Gardening Days (mostly)

From Facebook Archives, from the first year I was on the site and last year.

31 May 2009 at 11.07

Have just had breakfast in the garden.  Fruit juice: toast with butter and homemade apple jelly; tea; and the Archers.  Bliss

31 May 2009 at 15.51

Have spent all day gardening and am tired, dirty, sweaty and have had too much sun

Miss Fiddle  Ditto!

31 May 2025 at 20.09

The Community Nurse called early yesterday when I was out with Thunderthighs at the dentist, so Fester had to deal with her (and vice-versa).

The bad news is they have run out of pico dressings but are expecting a delivery before Tuesday so Ferretfingers’ has got what amounts to a very large elastoplast, with sticky on all four sides.

The good news is the wound has become so shallow that pico dressings won't be applicable for much longer.

Yesterday Fester harvested the kale as it was preventing me using half the lawn.   

He fried it and there are now 10 chinese takaway boxes full in the freezer; each box holds sufficient for two people.

Today I hoed, raked and fertilized the bed and planted a row of parsnip seeds, a row of spring onions and radishes, and 40 leek seedlings.

At the Clousden Allotment plant sale he insisted on buying the bigger pot of leek seedlings.  So at least another fifty went in with the marrows in bed#1; which now only has space left for the sole pumpkin (still in its original pot on the front bedroom windowsill).

Thanks to Thunderthighs, the inedible kale stalks and flowers are now forming a nice thatch on the compost heap behind the garage.

After all that work, and watering, I had to lie on the bed for the rest of the afternoon.

Breakfast in the garden, when the weather allows, is my favourite way.