2025 - What I did today

Not a lot gardening. Helped P fix a mirror on the back wall of the garage to enable me to see the nose of the car when I'm pulling in. Space is at a premium so I have to go in as far as possible. Preparing the silver submarine for sale. It's going on Wednesday and I shall be very sad. The garage offered £4 in part exchange! An insult. Carwow got us £754 for it. How many seeds could I buy with that?

Not a lot gardening. Helped P fix a mirror on the back wall of the garage to enable me to see the nose of the car when I'm pulling in. Space is at a premium so I have to go in as far as possible. Preparing  the silver submarine for sale. It's going on Wednesday and I shall be very sad. The garage offered £4 in part exchange! An insult. Carwow got us £754 for it. How many seeds could I buy with that?

I used to reverse my car into the garage. To stop me going too far, we put a plank of wood across the garage floor. When the car's back wheels touched the plank I knew it was time to stop. 
With another car, we hung a pingpong ball from the garage roof that bounced on the window when it was time to stop. 
I'm just lazy now and leave the car out in all weathers!

Not a lot gardening. Helped P fix a mirror on the back wall of the garage to enable me to see the nose of the car when I'm pulling in. Space is at a premium so I have to go in as far as possible. Preparing  the silver submarine for sale. It's going on Wednesday and I shall be very sad. The garage offered £4 in part exchange! An insult. Carwow got us £754 for it. How many seeds could I buy with that?

I used to reverse my car into the garage. To stop me going too far, we put a plank of wood across the garage floor. When the car's back wheels touched the plank I knew it was time to stop. 
With another car, we hung a pingpong ball from the garage roof that bounced on the window when it was time to stop. 
I'm just lazy now and leave the car out in all weathers!

Ditto, we have an old eraser on a string hanging from the ceiling to touch the windscreen. It has worked well for years. I now have a mirror and a dingle dangle, belt and braces or what! The proof of the pudding will be if I don't lose control of the automatic and barge through P's workshop wall.  The plank idea is ingenious.  I expect you have to leave the car outside because the garage is full of all that free food you keep collecting. 

Sown my RHS seeds. A bit early but they were here. Laid out a big tarp for this years veg garden. Filled the first 2 fish boxes with soil / manure mix for the veg . Realised I haven’t got nearly as much manure left as I thought! End of the world crisis! Moved one row of pallets from the plant waiting room. Collected more coffee grounds from the shop. Put the half barrow load of gravel I graded the other day, around the back of the raised veg bed. Emptied a few pots that hadn’t made it through the winter . Sieved the compost out of them. One barrow load of manure / soil mix into the cut flower bed.

The snow is still melting and not much is left. Its warming up again, thank goodness. I didn't enjoy the -8 degrees when I went to work yesterday morning.

Not much gardening has been happening, understandably. However, the owner of the house we are buying came around today and we decided which areas will be my designated veg/flower areas, where the tunnels will go, and where the lawnmowers can go, i.e. his cows lol It was agreed with a handshake

Emptied a couple more none productive pots. Watered the tunnel. Another 2 barrow loads of soil / manure into the cut flower bed. Work.

Planted out the Ouddorpse Bruine shallots saved from last year, mulched with grass clippings and netted to try to protect them from the birds.

Planted out 2 rows of early potatoes the hard way. Dug shallow trench, applied homemade compost in the base and watered with comfrey tea. Plonked in the spuds and ridged up the soil. 2 more to go tomorrow.

   

Cut down the bamboo - still trying to kill it. Saved some of the canes for bean sticks. Put piles of pulled up Vinca into the garden waste bin.
General tidying up.

Yesterday I did some seed sowing, lots of pricking out and potting on.
Then this turned up      .
I’m now faced with the task of grading it all into something usable. 
    To be mixed with what I already have for filling beds.
    Gravel to be washed and used as paths.
    Bigger stones for ditch filling 

Guess what I’m doing today