I wonder if me going fishing for my tea will fall under that category...………………………….

Well it's sort of pinkish

Huge congratulations for yesterday, sorry I'm late.

Suns shining

Tatties planted this morning, bright and breezy here but quite warm.

My dad used to make his own with leaf mould and soil from mole hills, he didn't sterilise it though and looking at some of the odd weeds that come up in my pots nor do Westmoreland either lol

I grow my onions from seed these days as I have had a couple of poor results from sets in the past, I have just transplanted some Ailsa Craig into the raised bed, strong looking plants.

My Dad always used wood ash round his raspberries in the spring, so did his Dad before him who was a commercial nurseryman. I don't make my own wood ash but I still add some potash at this time of year.

20cm or 8 inches across, very impressive, we have a few different young plants most of which have flower buds this year, first time flowering on this plant.

Belated Birthday wishes from me

Now fully open, the scent at night is so strong, such an ugly plant with such fabulous flowers.

I intend to have some plants that will spill over the rocks to soften the edge and hide the liner, the water will still come up a few more inches as it's not up to the overflow level yet.

Quite a bit more work done around the pond today, using the excess pond liner hanging over the edges, I have created some bog plant areas. If you imagine a letter M shape, I have made a trench and the folded in the liner still connected to the main pond, then back filled with soil for the boggy marg...

The epiphytes are starting to flower again, this one's called Grenatum, the bud should be open tonight, at the moment it smells like talcum powder !!

Autumn fruiting varieties will produce on old wood, I used to half prune mine to get some earlier and some later fruits to avoid getting a glut all at one time.