Weekend report-25/26 April

Bought for garden:
Wall mounted clothes airer
Pressure washer

Red cabbage seedlings have germinated.
Potatoes starting to sprout.
Runner beans looking strong and healthy starting to harden them off now, ready to plant out next weekend.

Monday 13th April

planted
Red Cabbage seeds
Potatoes- Carlingford, 10 seed potaoes planted in a total of three containers

Path!

New path up LH side of lawn.
Buff riven-textured slabs to match existing patio / paths.
Sadly not same size - 40cm vs 45cm.

Dug out trench.
Smoothed base with sand.
Layer of ready-mix slab base mortar.
Slabs x 10 - last 2 cut to fit around existing transverse path.

Left-hand scrap of lawn to be de-turfed and dug over for bedding.
Central rectangle to become 4 raised beds with gravelled walks between.

   

Easter weekend

Rosemary dug out and gone
Lawn edged and paths deweeded
Hebe hard pruned
Choisya lightly pruned to better shape
Started weeding around pond

Garden Centre

Visited Garden Centre:

For hanging baskets:
2 Tumbler tomatoes
Liners

For greenhouse:
1 Alicante tomato
1 Italian Plum tomato
1 Orange Pixie tomato
1 Red Bell Boy pepper
1 Yellow D'Asti Giallo pepper
1 Lemon Apple cucumber

3 vegetable planters
Seed potatoes -

1 Asparagus crown

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Dug over right-hand bed
Weeded
Added compost

Plants in greenhouse to grow on