Garden News

We came back to find that the squash has turned into a monster! It is right across the chamonile and almost into the honeysuckle. It has loads of blossoms and a couple of baby squash already showing. Amazing what can come from one tiny seed.

Below is a drawing to show the various plants. The bag of compost is gradually being used up. The tree stump has loads of sprouts which look really good against the fence. The path is what I need to decide about next. Not sure what to do with it. Any ideas?

The red sunflowers are lovely. Especially with the sun shining through them. They have loads of flowers on and more still to come.

I have been doing lots of felting and making myself laugh at what appears! I will show you tomorrow-after I get back from Rye. My friend and I are going for our summer holiday browse around the junk shops, though I am determined not to come back with anything too big! Last year it was a ladder, formerly used for apple picking. It stood in the little gap between bathroom and sitting room for most of the year-coming out at Christmas to be decorated as an alternative tree. Recently though I have put it to use as a bookshelf next to the bed and it works well.

This week has flown by. Time always does that towards the end of the holidays! Oh well.

I did do a bit of work today as I suddenly had a feeling of panic. It soon went though as I think I have done enough really and need to get back into the place now before I do much more!

Chamomile Lawn

The chamomile arrived in half term, but due to lack of time I only got around to planting it yesterday. This is the ground prepared last week-I have endlessly dug over, added compost, removed stones, and last week added a lovely layer of topsoil and some more compost. I dug a trench around it mainly to mark the area but hopefully it will stop the snails munching away on my little plants.
This is the chamomile I had left over-I think I will fit it into the gaps, or I might do a pot of it.

The information with the plants recommended planting them at about six inch spacing. I did this, then watered them in carefully. It is supposed to take about two weeks for them to settle in, then they will start growing and spreading out to fill the gaps. After I watered them, it started to rain-and rained for the rest of the day, all last night, and up until lunchtime today so I hope they are not too drowned.
I think I will gradually fill the trench around them with sand, then gravel or pebbles of some sort and maybe plant some of those ice plant type plants-their name escapes me at the moment. I have now also bought a bamboo-to start my dream of having a screen between us and upstairs. It is a lovely plant-like a small tree!
Cassie started complaining yesterday-so we tried the normal things-a couple of treats-some biscuits, some food, a fuss-but no-I think she was telling us off because it was raining! (Lily also does this-as if we can stop it!) In the end she just gave up and went out anyway. She spent quite some time sheltering in the empty compost bin, then just got soaked looking for frogs!