2025 - What I did today

Today I’ve been removing loose rust & paint from some army ammo boxes. Treated them with rust stuff. Tomorrow I’ll be attacking them with WD40 to get everything moving more easily. Apparently the rust stuff has to be painted. On top of. Which is a shame, I’d like to keep them as they are.


5 will be new seed boxes for me and 5 for Bob to store things in his garage.

Walked the dogs and did a bit of seed juggling.

Wow, how cool are they!? 

I've used rust stuff that paints on white, but dries clear, at least clear-ish. I hope yours does too. They're lovely!

More clearing in Strip 1 - mostly raking out dead grass, fallen leaves and piling them up.
Collected and planted a ? Coloured leaf willow in a planter in the front garden.
Fed the wormeries with some bags of spinach that I'm not going to eat before it compost in the bag.

My turkish mystery tree seeds have come up! I think it's carob, but not entirely sure. It is two and a half years since I collected the seeds.
So, I've been cooing over the little seedlings today LOL

First coat of paint on all the ammo tins ( 5 lacquer, 5 paint) .
More seed sorting. Still not finished.
Started laying out where veg beds are going. Think I need to re plan it. Got a bit arty with my original plan I think. I need to make it more practical. The way I have it at the moment I’m going to lose a lot of more space to paths than I’d thought. After walking round my paths with the wheelbarrow. So it’s back to the drawing board.

Sometime between 1.00 & 6.00pm today I am getting Virgin cable internet installed? Should be fastwr & cheapr than my present SKY setup? We shall see.

Sometime between 1.00 & 6.00pm today I am getting Virgin cable internet installed? Should be fastwr & cheapr than my present SKY setup? We shall see.

They hook you with an good introductory offer then hike your bill every year in perpetuity. Like with insurance and mobile contracts, it's best to switch frequently to get the best deals.

Yesterday I found a pot of rescued, dried crocus corms that were beginning to sprout, so I planted them out with fingers crossed they might flower. Also found a few straggly wallflowers in a tray, they got bunged in. Of all the onion seeds I sowed previously, only a few Ailsa Craig popped, so sowed some new Bedfordshire Champion seeds. Put some saved BB and sweet peas to soak and put some BB in modules too. I checked the babbington leeks and elephant garlic, both of which are sprouting, which pleases me greatly. Thanks for the bulbils Veggie. The few overwintered plants of pinks, antirrhinum and even a gazania seem to have survived the cold so far. Most of my penstemon cuttings seem to have taken although my snail begonia is a dead loss. Shame, I was looking forward to having one of those.

JJB what is BB? Broad beans? Blue bells? Big bulbs? Bed & breakfast?

JJB what is BB? Broad beans? Blue bells? Big bulbs? Bed & breakfast?

Bingly baubles...........otherwise known as broad beans 

Dug up JA's this afternoon some have been frozen, some given away then I'm making soup and a gratin.

Cut down autumn Bliss raspberries I've left a few canes longer to get an earlier crop.