The Gardening Thread

I've seen those cazypops, they look really good

Remember this from last year ?





This year we are trailing yellow ones on the wishing well

Ooooh I like them!

Only thing I've planted so far is some wild flowers and plants in tubs to grow for my tortoise. They look pretty but once I pick some and put in his bowl he devours them so they must be appreciated

A few pics from various angles   

 

 

 

 

Not to me they're not   Some things like the nasturtiums seem to have just stopped growing completely.  Nothing's being left to dry out either as I water most evenings when it's been a hot dry day.  I think for next year I need to change the compost, chuck in some fertiliser pellets and hope that works.

  I'm also seriously thinking about seeing if I can get an allotment as I could then get a greenhouse up and get my seeds started a lot earlier.  At the moment I have to wait until all frosts are passed as I cannot start stuff on the windows in the flat as my hooligan cats would just eat them    An allotment would also give me extra space to move tubs & baskets that were past their best from the courtyard onto the allotment to die down at their own pace (spring bulbs for example) and replace them with flowers that were at the best...or well grown young plants   It's SO frustrating not having a proper garden as there's nothing I love more than having my hands in the soil

  I think I'll call into the council offices tomorrow morning when I finish work at 9am and see what advice they can give me.  Hopefully there won't be TOO big a waiting list  

I suppose I could always be rather cheeky and just hand it over in person tomorrow morning   Why wait an extra 24hrs?

@gillykat good luck to with the allotment, I've been thinking about saving up to buy one here (there's like €1,000 and you can have plumbing and electricity haha, they're ace!) although I travel a lot so not sure. Would quite like to have a bee hive if I get one.

I've been away for a month an a half really (well was back for a week in between) but only one plant on my balcony is dying. The tomato plants are all growing tomatoes, much bigger than the ones I got last year although the plants are tiny (got a propagator now so will start growing them earlier next year), the pepper plants are still growing but are looking great and the two basil plants and thyme are looking lovely. Also growing some orange flowers in a box which hangs over the balcony (and will be on the other side of the cat net when we reinstall it, using washing lines instead of string this year hahaha) which are looking fairly nice although seem to have past their best. Would like to get a few more boxes which go off the side for other flowers, to try and attract butterflies and things as the cats absolutely love watching them and attempting to catch them.

My peas all does, gutted, so I've emptied their box. They were on the floor of the balcony and Carlotta loves rolling about in the soil in that particular plant pot so I've just left it there full of soil for her haha. Hopefully next year I'll finally get a good crop of peas, third time lucky? Also got an olive bush this year, bought a pre-grown one. Not sure when it will fruit, of it will at all this year. I'm not a fan of olives but my man is, and apparently the leaves are good for you too, so it's more of an experiment haha. If it fruits, great, but if not then it's no big deal.