2025 - What I did today

Have you grown lobelia from seed before? It's the slowest growing thing I've ever sown, they just seem to stay at the tiny seedling stage for months!

Pricked out some sweet pepper seedlings. Planted a small flower variety of fuchsia. Put a thick layer of wood chip on the newly planted bed. Started collecting wood together for my first raised veg bed.
Sorted out some seeds and plants for my friend to take home with her.

Have you grown lobelia from seed before? It's the slowest growing thing I've ever sown, they just seem to stay at the tiny seedling stage for months!

I have not too successfully  and agree,  thats why I had hoped to get it sown early, but best laid plans etc.

Not gardening related,but my new- to -me,, sea fishing planning! I now have all the gear but needed to have bait to hand for a last minute foray whenever I go. To this end I have 'salted' mackeral fillets, mussels and pigs liver for a couple of days Today I bagged it up into ziplock bags and later I will be using my new baiting needles to make up some ready made cocktails ready to just slip on the hook when requierd.  I need to egt a move on as the trout season starts on 22nd March where I will be engrossed with freshwater fly fishing,which is a completely different sport!

How far away is the sea you hope to fish in Vinny?

Planted all the leftover Babington perennial leek bulbils - about half a jam jar full. When I say "planted" I mean that I scraped off a bit of soil and dropped half a dozen bulbils there - just as Mother Nature would have done without the scraping bit. I added them to the area I call "Babington Island" where most of the Babington's grow. They're shooting now, so I was able to "plant" them in the gaps. Lots of young leeks showing, as well as the larger, old plants.
Fed the wormeries and hotbin with lots of unwanted cut herbs - hope the worms like coriander and mint!

Planted all the leftover Babington perennial leek bulbils - about half a jam jar full. When I say "planted" I mean that I scraped off a bit of soil and dropped half a dozen bulbils there - just as Mother Nature would have done without the scraping bit.  I added them to the area I call "Babington Island" where most of the Babington's grow. They're shooting now, so I was able to "plant" them in the gaps. Lots of young leeks showing, as well as the larger, old plants.
Fed the wormeries and hotbin with lots of unwanted cut herbs - hope the worms like coriander and mint!

I need to do the same with my Elephant garlic remainders which have went green and are beginning to sprout.  I already have a bed full of them and that will be enough for me as I don't particularily like to eat them anyway! It seems such a shame  to waste them though As I bet there are 20 or30 cloves that need planting out? I'll sacrifice another small bed for them and plant them close together.

Its been one of those wasted days! One of the dogs' Beanbag beds has been spitting beans for a while so I'd put it inside an old duvet cover to contain them. They were still escaping so I decided to bin the bed. Unfortunately it was too large for the household waste bin so had to be split in two! Having done that, it was time to dyson-up all the escapees around the kitchen. I really hate those "beans"!
Never mind, pour yourself a nice cup of herb tea that I'd made earlier in my special teapot. It looked a bit pale but I couldn't remember which teabag I'd used, and some of the herbs are very thin on colour and flavour. It was only after I'd drunk two mugs of hot water that I spotted the unused teabag beside the pot!! I think I'm losing the plot, as well as the pot.
Spent the afternoon sorting seeds for my next sowing.

Its been one of those wasted days! One of the dogs' Beanbag beds has been spitting beans for a while so I'd put it inside an old duvet cover to contain them. They were still escaping so I decided to bin the bed. Unfortunately it was too large for the household waste bin so had to be split in two! Having done that, it was time to dyson-up all the escapees around the kitchen. I really hate those "beans"!
Never mind, pour yourself a nice cup of herb tea that I'd made earlier in my special teapot. It looked a bit pale but I couldn't remember which teabag I'd used, and some of the herbs are very thin on colour and flavour. It was only after I'd drunk two mugs of hot water that I spotted the unused teabag beside the pot!! I think I'm losing the plot, as well as the pot.
Spent the afternoon sorting seeds for my next sowing.

Sounds like one of my normal days! Welcome to the club.

All I've done today is push some rosemary cuttings in a tray of compost beside some beetroot seedlings that have sat there since last year. Had a wander around the garden, the ground is very wet and slippery - not nice! However, there are a few more daffodils in flower, lots of little mauve crocus and snowdrops and I could smell almonds! I've no idea where that came from...........and I heard the resident pheasant. Still haven't seen him though.