I chose not to go, silly me for I was home alone for over six hours. I really should listen when she talks as she did say that it would be at least 6pm before she gets back.
She left before midday and returned just before 6pm and so I was mighty pleased to see her for I had chewed the big box and was pretty bored.
She, meanwhile, had had a cracker of a day!
The sun had shone, she moved ten strawberry plants over to a bed that had dwarf beans in it last year, raked up all leaves, dug over five large beds, weeded and swept the small terrace outside the Shack and chatted to Roz and Joska.
All of the existing vegetable beds are now ready for planting and this week, she'll 'break ground' on the old herb area.
Where she has planned to dig four skinny beds making them into raised beds with a double frame of decking boards. These will be used for annual and perennial herbs and the 'dunking bath' will have a frame made for it so it stays upright.
A boring and back breaking job has to be done this week, it is to weed the terrace.. boring but it has to be done. Another boring job will be to chop up the tree cuttings into small pieces and to mix up the composts which are 'brewing' in the wooden box beds.
And she has to repair the front wall of Little Shed.
This will be a very BIG job indeed, she's got the huge panels of mdf and all the timber for the supports but needs a stretch of good weather in which to do the work, for everything has to come out so she can remove the entire front wall of the shed.
The last 'job' will be to repair the front fence, the pallets have done a brilliant job as she placed them in the spring of 2002!
Then it will be planting time! Time goes fast when you have good weather in the last month of Winter but then, there's always work to be done in any type of garden.
Such as to remove a invasive Jasmine which never flowered but has crawled everywhere and tries to creep under the roofing felt of the Shack, what a naughty plant it is!
To did out old Gooseberry plants which have come to the end of their productive life, she'll plant annuals and perennial flowers in their place.
She loves Pink Elderflower cordial and wants three plants, for their foliage is beautiful besides their fabulous flowers and she'll plant them to make a hedge behind the narcissi walk.
But it is time for her to go to post a birthday card and a letter and to go to Squires to buy mixed Dahlias and Ranulucus, which she loves both of these as cutting flowers and ask them to get her three Pink Elderflower plants.. she wants the Black Lace variety of Sambucus Nigra.
This was the plant that Constance used to make her elderberry champagne and cordial, she has her mother's recipe and we will give it to you at another date. They are glorious, both in colour and taste and look amazing!
Chirps to you all..
It's gloomy but hey, it's still Winter unless you live 'Down Under'!
GeeGee Parrot.
February 18th, 2019.
She left before midday and returned just before 6pm and so I was mighty pleased to see her for I had chewed the big box and was pretty bored.
She, meanwhile, had had a cracker of a day!
The sun had shone, she moved ten strawberry plants over to a bed that had dwarf beans in it last year, raked up all leaves, dug over five large beds, weeded and swept the small terrace outside the Shack and chatted to Roz and Joska.
All of the existing vegetable beds are now ready for planting and this week, she'll 'break ground' on the old herb area.
Where she has planned to dig four skinny beds making them into raised beds with a double frame of decking boards. These will be used for annual and perennial herbs and the 'dunking bath' will have a frame made for it so it stays upright.
A boring and back breaking job has to be done this week, it is to weed the terrace.. boring but it has to be done. Another boring job will be to chop up the tree cuttings into small pieces and to mix up the composts which are 'brewing' in the wooden box beds.
And she has to repair the front wall of Little Shed.
This will be a very BIG job indeed, she's got the huge panels of mdf and all the timber for the supports but needs a stretch of good weather in which to do the work, for everything has to come out so she can remove the entire front wall of the shed.
The last 'job' will be to repair the front fence, the pallets have done a brilliant job as she placed them in the spring of 2002!
Then it will be planting time! Time goes fast when you have good weather in the last month of Winter but then, there's always work to be done in any type of garden.
Such as to remove a invasive Jasmine which never flowered but has crawled everywhere and tries to creep under the roofing felt of the Shack, what a naughty plant it is!
To did out old Gooseberry plants which have come to the end of their productive life, she'll plant annuals and perennial flowers in their place.
She loves Pink Elderflower cordial and wants three plants, for their foliage is beautiful besides their fabulous flowers and she'll plant them to make a hedge behind the narcissi walk.
But it is time for her to go to post a birthday card and a letter and to go to Squires to buy mixed Dahlias and Ranulucus, which she loves both of these as cutting flowers and ask them to get her three Pink Elderflower plants.. she wants the Black Lace variety of Sambucus Nigra.
This was the plant that Constance used to make her elderberry champagne and cordial, she has her mother's recipe and we will give it to you at another date. They are glorious, both in colour and taste and look amazing!
Chirps to you all..
It's gloomy but hey, it's still Winter unless you live 'Down Under'!
GeeGee Parrot.
February 18th, 2019.
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