Proserpina, sounds like your gran had a good life, living in her own house till the end and keeping her mental faculties. Most people would wish for that.
I agree with your mum and Veggie that plants can have a special meaning. I have an orchid that belonged to mum that has nearly dies a couple of times but flowered really well this year and has 2 offsets I will pot up when I have a bit of time.
So sad to learn about Grandma Pros, it must be really difficult going round the garden she loved, but do take some of her beloved plants in time, they will remind you of her every time you see them.
I'm so sorry gor uour loss Pros. Big hugs
So sorry to hear your news Proserpina
I am sure you will be able to maintain your Grandma's gardening legacy, and hope you'll be able to choose some plants to relocate when the time feels right.
Yesterday I spent the mornng watering - yes we've gone from damp days barely reaching double figures to high twenties/thirty in a matter of days - and organising what needs to go where and when as we're away for a week next week.
Somehow my brassicas that usually follow the broad beans are already big healthy plants ready to go out and I've only just started harvesting the broadies. I'd decided to be less rigid in the planting plan, so will poke the romanescos between the rows of French beans - they'd be going there eventually anyway!!
Spent a horiible four hours clearing knee high tick-infested weeds from a client's garden in the afternoon. I'm trying do the same in three or four hours every three weeks that the owner would have done whilst pottering in her garden all day every day! (It's a second home and Covid means they've not been here since November 2019.)
Sorry to read about your gran Pros xx
Not done anything today yet except give a blood sample, too wet. Yesterday I planted out all my tomatoes and, giving them all a good dollop of garden compost, it took a lot longer than I thought it would.
Hoping to be able to finish off the greenhouses with aubergines, peppers, cucumbers and the odd squash plant. I doubt I will get round to my dwarf beans today.
Could do with getting all the pots out of the greenhouse to cut down on watering. Lots of weeding needs doing (some are over 5' now).
I've just done a bit of weeding in the carrot patch. Some of them are putting on quite a lot of growth! The recent rain must be good for them
A bit of weeding. Tied up a sunflower & clematis. Pricked out some seedlings. Sown seeds. went for a walk to the beach. See if I could find some agate (tall order, it’s mostly found on the east coast of Scotland). Did some litter picking while I was there.
Did the weekly sow list.
Strimmed out the front and the paths in the veg garden.
Fed all the potted ornamental plants.