me out of trouble.
LIfted our garlic plants yesterday - quite asuccess - never grown garlic before but we should now be safe from vampires
Mind you daughter number one entered some veg in their local village fete and got one first prize for courgettes, a second and a third - dunno where she gets that from - certainly not me
