2025 - What I did today

^^^ What are "rat dogs"?

Planted lettuce into buckets, sweet peas against the house wall, then re- homed self seeded plants.
Tidied the GH and sorting plant pots.

^^^ What are "rat dogs"?

Now don't get upset Veggie as I know you have smallish dogs, but rat dogs are my own collective term for dogs that aren't much bigger than a cat or a rat.Mainly Jack Russels and Terriers which were bred for ratting.
There must have been about 30 of them on a half mile stretch of the beach (all off the lead!) and only one Lab sized dog similar size to Kato.

Washed more gravel. Nearly finished the first small section of path in the cottage garden. Filled the new pot store.

   

Quite pleased with how it’s turned out. If only there wasn’t another trailer load to find a home for.

Replying to Vinny but SC Popped up in the middle.

Why didn't you say that in the first place! Not upset Mine are bigger than cats and rats - and pretty good at catching rats and mice and moles. Does that make them mouse or mole dogs?

Washed the last bag of gravel and put it straight on the path. Then I collect all the little stones that fell thought the sieve during the cleaning process. Put them through a smaller sieve, now in the tunnel drying. They’ll be perfect for top dressing pots. Built a support frame round the fish box the sweetcorn, CFB & (possibly) a sunflower will be in. I may of got carried away. It’s about 7ft tall. Planted Bombay bronze cockscomb into their fish box in the tunnel and sown a few more seeds in there as well.

Bought some flowers for the flower boxes on the kids' new playhouse. Also bought a dark pink azalea and rose Roald Dahl. I never buy full price plants but apparently I am in some kind of weakened state.

Cleared/weeded a couple of big pots and rescued some ragged leaf kale and chard Replanted them in the veg plot.
Planted a few tomatoes in the pots and put them, in final positions in the GH.
Moved 3 potato pots out of the GH to the patio as there were ants crawling over the pots. Found the nest, between the side of the GH and the paving slab base. Poured boiling water down the hole to deter them - I hope.
General mooching about, smelling the blossom and watching butterflies.

Yesterday we emptied and pressure washed my GH giving the borders a good soaking with the hose after.

Started planting out sweet peas by weeding and preparing the ground. Also scavenged some rigid insulation from the building works next door and placed it on the staging under the propagators. Had thought to empty props onto staging but the temps are still going negative in the gh. Props are bursting at the seams so maybe it's time to set the frost heater up. Today's jobs are to finish planting the really tangled sweet peas. Then attack the fruit cage, it is really riddled with birds eye and bittercress.