April Car Boot Sale Finds?

Apart from that mistake of the shelf unit, purchases have been virtually non existent. .

A pack of charity Christmas cards for £1 and that's  it!  [except from a few plants].

I bought a red pepper plant for £1 when none of my first sowing germinated. [Now they've eventually appeared I'm going to have plenty!] I wasn't going to bother with aubergines as my preferred way to use them is in a aubergine and tomato pasta sauce and just one aubergine makes quite a few portions but then someone had aubergine plants also for £1, I just bought one. Finally two courgette plants again for £1 each as I hadn't got around to sowing any. I have got enough cucumber and tomatoes through so won't need to buy those. Someone was selling 3 sweetcorn plants for £1 which I thought was a bit expensive but I'm sure there will be some cheaper later..... for some reason I forgot to get seeds....or peat pots to sow them in......

I'm not sure why my gardening mojo has vanished this year - maybe it's due to the years of having everything ruined by next door's cat, pigeons and slugs.

My 'fill a blog post with weird you tube things' yesterday brought several comments and Steve's comment of "how much peanut butter can a person stockpile" immediately brought to mind a vision of someone having cupboards full of jars of PNB and at the time of dire emergency opening the cupboard and being killed by getting hit on the head and buried under 100's of falling jars!! 

I think this could be a plot for Midsomer Murders!

I think I might have been reading too many crime novels!!

Back Tomorrow.......... unless..................!

Believable?

These were on the side bar when I was looking at Colette's Bealtaine Cottage site.

 Is this what they call Doom Scrolling?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zVYPGeh79Y

I like this one as it says Peanut Butter is the perfect food to store for an emergency - well I can agree with that one!

I said I was short of ideas for blog posts!!

I expect I'll  be better tomorrow 😄

The Last Saturday in April

 If only all the blossom on a fruit tree developed into fruit.

This is the Falstaff Minarette Apple,  ( a type for small gardens that grows straight up), this is it's 5th spring. There are more flowers this year than any previous and slightly later this year too which is hopeful. 

Earlier in the month the young pear tree was covered in white blossom but even if  a few of the blossom become fruit I expect wasps will ruin them like the two pears  they chomped their way through last year.

My annual try at getting Basil cuttings to root in water started this week. I took several cuttings from my 95p Aldi plant, hopefully some will produce roots. Not sure how they'll do because like last year the shoots are very lanky with few leaf nodes to turn into roots. Last year wasn't a huge success but I did have enough to use fresh leaves through the summer. 

In the garden I've 'done' the patio Yet Again with the wire scrapper thing that takes the top off all the weeds in the cracks. Then I poured boiling water over - hopefully that will set them back for a while. Also moved the last lot of compost onto one of the veg beds. I stopped making compost when rats ate their way in. I shall be pleased when the food waste council collection starts in June. There isn't much food waste but it'll be good to put the odd bits out for collection each week.

Having decided to resell the shelving unit I started searching around for other things ready to do a car boot sale in the summer. The grandchildren no longer need changing mat, toilet seat and potty and they've all hardly been used so just need a clean and they will sell plus some of the toys that they've all out grown. I found quite a few other things I'd like to see gone, so will definitely do a boot sale sometime. After every one I do I say Never Again but then 'stuff ' needs going and although I do donate to charity shops it's nice sometimes to get some money back. 

I shall keep my eye on the weather forecast for a sunny Sunday in May.

Hope you have a good weekend - I probably be back Monday - although at the moment my mind is a blank for what to write about.