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End April
April seems to have lots of posts of chat… I’m not sure that April is the month to tell yourself you are going to BOSS IT but hey I needed a bit of a shove, nudge, push and it felt right at the when I said it – Looking back I have not BOSSED it but the thought that I set that as my goal actually has helped – I have had many down days probably just as many as any other time – but I have kept telling myself, you said you were going to boss it so get bossing girl. Lessons – learnt or thought about Take things…
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April Update
Ok its nearly the end of April 23/04/20 to be exact – I feel crappy – this gardening malarkey is making me crazy – I mean it is probably good for me as all I want to do is run run run far away from it – and I can’t! 🙁 – its so hot in the day (UK warm) everything is drying out and in need of water and and ATTENTION and and and… then its so bloody cold at night that everything is freezing freezing freezing – so watering is a nightmare – planting up seeds is a nightmare – this gardening is a nightmare… I am a…
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Mid April
As the title suggests it is mid April already and today I don’t feel like I am BOSSING it (which is Aprils theme…) – for the uber observant you might see the dates are odd – I wrote this mid April but didn’t post until 23/04/21 – I feel deflated and just like I am going to fail… I know all that ‘fail’ crap like what is it about – I mean when my friends of family wobble I give them the medicine – don’t worry and don’t wobble you will be fine – hold on tight you will be fine. insert a page or 2 pics from charlies book…
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Companion Planting
I have watched and heard of companion planting – my basic very basic explanation is planting things near each other to discourage pests that cause damage EG Green Fly – I actually like these little monsters BUT they destroy my plant babies and bud so sorry gorgeous monsters you have to go… I am not really OK with bug spray – sigh I mean I am also not OK with losing a whole tray of new seeds to monsters… So alternatives Companion Planting – I am going to see what happens… appears to be more for Veg plants – I am going to see what happens with flower plants… First…
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Godetia Crown
I have never grown Godetia before to be fair I’m not sure I have heard of it before – anyway I fell a bit in love with a picture and write up I saw and oh next thing I know it was in my basket… The seed I am growing is from Higgledy Garden I am sowing mine this year in April and see how I get on… but from reading you could autumn sow… September time. I – think / hope / try- a few different ways of sowing – they don’t like transplanting unless lots of earth with them is what Higgledy says so Im going to try…
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Sweet Peas
I think I have a love hate relationship with these… I adore them but boy I personally don’t find them easy to grow… they need attention they are not something you can kind of just chuck in and let them get on with it – in my experience anyway. I am all for planting seeds – I love it – but these are very cheap to buy from your local garden centre / nursery if you just want a bucket – like seriously £2.00 for 10… – local supermarket probably does them in a cute bucket!!! – however if you want oooooddddles or if you want a specific variety or…
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Lupins
Lupins – total love (lolz everything on here at the moment is total love..) I grew these for the first time in 2019 as my mother wanted to do some amazing display buckets for my brother and his now wife’s wedding day. I didn’t grow them from seed – I picked up a few from one of our local garden nurseries while they were seedlings or just past and they grew into gorgeous – and they were gorgeous plants / flowers – I grew them in pots and kept them in pots… they have come back every year since (mum told me she could never keep them in the garden…
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Cosmos
I have grown Cosmos twice before – first time I bought about 10 plants from a market near where I was working – OMG they were just adorable – I was IN LOVE so the next year I decided that I would grow them from seed and have a garden just bursting with Cosmos – like you can’t have too much of this can you… ha ha – well it was horrid – it was amazonial – it was also full of black fly all of which I could have coped with however I hardly had any flowers and when they did come I was kind of past waiting and…
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Bouquet Practice – April
So bouquets… posies… or just random cutting from the garden… I am not sure but… at the moment I tend to let fear of my arrangements looking pretty dreadful stop me from just having a go – so since this month is BOSSING it month I’m going to start this… I am hoping to do lots as practice makes perfection– nah – I mean what does perfection even mean…? So practice brings improvement and hopefully will help me try different things and help develop different styles Above is a random bunch of flowers – well I guess technically foliage? Cut from my garden 03/04/21 – they are growing in the…
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April
Bl**dy FREEZING… well maybe not… but cold!!! Very Cold – its making me kinda garden crazy – I want to get my stuff out out out – especially things like my sweet peas – but as we say in the Cricket World – kid you can’t change the weather… So we start the month actually taking as much advantage as possible from sunshine and warmth that we do get and trying to pot up somethings – I think my focus is actually going to have to be these sweet peas and planting the rest of my seeds. Below is direct from budtoseed website – I just keep re-reading it –…