Showing posts with label slugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slugs. Show all posts

2015-04-16

Few photos

These are from two days ago (first 3) and this morning.
Phone pictures. Sometimes I have to put my hand behind small, close objects, or my phone won't take a macro.

I removed the straw and Pim put the clematis back in the sun
(it was next to the hedge, probably thought there it was more protected
for the winter). Probably should have done it earlier.
Also retied the trellis since the rope had rotted.
It's grown a bit. Just a bit.

Very excited for figs (although probably not this year or the next).

Apple blossoms two days ago

Apple blossoms today
Yes! At least two mints I planted here last year were munched
into oblivion. As I was clearing this year I saw a root system that I
thought might be mint, so I left it alone. Yes!

I grew a few "pastel", and white, I think, sweet pea indoors. Planted them out
yesterday evening. I am encouraged to see they have not been munched overnight.

I've had a wild strawberry planted in a for for like 4 years. Amazingly
enough it has survived all these years, even though it's gone dry more than
once. It was all root, very crowded. We divided it into three chunks and
yesterday evening planted them in the strawberry patch.

I'm bummed that slugs seem to love hyacint :(

Rose on the left

Rose on the right. It must not get enough sun here.

Red currant :D

Asshole.
Ok, I get hungry too...

2015-04-05

In the garden today

I wasn't raining and it wasn't cold as fuck, so I spent a few hours in the garden. Loki too. He's exhausted and sleeping now ;) I'm fucking broken...

All the pictures are grainy because I had a setting wrong...

Another cat came into the garden and Loki got all puffed
I planted three thyme plants (common, bought a while back, and  silver and golden-lemon, bought yesterday). Also a red-leaved sage I planted next to last year's.


Also planted one wild strawberry (F. vesca) in the strawberry patch (total chaos! there's like 3 or 4 kinds there now, no idea which is what). Also took a few photos around:

Rosa mulliganii

Hawthorn

HawTHORN

Rosemary

Boston Ivy
And some bulbs will have flowers soon:







I have no idea what anything is, except:

This fat-ass bulb is a hyacint
And the insects were buzzing:





Oops

Ms Spider is technically not an insect either
Another cat photo?


So I also cleaned up at the back: trimmed the neighbours's hedges on my side, a few branches off the hawthorn where they made it impossible to pass, cleared a bit of bramble and nettles, mostly making a pile of this and last year's branches on the ground. Also planted some ferns from a terrarium I dismantled, there at the back, where it is very shaded. I guess this way they get a chance, although I think it's slim.

This was a bit hard work for my back so now I'm gonna lay down ;P

2014-03-14

(Poor) Notes for 2013

This is all from memory. If I remember I'll go though the seed packets at the house and check labels.





Last year we planted a few vegetables, but didn't have time to do nothing much in the garden (which will probably be the case this year as well).

With little to no attention, all of the tomatoes -cherry, some fat ones from a Spanish packet of seeds, a hybrid and a beef tomato from the garden centre, and a rogue tomato that popped out on it's own- did really great, so great that we found out we had planted them all way too close to each other. We planted them against a sunny wall, covered by some perforated plastic.






The pattypan squash did great as well (although we didn't find it of culinary interest).

 



The artichoke was the absolute favourite of the slugs, who would have thought?



The courgettes were also devoured, but to a lesser extent, we could eat two or three.




The leek and the spring onions were devoured from below by some unidentified grubs, the celery refused to grow (perhaps lack of water, too much sun?), and the collard greens were obfuscated by the pumpkin: planted too close.



The radishes did great; so did the peas, but they were low plants, this year I'll go for pole seeds. The beans were all devoured or duds, only one popped up, and that one did really great. That was a pole bean.





Lettuce in container did... psé, we neglected it too much.

The mint was in the less sunny spot of the trench we dug, but it was still too sunny, I think. Too dry as well. It was a bit better for the chives. All together a raging success compared with any herb I ever planted in a pot indoors...



We got a bunch of strawberry plants from Pim's parents, because theirs had reproduced too much. They were in a bit of a shock after transplanting (due to no planning whatsoever they spent a whole night and half a day drying out in the driveway, but nearly all survived. We got to eat a few strawberries. The snails also ate a few. Or perhaps birds.





We planted a raspberry and two kinds of red currants (I LOVE redcurrants). Only to realise the jungle at the back is mostly redcurrants and raspberries (and some stubborn blackberries), but it is too much of a shady mess to give much to eat, or even get to it.



I thought the three bushes we planted had died, and the raspberry most definitely did, but I've seen signs of life on the redcurrants this spring!



I also planted a Jonagold apple tree, that I want to train against some sort of wall that isn't there yet (we'll see), and a white peony. Both look allright (I should have protected the peony for the winter? but the winter turned out to not deserve the name: two nights of light frost...). And some annual flowers which were not too good, and two foxgloves that I hope will get nice and big on their second year! they did get some great nice leaves last year. I planted delphiniums and my father thought they were weeds too close to the tomatoes... off they went.



Except when noted, and the radishes and peas, we only planted one plant of each.