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One more night AKA No Frost Required

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It was funny old weather again today, cold then later on in the day it heated up a bit. Judging by the weather forecast for tonight it’s supposedly the last one where there’s a possibility of frost (London has a low of 3 degrees tonight and then tomorrow night it goes up to 7). Our hotchpotch collection of frost protection is out in full force this evening complete with an old duvet cover thrown over some of the spuds (we got that great idea off twitter the other morning!) One of the potato plants is even starting to form flower buds. How long have they been in the ground again?

Also the dahlia’s are starting to show through so some of that black membrane we bought to stick under the decking before it went up has been thrown over the top. What month is it again? And whilst you’re there, can you tell us the year? #gardeninginlockdown #canwecomeoutnow?

The lockdown lunacy has kicked in already

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During lockdown, things get you down a lot easier than normal and the cabin fever sets in hard at times but a walk down the garden gives us a bit of respite from that.

Our new thing is why wait until you got a dishful of teabags to bring down the compost heap at once when you can bring each tea bag down separately. Is lockdown finally making us lose our marbles? Or is it making us go out and appreciate the garden more?

On our single-tea-bag-compost-bin-trips we’ve seen a few things that have cheered us up:
(Top) The broad bean seedling we pulled up by accident the other week and hastily replanted into one of the raised beds is now flowering.
(Below) The clematis montana on its way flowering-wise with an old clock dumped beside it for no reason than to hide a housebrick coming through from next door.
(Lower) The lone anemone in the pot near the house that makes us smile! #lockdownlunacy #gardeningduringlockdown

We’ve got that “side of the pond plants” blues

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Another row of spuds went in on Saturday in the bed we were going to “rest” for this year and beside the pond we started on a mammoth task.A few years ago a friend of ours passed on some plants. A root of Comfrey and a thug of a thing (we never did find the name of but we know the plant oh so well now!) that looks like a low-growing privet that has purple flowers and spreads like wildfire! It’s taken over the bottom corner of the garden now (pic below) and it’s our new “work in progress” during the lockdown.

We did a little bit of hand weeding on Saturday and above is the result. It’s hard work and you know it’ll keep coming back so we’ll have to be on our guard for the next few months but it’s a darn sight better. We will keep a little bit of it about though as we do need a bit of wildness by the pond for the frogs and wildlife to hide but not too much like it is now! #lockdowngardening #there’sneveranendtogardening