2026 - What I did today.

Finally got round to planting out broad bean plants. They were very leggy and gasping for some freedom. I had some very manky saved seed, so foolishly just chucked them into a seed tray with a bit of old compost and forgot them. They all popped and thrived. Now I have more BB than I know what to do with. I might pester my neighbour, see if he wants some.

Potted on a few tomatoes. Pruned some fruit bushes, pottered about in the sunshine.

It’s not rained all day (so far) . I’ve finished digging out the ditch (it will be a path eventually) that had all grown in with weeds. Covered it with weed fabric. Started filling it with the stones I pulled up out of it while weeding. Mostly to pin the fabric down as much as anything. Also levelled the edge of the eye bed. So the edging stones have a fighting chance of staying where I put them. The levels change quite quickly at this point in the garden. Moved the edging stones I started putting round the eye bed last year. On top of the weed fabric on the newly levelled edge. Weeded / re dugout the eye bed. It’s now also covered in weed fabric until I get round to splitting more rocks.

    I still have to dig the ditch / path right to the fence. Don’t want to do that until I’ve got the gravel to fill it. It’ll just fill with mud again as it’s skews race track.

A P day yesterday; sowed 2 rows of parsnips and 5 seed trays of peas (150 to a tray).

Sowed some soaked peas. Started putting up pea/bean supports. Started weeding top fruit cage, again. If its not bittercress, its speedwell! BAH, I can't win.

Removing more Ivy.

First days rock splitting of the year. It didn’t start well. With the hardest rock me or Bob have ever encountered. Managed to split it into 2 big pieces. We’re not attempting to split it any further. Need new set of feathers & wedges now. 2 got bent and 1 snapped. The second rock was going better until I got called into work.

Planted out:
Spinach
Chard
Rocket

Potted on:
Dahlia Cactus
Zinnia Green Envy
Rudbeckia Green Eyes

Sowed chitted courgettes indoors

Direct sowed nasturtiums outside

Mowed a bit then washed a car - first time in well over 10 years. It wasn't cause of the lichens and moss growing on it but a small bird, probably a robin, has started using its side mirror on the drivers side and window as a toilet. It has likely been seeing its reflection and not liking what it sees - a competitor as big as itself.

Mowed a bit then washed a car - first time in well over 10 years. It wasn't cause of the lichens and moss growing on it but a small bird, probably a robin, has started using its side mirror on the drivers side and window as a toilet. It has likely been seeing its reflection and not liking what it sees - a competitor as big as itself.

A couple of years ago, there were Blue or Great tits attacking their reflection in the wingmirror on my car. and making a mess.  I put a stocking over the mirror to stop them. If you have any stockings, you could try that.