Over the last few days I have been doing a few little jobs in the garden and I really thought I was on a roll, then yesterday morning I woke up to really heavy rain and temperatures that had plummeted ... as promised by the previous nights weather person.
So I decided to find an indoor something or other that I could do to try and keep me motivated.
A little trawl through my seed tin and I found two different kinds of courgette seeds, a pack of cucumber seeds and some rocket. So I sowed them all in little pots with labels.
And now they live on the bedroom windowsill, alongside the chitting potatoes.
The potatoes that we have had from Riverford for the past few deliveries have been delicious, so I had decided to sacrifice three of them to see if I can grow some for myself this Summer. Fingers crossed. 🤞
I'm not growing too much this year, for two reasons, firstly, my health. Gardening is becoming increasingly difficult for me and I can only manage a few minutes at a time without a long rest, and secondly because of our imminent move we want to wind the garden here down to make it truly easily manageable, but at the same time we want to keep it photogenic enough for when we put this house on the market later this year.
So just a few vegetables, and our regular fruit from the apple tree and the blueberry bushes will be more than enough.
Sue xx
Gardening is all about thinking ahead, not necessarily in ways you expect. I'm eyeing up the appalling chaos in my veg patch and leaving it well alone; in two month's time (hopefully) the garden will become an almost inaccessible building site when they (fingers crossed) start (maybe) digging foundations for our extension.... so I keep saying NO whenever the urge to sow seeds comes over me.
ReplyDeleteIt really is isn't it. I have moved house so many times, and a few times my rhubarb has moved with me ... it will be doing so again. Have fun with your foundations, your garden will be like our new garden, but with more trenches and less mountains. ;-)
DeleteWise to save yourself for the big move ahead.some little gardening projects will be good and as you say, the garden needs to look its best when the house goes up for sale. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI just want to try and plant enough for our needs over the summer. I don't want to be buying lots of courgettes and salad leaves when it's so cheap to grow them myself.
DeleteI agree with Kirsten and Catriona. I enjoy gardening, but it does require constant vigilance, planting, thinning out, weeding etc. You have far too much going on with the move to get too involved in it this year. But a pot with 3 potatoes in it is a manageable activity. And the apple tree and blueberries don't need too much attention.
ReplyDeleteI have five potatoes chitting, so it may need to be two pots ... see I'm already expanding. ;-)
DeleteI will just 'lightly' fill the vegetable raised bed, but with simple outdoor sowing in May. I can't resist.
I wonder how a blueberry bush would do in my yard...wouldn't it be great to harvest my own berries?!
ReplyDeleteHomegrown are the tastiest blueberries around, it's something that once you have you have for years with minimal pruning and care. My three pots are moving house with me. :-)
DeleteI find I am constantly adjusting the veg and flowers I grow to suit the time I have or think I will have in the coming months. I find when the weather is better (it is snowing here today) I can do little bits each day and save having an aching back and sore feet from having them bent so much when I am kneeling and weeding. If I do a whole day in the garden like last weekend I can live to regret it now. And to think we once gardened the 3/4 acre plot at the cottage part time!!
ReplyDeleteSnowing here today too, definitely NOT gardening weather.
DeleteI'm holding fire on planting seeds for a while. Derbyshire is quite cold and yes we have had snow today too and sleet. I'm itching to get going though.
ReplyDeleteIt's good that I'm mainly doing indoor gardening at the moment, this morning we had a very hard frost, it took ages to thaw the car out.
DeleteWe have just had a really heavy hailstorm - quite dramatic!
ReplyDeleteYes, it's been very dramatic weather hasn't it, the hailstones caught me out once while I was outside yesterday.
DeleteThe weather is a bit iffy at the moment, isn't it?! I haven't even started my seeds yet but I guess I should, even if they're indoors on a windowsill.
ReplyDeleteIndoors is the only place you are guaranteed some warmth at the moment.
DeleteOoh, I have been enjoying the Riverford potatoes too! I've not sown anything yet though I should get started with some tomatoes asap! I've left it a bit too late!
ReplyDeleteThe potatoes and the cucumber have been the highlight for me, oh and of course the lovely orange and chocolate chip hot cross buns ... thank goodness they are just an Easter special. :-)
DeleteBecause we will be traveling during the summer we are cutting our garden back a bit this year as well. It will just be large enough to give us a bit of fresh food over the time we are home. The same goes for the flowers I usually plant. I will be cutting back on those as well, but adding some to the perennial bed.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I'm really glad that I added a lot of perennials to the beds last year, they are all coming to life beautifully at the moment. Hopefully the garden will look good long enough for estate agents photos to be taken.
DeleteStarting the seeds indoors sounds like a good idea. I just planted five potatoes, myself - they were starting to sprout in the bag of potatoes I bought, last month!
ReplyDeleteIt's the only way for me to do it at the moment, we not guaranteed to be frost-free until the end of April. I think I will have enough potatoes to plant up two of my big pots. It's nice to get going with this years growing isn't it. 😀
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