It's been a fantastic week weather wise and I have been gardening every day.
I feel like I have had another week's holiday already. But here in West Cork instead of the Algarve.
I realised (knew) that I have far too many potted shrubs and perennials and really need to make more vegetable space.
I gave my brother 18 young shrub plants the other day for free. He's going to top them up with good potting compost and feed them and grow them on in his greenhouse.
I successfully propagated over fifty shrub cuttings in Autumn. But you can make soft wood cuttings from Spring and all the way to Autumn when you can make soft and hardwood cuttings going into Winter.
In my photo there are Hydrangea,Hypericum and Fuschia shrubs.
I might chance a few crates of them at a carboot sale at the weekend. It's forecast twenty percent rain. The plants will like the rain but the punters might not?
I am sure I will find somewhere to plant them in the gardens or sell them again some time.
Why do car boot sales start so early in the morning? Why can't they start later and go on all afternoon?
Do you grow your own plants from cuttings?
Gardening all week - you put lazy fellows like me to shame. I hope I can force myself out into the garden tomorrow. Once I am out there I am happy - especially when the weather is nice - but it's making that first step that's the problem. Maybe I need to see a psychiatrist.
ReplyDeleteYes YP. Some paid and some for myself. I must go walking this weekend before the rain returns. I admire how you like walking on your own. I get bored of my own company. Sometimes Bronte walks with me. Some places where there are sheep we can't go walking together.
ReplyDeleteIt has been wonderful weather hasn't it. Who needs the Algarve?
ReplyDeleteI do 😃 JayCee. We have had better weather the last week than we get in July. Unbelievable! Hope it's not a wet August.
DeleteIt sounds as if the plantaholic gene runs in your family! I have a hydrangea and two little pine trees to get in the ground. But...it will need to warm up a bit. Lucky you to have gardening weather!
ReplyDeleteMy Irish grandfather use to sell cabbage plants in Bantry on a fair day Debby. So yes it could be in the genes. I hope you get some of our grat weather Debby
ReplyDeleteI get my gardening skills from my mum, dad grew vegetables to feed our large family, but mum had the passion, I will never be as knowledgeable as her.
ReplyDeleteThe weather is beautiful here and the garden has been cleared of all the oxalis. That won't reappear till November thank goodness. I've got tomato plants and pumpkin seeds and beans ready to plant.
ReplyDeleteOf course you take cuttings. Such a shame to waste them. I hope you can sell some
You have definitely got gardening genes Marlene. I once knew an old allotment holder who visited his allotment every day rain or shine. He told me none of his children had no interest in growing things. He wondered if he had took them too many times? My mentor was John Seymour. When I read his book (bible) on self sufficiency I was hooked. I still miss my allotments in England. Smallholding life is very isolated.
ReplyDeleteIt is, you can't pop too far as there is always something to do, I really don't like to be anywhere with too many people, so I think I could be happy on a small holding, sadly it would be my hubbies horse nightmare.
DeleteThe grass is greener on the other side of the fence. I was born in a town next to the countryside. I spent so much of my time in the countryside walking and fishing and drinking in country pubs. I think the ideal place for me would be on the edge of a village with allotments, public transport and a Wetherspoons pub that sold cheap beer and food.
DeleteThanks Linda. It's good to know you have vegetables to plant. I find it very satisfying to think the plants in our garden we have propagated with the generous help from Mother Nature.
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