What I did today

Managed to pick up some used carpet and underlay today, so this afternoon laid it out to make a bed of 40' X 6' . Hopefully this will kill off everything underneath and leave me with some good soil. Won't probably do anything with it until much later in the year when I'll be preparing it for 2011. The other good bit of news is that I'll be doing some seed sowing and gardening for my daughter this year, she has run some power into her shed so I'll be able to set up my propogator in there for flowers for her garden and will also do some veg as well in her greenhouse for planting out later on. Once I get the building work done in my own garden which will probably take me most of this year, it will be full steam ahead in 2011 all going well.

Evening all,


It's hard to believe that 6 months has passed by and I haven't done a single gardening job. Moving house is a right old pain in the neck, but I'm happy to be where I am now. 2010 is the start date, must iniatially do some outdoor buildings but hope to start on the garden as well.

A few pic's of my new garden taken in sept

Haven't been doing much around my daughters garden for the past month or so, too busy getting things organised for my new house and I suppose that will be the way it will be for the next couple of months anyway. Last saturday I rescued this green house from ending up in the builders skip. It will take pride of place in my new garden, did I mention my new house is in 0.8 of an acre, so plenty of room for anything I want to do. Would hope to start on the gardening side of things in sept as I'm sure my better half has plenty of plans for me to do work, work that is, not gardening.

2 of the apple tree's which were planted last september seem to have little apple's appearing, hopefully they'll grow on into something nice and juicy.

Have been late planting out to the 3 raised beds, it's been a bit of a struggle to keep the plants in the greenhouse alive for the past month or so as the day's have been ultra hot, the spuds seem to be growing away, bushy but no great height, don't know why this is but I'm sure time will tell.

Have been missing for a while, between work and other problems just keeping up with things has been a struggle. Things are flying ahead, this year won't be a showy year as I just don't seem to be able to find the time to get on top of things. I recon 2010 will be my year.




Marigold 'durango' grown from seed this year again are doing well, nice big flowers and plenty of blooms per flower.

Gillardia's grown from seed last year, did well but are even better this year.

Lupins 'tutti fruiti' again grown from seed last year but are much stronger this year.

Evening all,

Just to let u know I'm still here, but have been up to alot of things, unfortunately most of them nothing to do with gardening. things are good on the gardening front at the moment and will post again to let u know how I'm getting on.

Growth over the past week has been very obvious, flowers, grass, strawberries, raspberries, potatoes and many more things but also weeds as per usual. Saturday could be best described as wet so I spent most of the day in the greenhouses potting up and tidying up. Dismantled the heated propagator as I need the space it's taking up, and really don't have further use for it this season.





Dropped by the hydro allotments this morning and met Peggy, it's a fabulous place with plenty of things going on. It great to see at first hand the interest that is really there in allotments.

My lilies are getting bigger by the day, great really, considering they were left to die down at the end of last season and just stuck at the bottom of the garden since then and left to their own devices. Will probably make 4 or 5 pots out of them at the end of this season and give them some fresh compost at the start of next season.

As you can see, plenty of green developed on my veg shelf since last week, everything has germinated so hopefully we will get them all to the planting out stage.