Saturday 21 April 2018

Gardening Mojo

Every March I get worried that my love of growing food has gone. I really don't want to go outside and fiddle about with pots and compost.
Usually I get up just enough enthusiasm to start with tomatoes as they are so easy and never let me down and always, by the time they've got big enough to pot on my mojo has returned.

This year has been the same, thank goodness the sunshine arrived just in time, and at last I was out there before 7.30 on Thursday morning weeding the bit where the climbing French beans will go.
The second-early potatoes have gone in and first-earlies earthed up. I've emptied a compost bin onto the bean/pea bed and Col has sown beetroot.
For the greenhouse........... the sweet-pointy peppers and aubergine seedlings have been transferred into bigger pots and I have 2 cucumber plants left......one keeled over and all the tomatoes are looking good.

Now for a busy weekend  with mangetout peas and sunflowers and other garden  things.

Have a good weekend
Back Monday
Sue

40 comments:

  1. Goodness, you're way ahead of me. It sounds great.
    J x

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  2. Same here, I really must get started, having a new puppy is no excuse (she says lamely).

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    1. I can imagine a new puppy will keep you busy

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  3. French bean seeds are in even though I have no where to grow them? I am going to miss my garden this summer, our first by the sea.

    I have been trying without success thus far, to get your blog on my blog list. When eventually it appears I have every reason to think you will be listed 26 times!

    LX

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    1. Strange about the blog list problems.
      Dear Blogger does like to be a pain sometimes.
      I grew French climbing beans in pots when we in town in 2016, they did OK - need plenty of water and feed

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    2. The climbing french beans in pots are ready to go. Like you I have had huge success with them in pots. Just a matter as to how they get on in the sea air?

      LX

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  4. A start as yet to be made here, I am blaming the weather.

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    1. Luckily we've had 5 warm days so I'm rejuvenated

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  5. Your energy makes me feel downright puny, although I did manage to plant six rock plants and some pansy plants yesterday so all is not lost.

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    1. Its taken right until Mid April for me to get up the energy!

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  6. I think it is programmed into you, even if you do it on a smaller scale these days. You are way ahead of us!

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    1. In the genes.....maybe.... I seem to come from a line of Farmers way back

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  7. Your gardening mojo has obviously kicked in at last, well done on getting it back. Lots planted already....having sunshine does make you feel like getting on with it doesn't it?

    I've just read your comment on Sue's blog and just want to send you a hug and good wishes x

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    1. Mid April is the latest it's been before the mojo comes back - I was getting worried.
      I'll post about Addenbrookes next week

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    2. I read your comment too and was concerned xx

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  8. I know exactly what you mean, you just need a little something to spur you on. I'm the same with my needlework. Then I watch a youtube of something or other and get the urge to get it all out again.
    Briony
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    1. Sunshine and warmth is the best thing for getting me outside

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  9. I do not garden but I heartily enjoy coming along for the ride with several bloggers that do and that share their activities. Glad to have found you over the last year so I can add you to my "adventures."

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    1. Thank you for finding me and reading, glad you enjoy the gardening stuff

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  10. I admit that I'm not thinking of doing too much food this year. I'll be away for six weeks visiting Mum (which I wouldn't give up for the world!) and it just doesn't seem to work out so well. I think I am going to do more flowers this year to attract some wildlife to the garden and hopefully get some wonderful photos!

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    1. We always had to wait until late in the year to get away especially once we were growing to sell. Even if we left someone to look after things and do watering there was always something dead when we got back!

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  11. I know how you feel, I lost my mojo a bit, but now really got stuck into and enjoying it.

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    1. I hope the warm weather lasts so I can keep going now I've started.

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  12. We have been away for a few days to attend a funeral so I'm just catching up with the blog posts today. My second grandson was born last Monday morning, the same morning as your little granddaughter : ) Congratulations to all your family and I hope everything is going well.

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    1. Oh congratulations! Lovely news. We are still waiting to see her as we've both had nasty colds which we didn't want to pass on. we've seen lots of photos on facebook but that's not quite the same

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  13. Many a cucumber juvenile has had a sorry ending in my care! I'm with you on being a fair weather gardener. x

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    1. One day perfectly OK cucumber plantlet- next day collapsed!

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  14. Same here Sue, a few days in the garden and I feel like a new woman!! Glad you can still fit some veggie growing in, especially as it is something you have done for years (and know what you are doing) it it doesn't rain tomorrow I shall be doing some direct sowing as the chicken will be put away in the orchard for the summer. x

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    1. I'm not sure about knowing what I'm doing because this year I can't get a single courgette seed to germinate!

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  15. I am about to start almost three weeks of relief teaching work and want to get the last of my veg patch seedlings in before I'm too distracted to get it done. Didn't help that I bought two punnets of cornflower seedlings yesterday, can't resist their beautiful blue! Happy gardening! Meg:)

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    1. I'm hoping for cornflowers in my mini-cutting garden. Lots of seeds of different annuals were raked in and some are coming up.

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  16. I hope your mojo holds out! We're having a spectacular day here in Oregon, USA. Blue sky and sunshine. Here's hoping your weather is warm and nice. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

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    1. Same this side of the Atlantic too, although being England I'm sure it won't last much longer

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  17. I don't think you are alone in that post winter worrisome feeling. This year, the garden is very low on my list of priorities, so we'll see. Glad you've found your mojo!

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  18. I never had a gardening mojo, but I do love to see a nice garden or rows of lovingly tended vegetables.

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  19. Your mojo came back just when you needed it to.

    God bless.

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  20. These past two weeks I've bought plants including 2 red tomato plants and a pair tomato plant. Not putting out as many as 2 yrs ago. Will plant wax beans and lettuce which grow well. Tomatoes are hopefully going to grow. I have had problems here. Happy week!

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  21. I do enjoy gardening I just have to be in the right mood which is fine if I wake up and have the urge to be outside or plan to spend a day in the garden but when D mentions the words 'are you going to go in the garden today' that immediately switches me off as it then becomes a chore instead of something I do for pleasure. I do wish he would learn after 20 years just to let me get on with it.

    Mitzi

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  22. Gardening is very therapeutic. My dad grew veg when we were small, obviously to feed the family back in the 1950s. He had a huge allotment next to an orchard. I spent many happy hours with him there. As time went by he loved to grow flowers, and had the biggest mums you can imagine. He also liked lovely green hedges, all trimmed up. My mum loved roses - I do too. You and Col remind me of my parents with their love of gardening. We can't grow veg at our house, even though we have the room. The septic is in the sunny part of the property, and the rest is too shaded. I love growing flowers though, and geraniums are a particular delight to me. Keep up the good work Sue, I love hearing about it all.

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