What have you done today in the Garden?

I'd really like to see those knee deep blue bells when they come up DHR.

I hope it's 'arry eating the food. Fingers, toes and eye balls crossed.

 

Nothing today the weather is cold so i washed my hair instead. I've still got 40 lupins growing, none have died

 

What a success story, Loggie. What colours will they be?

 

Thank you Sjoerd, they've probably reverted to the Colour blue, the original colour.

 

Did a bit of shopping this morning.
Two bags of topsoil.
Grass seed.
Bag of cement
Two of yellow sand
1 gallon of plasticiser.

Scraped the dead moss away from two large patches on the lawn at the bottom of the garden and covered them with a top soil and grass seed mix.

I'm now ready to jet-wash the main patio tomorrow if the weather is OK.
I've now got what I need to repoint the flags where necessary on Sunday.

I checked the cameras this morning. The only activity was one of the cats had returned and was looking to see if it could get at the dry hedgehog food. It was unsuccessful as I'd moved it further underneath. It could only get its head in the small gap I'd left by arranging some house bricks behind the skirt.
What food I put there last night was still there this morning, so no hedgehog activity yet.


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Good decision to stay in and wash hair and stay warm. Cold temps here and very icy out.
I adore lupines they are self seeding here, however after this last arctic blast with 6” of snow not to sure any will pop up this spring.

 

Yes it was, hope that your lupins come up Pacnorwest.

 

Got the Karcher out this morning and did some jet-washing.
Having to move all the pots to do it was the biggest pain, as they are heavy.
I'll do the pointing necessary tomorrow, when it has dried and if it doesn't rain.
There's a fair bit to do. Water gets between some of the stones and when it freezes, it blasts out the mortar.




This was easier. The concrete slabs aren't porous. The jet-wash also cleans out the moss between the slabs, I'll brush in some of the sand I bought yesterday when they've dried.
The path is still wet.




These pots and the troughs will have to stay here until the pointing has dried on the main patio. This patio and path will have to wait for attention, until stuff can go back on the main patio.




It's been quite mild today.

 

Lupins self seed and over winter here as well. I'm optomistic that they will be fine. They're a tough plant.

 

Thanks Logan.. we will see once the snow melts…

 

Today I planted some flower seeds. It's my first time of growing flowers from seed other than marigolds and scottish marigolds. Today Gazania were seeded ( I love these happy sun loving faces - I hope they take), as well as Cupid's Dart. I've never heard of Cupid's Dart, but there is a chance with shelter it could be a perrenial here which would be nice. Such a gamble about when to start seeds right now, but these two should scratch the itch for a little while.

 

My early pepper plants are anemic looking. I think they are like that every year until I put them in potting soil instead of seed starting medium. I dont know why. pH? Or my sunroom is too chilly. I probably start them too early.

 

Got the big patio pointed today. A fiddly job as I had to chisel out suspect bits of old mortar. Three hours on my hands and knees.
I had to get the amount of yellow dye added to the mortar mix right, in a couple of batches made in a bucket.
It's drying the right colour, the dark patches are where it's still wet.




I'll leave it until Tuesday before putting the pots back to give it time to go off. It's a golf day tomorrow, so i'd only have the afternoon.
All the glazed pots need a clean and I'll check the castors on the "pot movers," as sometimes they don't.
I'll brush in the sand on the second patio too. That'll be it for this week as I've golf again on Wednesday and possibly Friday and Thursday's shopping day.

 

That's a lot of time on ones' knees on stone - tell me you have some of those super padded knee pads please. It looks really great!

 

What is the temp in your sunroom Daniel? Could you put them on a heat mat for a while or a warm window ledge to see if they become happy again? Interesting that they get happy when you pot up. We started our peppers at the same time I think - within a week.