Absolutely exhausted from a day in the garden....like everyone else! Well I went to our fairly nearby big garden centre this morning as I had some garden token for birthday a few days ago - and bought 4 lupins, 2 delphiniums, 2 achillea, 1 erysimum, 2 campanula. Then spent the rest of the day digging out errant perennial cornflowers, aquilegias, yellow loosestrife and yanking out forget me nots which smother the garden . Dug over the various patches in the beds, then carried 4 heavy buckets of compost (which I dug out) right from back wild grassland where compost heaps are, through veg garden, past cars and yard to front garden (my husband was blocking the way with giant wheelbarrow full of half-dug out sprouting broccoli so couldn't use a wheelbarrow for my compost!
In between cooking roast pheasant I then planted and watered all these new plants - doesn't sound like much (ie the digging composting and planting) but they were all in large pots not tiny plugs. The delphiniums were in huge pots and really hard to get out as completely pot bound! Also watered all round (we've had virtually no rain for weeks), repotted chili plants and a few extra tomatoes, as well as aubergines into their final large pots. Tomatoes are looking amazingly healthy and getting quite big - soon be flowering!
Managed to get some sun tho' too - vest top and short shorts at one point
(important to top up the vit D levels
).
I ache all over now and can barely walk I've done so much digging and bending - despite Pilates on Thursday!!!
Hurdity x