I had one of those great gardening days when I did so much! If only I'd got stuck in a bit earlier I'd have managed even more. For the past couple of weekends I've had family staying, I've wanted to hang out with them and it's a bit rude to do gardening when I should be entertaining guests! So there were a few tasks that had stacked up.
First thing first, I have a load of Antirrhinum "Tequila Sunrise" which were freebies with a magazine. So they needed pricking out and potting on. I've got 15 into small pots, and decided to see if the rest would survive out in the front garden (now that the bamboo and string fence I set up seems to have stopped the groundsmen from digging up my seedlings!). It's a bit late in the season, but given the weather at the moment I'm not convinced a few extra weeks would have made an atom of difference!
I also had to rescue the three remaining strawberry plants after Bubba the Squirrel decided to supplement his diet of tree fern with some fruit. I'll not get any more flowers now, but at least I can keep the plants strong and healthy for next year. I'd got one strawberry before Bubba got stuck in, and actually it was quite tart, so I hope it made him suck in his big fat rodenty cheeks!
I've also dug up the last of the potatoes. I had "Sharpe's Express" first earlies, which didn't flower (so confused the hell out of me). Leaving them in for another month helped a lot - from having a batch of baby new potatoes, some of them are now fist-sized, so I'll get a couple of meals out of them.
Tomato and chilli seedlings are in pots now in the growhouse, and a few other seedlings have been put in bigger pots. The growhouse is full again. No idea what I'm going to do with everything! I reckon vegetables are going to cease to be a fun side-project of mine along with the Mesozoic containers. I just don't have the time, space or energy to grow loads of veggies AND keep my other leaf babies alive.
So yeah, the other plants. Well, a Cheilanthes lanosa hurled itself into my trolley when I was in Homebase the other day, so that needed potting up. That'll be a future Friday Fern, no doubt. And while I was giving out bigger pots I decided to upgrade the inside plants' pots. Araucaria heterophylla is now in my biggest indoor pot. Sideshow Bob has been moved out of the bathroom, as he was clearly not happy (vertical, elongated fronds - not good). And the Adiantum raddianum "Fragrans" has been moved into the bathroom to see whether it copes well with the low light levels.
Finally for today, I made up some new labels for Jurassic Park. I ordered some great black plastic labels from an excellent e-Bay seller, along with a white marker pen. So everything's labelled properly, and I doubt it's going to fade like the black marker has done on the white labels.
Tomorrow morning I need to see if I can get some moss around the other ferns, but I'm heading off to Hampton Court in time for lunch so my gardening slot will be limited.
First thing first, I have a load of Antirrhinum "Tequila Sunrise" which were freebies with a magazine. So they needed pricking out and potting on. I've got 15 into small pots, and decided to see if the rest would survive out in the front garden (now that the bamboo and string fence I set up seems to have stopped the groundsmen from digging up my seedlings!). It's a bit late in the season, but given the weather at the moment I'm not convinced a few extra weeks would have made an atom of difference!
I also had to rescue the three remaining strawberry plants after Bubba the Squirrel decided to supplement his diet of tree fern with some fruit. I'll not get any more flowers now, but at least I can keep the plants strong and healthy for next year. I'd got one strawberry before Bubba got stuck in, and actually it was quite tart, so I hope it made him suck in his big fat rodenty cheeks!
I've also dug up the last of the potatoes. I had "Sharpe's Express" first earlies, which didn't flower (so confused the hell out of me). Leaving them in for another month helped a lot - from having a batch of baby new potatoes, some of them are now fist-sized, so I'll get a couple of meals out of them.
Tomato and chilli seedlings are in pots now in the growhouse, and a few other seedlings have been put in bigger pots. The growhouse is full again. No idea what I'm going to do with everything! I reckon vegetables are going to cease to be a fun side-project of mine along with the Mesozoic containers. I just don't have the time, space or energy to grow loads of veggies AND keep my other leaf babies alive.
So yeah, the other plants. Well, a Cheilanthes lanosa hurled itself into my trolley when I was in Homebase the other day, so that needed potting up. That'll be a future Friday Fern, no doubt. And while I was giving out bigger pots I decided to upgrade the inside plants' pots. Araucaria heterophylla is now in my biggest indoor pot. Sideshow Bob has been moved out of the bathroom, as he was clearly not happy (vertical, elongated fronds - not good). And the Adiantum raddianum "Fragrans" has been moved into the bathroom to see whether it copes well with the low light levels.
Finally for today, I made up some new labels for Jurassic Park. I ordered some great black plastic labels from an excellent e-Bay seller, along with a white marker pen. So everything's labelled properly, and I doubt it's going to fade like the black marker has done on the white labels.
Tomorrow morning I need to see if I can get some moss around the other ferns, but I'm heading off to Hampton Court in time for lunch so my gardening slot will be limited.
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