The Mock Turtle

Look at the bloody chaos I'm dealing with. I went to my favourite independent garden centre and they had almost nothing left, no bedding plants at all so I have a complete lack of colour.

I'm also disappointed in the farmer gracy bulbs, half of them still haven't done anything at all. A few rotted away completely and this is the only flower on the dahlia which did grow well.

How disappointing Shoe. The flower you do have is very pretty. Mine have done well so far, although the dahlias haven't got as far as flowering yet

That is a gorgeous colour, Shoe.

Smal, we have potatoes, onions, kale, courgettes and two pumpkin plants donated by our neighbours.

Further adventures in pergola building!

That looks very professional! What are you going to grow up the sides / over the top?

I have fences now and a huge bed made of railway sleepers. I need all the compost to fill it now. it's going to cost a fortune.

That looks amazing!

We built it around the existing clematis and honeysuckle so the plan is to try and train it over the pergola.

Looks brilliant Jupiter! Have you got furniture for underneath it?

That looks really good Cos, did you build it? You really will need vast amounts of compost! I couldn't believe how much compost it took to fill some of our pretty small new areas, its not easy to come by right now either.

I think there’s a waste collection company which advertises on Sam FM that also supplies topsoil, might something like that be cheaper for your beds Cos? I can’t remember the company but it was a man’s name then Rubbish, like Derek’s Rubbish but I don’t think it was Derek, which always made me smirk because it appeared to be a claim to being shit.

Tom's Rubbish Clearance?

There's loads who deliver. I wish I'd ordered by delivery now, but I never thought I'd need so much. It must have been 700L at least!

That’s it, thanks smal!

https://www.tomsrubbish.com/topsoil

Thanks! I've seen the van driving around and was thinking of ordering some rather than trying to lug compost bags around myself.

We had someone in who did the fences, beds and a patio. They were very cheap but have done a crackingly good job.

Arthur David have got some compost back in stock I think.

smalex wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:55 am Looks brilliant Jupiter! Have you got furniture for underneath it?

That looks really good Cos, did you build it? You really will need vast amounts of compost! I couldn't believe how much compost it took to fill some of our pretty small new areas, its not easy to come by right now either.

We have a granite table and benches that we inherited with the house that will move there. But we need a mini digger to move them as they weigh a tonne

wendy james wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:31 pm Arthur David have got some compost back in stock I think.

Oh good call! I'll have a scout there and Mr Cos is going to sort out Tom's rubbish for some rubbish removal and topsoil at the same time.

Sunflower question: should I pinch out the little growth between the main stem and the leaf “branches” like you do with tomatoes?

One of our sunflowers has 11 buds!

No! It might generate loads of side flowers! This is exciting. I grow Kong sunflowers and they do this, they have a main head and a billion side flowers.

Yes I think their going to make extra heads. We’re excited to see which colours come because we’ve totally lost track of which ones were which!

Veg coming on well. And The raspberries are tremendous this year!

Wow!