In an English City Garden
Yesterday afternoon a friend came round and together we made inroads into the rampageous honeysuckle with a pair of borrowed garden shears and her secateurs. About an hour, and five bin bags of 'cuttings', later we decided to stop. We'd cleared a good half of the plant and anyway, she needed to go collect her daughter from school. The rest of the honeysuckle needing removal doesn't look quite so daunting. Hey, I may yet have a garden!
We even managed to come up with a rooted bit of the honeysuckle, so she's going to ask her husband (who is in charge of their garden) whether he'd like some. Regularly pruned, of course!
The moral of this particular story is that I need to cut back the honeysuckle every one or two years at most, not leave it for seven. I plead illness. H doesn't do gardening, though he does appreciate the results.
I must remember to 'plant out' the parsley I got the other day too. You know the pots of growing herbs you can buy from the supermarket? Apparently if you take the overgrown clump of herb seedlings, divide it and replant into several pots or in the ground, you can get quite a few herb plants, which will grow on all summer and into autumn.
The plants I planted out last week - French beans, some form of leaf crop and bunch onions continue to grow, the french beans despite rampageous attacks by snails. I put some coffee grounds on the pot as mulch yesterday. Let's hope this deters them. The french beans I didn't plant out are setting flowers (purple ones) up on our bedroom windowsill. They really need planting out - somewhere snail-free (in our yard?) I could probably do with sowing some more too, if only to replace those chewed by the snails.
On the theme of gardening - it's the Chelsea Flower Show this week. I've been quite enjoying the TV coverage, though they tend to show the same gardens time and again. Have a look at the link, it contains a picture of the knitted/crochet poppies exhibition. If you look closely at the close-up of the 'flowers', you can see that they are just that - knitted and crochted. So much for the gardening presenters who seem to not know the difference!
Now I know my (very) little patch will never resemble a Chelsea garden (too many snails for one thing,) unless it be in the 'construction' or 'taking down' stages, but this summer it's going to look (quite) good.
Right, having chased the dust yesterday, I suppose it's time to plant out the parsley and have another hack at that honeysuckle. Oh. Dear.
Y'all have a good day now!
We even managed to come up with a rooted bit of the honeysuckle, so she's going to ask her husband (who is in charge of their garden) whether he'd like some. Regularly pruned, of course!
The moral of this particular story is that I need to cut back the honeysuckle every one or two years at most, not leave it for seven. I plead illness. H doesn't do gardening, though he does appreciate the results.
I must remember to 'plant out' the parsley I got the other day too. You know the pots of growing herbs you can buy from the supermarket? Apparently if you take the overgrown clump of herb seedlings, divide it and replant into several pots or in the ground, you can get quite a few herb plants, which will grow on all summer and into autumn.
The plants I planted out last week - French beans, some form of leaf crop and bunch onions continue to grow, the french beans despite rampageous attacks by snails. I put some coffee grounds on the pot as mulch yesterday. Let's hope this deters them. The french beans I didn't plant out are setting flowers (purple ones) up on our bedroom windowsill. They really need planting out - somewhere snail-free (in our yard?) I could probably do with sowing some more too, if only to replace those chewed by the snails.
On the theme of gardening - it's the Chelsea Flower Show this week. I've been quite enjoying the TV coverage, though they tend to show the same gardens time and again. Have a look at the link, it contains a picture of the knitted/crochet poppies exhibition. If you look closely at the close-up of the 'flowers', you can see that they are just that - knitted and crochted. So much for the gardening presenters who seem to not know the difference!
Now I know my (very) little patch will never resemble a Chelsea garden (too many snails for one thing,) unless it be in the 'construction' or 'taking down' stages, but this summer it's going to look (quite) good.
Right, having chased the dust yesterday, I suppose it's time to plant out the parsley and have another hack at that honeysuckle. Oh. Dear.
Y'all have a good day now!