What a beautiful day Sunday was, dawned warm and sunny and stayed that way all day long. For the first time this year I enjoyed the first cuppa of the day outside, among the feeding birds and a garden full of new season potential.
I just pottered in the home garden all day long (with a break to watch the Australian Grand Prix, obvs). We've decided to remove the rampant holly bushes this year, so I attacked the first blighter - which proved to be rather stronger than the aged fork that I have been using to work the compost! Ooops. Another one bites the dust.....
Next job was to empty out the pots then refill them with compost and fertiliser. Ruth will probably be all creative when it's time to plant them up.
We saved a lot of seeds from last year's tallest sunflower, so these were popped in today. Everybody loves a sunflower right? Wrong! My son Sam thinks they are the work of the devil! Hard lines Sam, we're growing them anyway.
The tomato bags were also refilled and fertilised, and moved into position. Our tomatoes last year were fabulous and gave us more fruit than we could manage. Same again in 2017 please.
My final little project was to turn the compost. Everyone else sees this as my crazy little scheme, but they will love it when we have a lovely source of homemade crumbly plant food. It's doing OK but is a little on the slimy side, so there will be much more brown stuff going in this week. Back in you go....
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