SixOnSaturday

Some needed rainfall on Sunday and Monday just gone , a good soaking . It made for a damp gardener on Sunday , but I did get quite a pile done . I am off study for this come week , nothing much planned but it will involve gardening and trips to Wisley and Waterperry . I hope their borderline are still give ear on so I can get some inspiration for some new planting space I have carve out of the lawn . Time for Six on Saturday then – Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything , a flower , a pest , a succeeder , a nonstarter , wildlife , a grass , foliage , anything at all . Join in !

Here are mine for this week .

1 – I was be after to take a photo of an ivy bloom , then this fella photobombed the scene . Ivy flowers are pretty unlovely , but they are late time of year manna from heaven for motley pollinators . I am intimately certain this is a red full admiral flutterby .

2 – Begonia oojamaflip . I bought a little pack of these 3 or 4 years back . I put them in one of the wooden planters on the terrace , not really anticipate them to last , being tender . Each year they have come back , although there is only one result now . Perhaps this is their last hooray .

3 – Dahlia ‘ swan birdsong ’ . The Dahlia pinnata have finally arrived at the political party , fashionably late . Just in the snick of time really . Normally we have had our first frost by this time in October , but while the temperature is foretell to drop to 5 ° c or so at night , seems likely that we ’ll get no frost for the next duet of weeks . I shall bask them while they last . This one is a keeper , I like it . I ’ll just leave the tubers in the flat coat this year . Dahlias can stand a morsel of cold , but they do n’t care being dusty and smashed . If drainage is good , in the milder parts of the body politic they are fine in the undercoat . I tested this theory last yr , storing one-half and pass on one-half where they stood . The stored ones all dry out out and died , overcome the target !

4 – Salvia ‘ amistad ’ . Grown from cuttings take in the summer . They have a repute as an easy to rootle plant and I was not disappoint . They have been pot up for a couple of months and are now flowering a slight , an unexpected bonus . As a precautional measure they will stay put in the greenhouse till the spring . I was in Paris for the day sooner in the workweek for work , and while I did n’t have a stack of time to dawdle , I did see an tremendous tie-up of s. amistad in a paving material plantation owner . It was very effectiveen masse shot , but I think it would have been improve still further if blend with something else .

5 – scented pea , seed . I grew sweet peas in number for the first time last year , just a random choice of ending - of - season - sales event seeds . I bask the process , sowing in October , institute in March and then having a couple of months of mown flowers for the kitchen . I ’ve sow in next year ’s plants , 5 or 6 seeds to each 1L pot . I grease one’s palms some from Johnson ’s , a specialist sweet pea plant grower , and some were sale line of work like last class . I may have exaggerate it . I figure I can have some turn up something or other in the borders as well as on the veggie plot .

6 – The Extension!I have become a compost grind over the last class , ghost over the temperature , the commixture , sourcing the ingredients , the turning relative frequency , you name it . I decide that I will replicate down on the compost front . This class I have buy the farm from using two bays with a spare for turn , to using all three . With the object of being ego - sufficient in compost next class , I have append another two embayment . The wood is all deconstructed pallet so has n’t be me anything to construct bar a few screws . I have an endless supply of ingredients that I can bring from off site . To get faster composting , it ’s good to fill a bay in one go rather than adding bits and bob over time .

To fill a bay laurel I have found I need 4 bag of wise cavalry manure , four bags of spent hop , and a onus of cardboard . I add something from each in layers until the bay is full . The plenty I build like this recently got to over 60 ° c in just a few day . In theory , if reverse every two or three days , it could be ready to practice in a calendar month . In recitation I attempt to grow once a week , so it may be more like 3 month before I could habituate .

Have a fabulous gardening weekend , do n’t forget to check back in as more link are added during the sidereal day .

I ’ll be back next weekend with another # SixOnSaturday .

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