Cherries & First Raspberries
- New bird: Great Spotted Woodpecker - First raspberries - Orange Day Lillies out - Lost 1 courgette - Lost 5 cucumbers. 7 remain - Peppers & tomatoes thriving, fruit forming - Stripped cherry tree
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Planting Cucumbers, Aubergines & Peppers
- Saw baby stork for first time - Dog roses finished, poppies still out - Pink peony out, rest finished - Lawn roses fully out - pink one massive - White rose bush fully out - Orange day lillies stalking - Cherries starting to redden - Weeded, straightened & spaced J7 barnside drip-pipes - Assembled cucumber support: J7 barnside - Planted: Crocodile Cucumber - 6 on drip-pipe 3 - 6 on drip-pipe 1 - Tomatoes: - Weeded - Tied up to second wire row 20cm above first - Колтуча-d - Planted: Aubergine - Vacant spaces between centre end tomato poles - 2 on drip-pipe 3 - 2 on drip-pipe 1 - Weeded, straightened & spaced J6 house-side drip-pipe 3 - Planted: Peppers - 12 on J6 house-side drip-pipe 3 - Saw lizard in veggie patch
Bits
- The bluetooth shutoff for the drip-pipes worked - Lawn roses returning - 5 or 6 white roses on bush - Stork on neighbour's chimney - Last of orange day lillies
Back to the start
- Everything completely overrun after 2 months away - Orange Day Lilies out - Yukka flowers out - Begonia ressurected - New bird: Syrian Woodpecker - Firefly on window in evening
After 3.5 Months Away
- The Boy's first visit. - Cat remembered us - Concrete crumbling away on garage - Blossom almost ready on plum & pear trees - Inside: - New growth on Ivy Geranium - Treasure Flower dead - Begonia looks dead - Aloe Vera browning but new growth at bottom - Chives dead - Basil dead - Peace Lily dead - Geranium & Pelargonium possibly dead - Wildside: - Snowdrops just finished - Purple crocuses up (2) - Tulips coming - Dwarf Elder (?) at bottom - Lawnside: - No roses - Primrose bed disappointing - Indian Blanket looks dead - Succulents & Delosperma overrun - Orange Day Lilies coming up at top - Veggie Patch: - Rocket & Broccoli dead - Nettles dead - Spinach coming up - Spring Garlic coming up - Herb garden overrun - Strawberries overrun - Borovinki dead ...