30-05-25

Good morning, everyone.  How's things this Friday morning.  Yesterday started gloomy, turned into sunshine, hazy at times, and we seem to have had more rain overnight.  It's a bit gloomy now but we will see.

Thank you all very much for your lovely comments.  Isn't it great to have good news.

For Jane, here's the link to Anita's Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/madebyanita
and to her blog where she details the Trellis Blanket:  Trellis Blanket
I've signed up to receive email updates which is what I did last time.  Very helpful.
I'm expecting the yarn to arrive today and then I can admire the colours for a week while I finish off the current WIP, a sunburst square 'jacket'.  Not really a jacket but a bit more substantial than a cardigan.

If you are interested, here's a post about foxglove seeds and saving them.  
https://gardenerspath.com/plants/flowers/save-foxglove-seed/
I'm not doing that - I'm going to let them sow themselves in autumn and then I should get flowers the next summer (I think I have got that right - sow one year, flower the next) - and I can pull up the ones not needed.  I'd like a few more anyway, they are very lovely.  
Please correct me if I am wrong here. 

I have realised that they may have one main stem but, as the bottom flowers dies and fall off, out come some side shoots that look as if they will also have a lovely set of flowers.  Can you see in the photo?

I just have to show you this close up - they are so very lovely, I think.

In the morning chat with Chris, we got onto the subject of hanging baskets.  I have five brackets for baskets, one at the front, two on the back of the house (one of which holds the wind chimes) and two on the garden room (well, three actually, but the third one is not weight bearing and I use it for a bird feeder.

I hadn't really thought about hanging baskets but decided it would be a Good Idea so off I went to B&Q (cheap!!) and then to Longacres and bought three wire baskets, three linings and some trailing flowers of various kinds.

Now they are all planted up and I will leave them sitting in the pots for a few days to water them in and start them off and once they look happy, up they go.

I've decided to have them all up at the back - because if I have one at the front, the chances are it won't get watered enough.  I know me!

The baskets, etc, were not the only thing that caught my eye though.  Dear me, no.  Guess what I found.

Yes - Roma tomatoes.  Of course I bought two, just in case.

So now I have my plum tomatoes, my Sungolds and a nice variety of others - and my cup is full and running over.

The Roma are very small in comparison to the others, as the photo shows, but, looking at them this morning, they have perked up and look taller already.  They should be fine.

I moved the baby corn (growing nicely so far but I still worry that the pots are not big enough) over to the other side so I could put the Roma (I am assuming that's the plural but it might be wrong) by a fence that I can tie the cane to, if necessary.

I was a little unsure as to whether I had enough remaining potting compost for the extra pots and baskets but I did - just.  There's a very little left in the last bag which I will spread over one of the beds at some point.

No runner beans yet though . . .

I really do think that's the garden done and dusted for this year - not in terms of work, in terms of getting stuff.  I have, of course, totally destroyed the budget again this year and, should I be lucky enough to win anything on Premium Bonds next week, I will be drawing that out to cover some of the excess instead of leaving it in.

More happy news - Lathcoats is open for fruit picking next week and, as always, senior citizens and people with disabilities can just turn up between nine and ten rather than having to book - when the fields are open, of course.

And Ava still does well.  She's wobbly still but eating better, drinking well and doesn't need any more vet input for now.

Better stop rambling.  I have my Facebook stuff to do and I have to be out early for Slimming World.
Have a lovely Friday, everyone.  Stay safe, stay well.  xx