• A few less of these would be good. They're weeds not some new luscious lawn that I've been nurturing!
• And a few more of these ripening. Time for the old banana skin, methinks.
• And a bit of pot clearing
• And some tulip planting for next year. I've bought some pink, some orange and my favourite "Queen of the Night" Hopefully we will have more luck than last year as several of the tulips got diseased. I'm sure professional gardeners would point to my pot hygenie (or lack of it) as a source of the problem...
• And some seed collecting and labelling. In this case agapanthus and astrantias.
• And some tidying up. Plant labels are at the top of the list. Have I really bought that many plants?
• And find spaces for autumn planting of some of these recently acquired plants.
• And last but not least my beloved Canon Ixus 70 gave up the ghost today. It's been threatening to do that since I rolled about in the sand with it in my hand. It's now in dire need of a service. This blog is going to be a tad dull without it. Keep you fingers crossed and hope that it's not beyond repair.
I think that's enough to be going on with don't you? Perhaps next month I can report that it's all been achieved!
I never realize how many plants or seeds I have bought or acquired until I begin planting, and then I wonder what I was thinking. It all works out though..in the end. Your tulip bulb selections look like they will be so lovely in your spring garden.
ReplyDeleteI find myself thinking the same thing as I look at all my acquired plant labels - did I really buy all these plants????! :) Good luck on getting your camera serviced. I hope they can get all the sand out easily.
ReplyDeleteThose are all good things to wish and hope for.
ReplyDeleteI've been cleaning out some pots, digging some volunteer plants to give away, and starting to cut down other plants. Thank goodness the autumn bloomers are appearing ... the mums and sedums.
Hope your camera is in working condition again soon.
Whole lot of hopes here Janet and a veritable garden centre of new plants awaiting homing. My plant labels are often grave stones of the ones that got away. Rolling about in the sand is one way to justify a new camera - bet you can't wait.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame about your camera, but an opportunity too - another 'hope grows'?
ReplyDeleteThank you for reminding me about the banana-skin trick, too - must give it a go. At the moment I'm relying on the last of the ripening toms to affect the others, but it's a race with the plants, which are intent on dying back.
It gets worse when yougot the label but can't remember where you put the plant! Definitely "glasses in the fridge" time.
ReplyDeleteI try to share the seeds because there's always so many in a packet and they don't always keep well. The camera has been sent off for repair, but we have also bought our first SLR... to share?!
Hi Janet, thanks very much for visiting and leaving all those comments. I will get round to responding to them - promise. You've made me realise I need to pull myself together and put all my plant labels together in one nice tidy tin, instead of crammed into several plastic flower pots in several different locations. Shame on me.
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Dave
Wonderful tulip selections. And your labels look more lovely in that box than mine do in a plastic zip bag!
ReplyDeleteGood luck in your fall planting season. It is my second favorite time of the year... just behind spring planting :)
Dave, it's what I do with the labels afterwards! The plant list at the top of this blog is seriously out of date!
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit uncertain about plating in the Autumn (Fall) as the weather can get very cold up here. In Orkney where we used to live there wasn't a third season, it literally went from a short summer to winter!
This truly is an exciting time of the year! Winter and the inevitable chopping down is approaching, but already the joy of spring is on the horizon with our planning for bulbs and sowing seeds. Some interesting bits & bobs in your ‘to plant’ pile, best of luck getting them in!
ReplyDeleteSpot of bad luck on the camera, I do hope the repairs are straightforward and it returns shortly!
Bertie
You are going to be one busy gardener this month! Whew! I hope you have better luck with your tulips this year...do you know, I completely forgot to plant any last year? It was awful! Picked up some pink ones today, but your Queen of the Night looks interesting!
ReplyDeleteI am about to put in a tulip order too - and currently have a large bowl of green tomatoes with accompanying banana courtesy of me forgetting to tie the parent plants in regularly enough causing stems to break... Hope repairs go swiftly and well.
ReplyDeleteI haven't hear about my camera yet...have difficulty working P's Lumix especially as there is something wrong with the zoom. It would cost as much to repair as buy a new one...
ReplyDeleteSpohie Grigson had a good recipe for green tomato tart a few years back. I may inflict that on our next visitors. There's also green tomato chutney, I suppose. You can tell I'm enthusiastic!
Hi Janet - Hope you get your camera fixed - I know I'd be lost without mine :).
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to see you have MORE plants in pots waiting to be planted than I have - I thought i was the only one who keeps buying more before planting what I have waiting ...
I'm afraid that's only about half of them, Christine. You wouldn't believe I had already had a clear out to plant sales, friends etc.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one who still has green tomatoes - and like the other Janet I now have a bowl of snapped off ones in the house as well ::)
ReplyDeleteI hope you get your camera back soon. A new SLR sounds good though - which one did you get?
We are going to fight over a Nikon D3100. It's just arrived and looks quite formidable after my canon Ixus. Obviously it's bigger and heavier and doesn't fit in the palm of my hand but the SLR has a very satisfying click when you take a photo and an amazing flash that pops up. It's going to be a steep learning curve. I'm still hoping to get my old camera fixed as well.
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