Diary of a weekend gardener

Cold, so a polytunnel day

Well, not cold by arctic standards, but below normal plant growth temp. Just reached 10C for a few mins. 13mm of rain overnight - nearly 10% of this year's total rain.

Moved all the cuttings, young plants and new purchases (bought loads of baby herb plants today) into the polytunnel to get them mvoed on a bit. Bought some shading material - when the sun's out it's too strong for young plants in there. Potted up some strawberry plants and moved them in as well - shiould fruit earlier than the outdoor ones. Dug up a paeony (unknown variety but claret colour) and hemerocallis (ditto - sort of mustardy/toffee colour flower) and split them for J&P. They wno't like being split and probably won't flower this year, but next year is the goal.

I really want to do a proper design job for J & P, even if they don't do it all. It's fun to have a whole garden with nothing in it except grass to go at. So I've bought some A2 paper and drawing stuff to have a go. If I can scan the drawings in in I'll put them up on the J&P blog.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 8:11 pm