What a difference a day makes, as Dinah Washington sang. From being do fed up with not being able to garden or to even enjoy the fruits of my labour we suddenly had a break in the rain and it stayed dry and very hot for my day off too. Oh joy!
Whilst they say every cloud has a silver lining I think that every sunny day has a dark cloud and my cloud is in the shape of my compulsion to visit and spend money at the local garden centre. So yesterday I popped there, just to have a little look (am I still kidding myself?) and before I knew it I'd bought some two for one Gerberas, some alpines for the rockery and some sweetcorn for the empty patch in the veg garden where the potatoes had been till I dug those ruby beauties up.
Three types of potatoes, first earlies, earlies and maincrop.
Once bonemeal was sprinkled on and the ground well dug over to ensure the potatoes were all recovered and the soil aerated I planted up some sweetcorn. It's possible that with good weather (some hope) we will still get something to harvest..
Holes dug and watered, plants dropped in before being backfilled and firmed in.
Mrs Bun and Poppy!
Whilst they say every cloud has a silver lining I think that every sunny day has a dark cloud and my cloud is in the shape of my compulsion to visit and spend money at the local garden centre. So yesterday I popped there, just to have a little look (am I still kidding myself?) and before I knew it I'd bought some two for one Gerberas, some alpines for the rockery and some sweetcorn for the empty patch in the veg garden where the potatoes had been till I dug those ruby beauties up.
Three types of potatoes, first earlies, earlies and maincrop.
Once bonemeal was sprinkled on and the ground well dug over to ensure the potatoes were all recovered and the soil aerated I planted up some sweetcorn. It's possible that with good weather (some hope) we will still get something to harvest..
Talking of holes being dug - look who else has been 'gardening'..,
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