Flighty's plot

but I’m not really in the mood for blogging, or indeed plotting, today which is mostly down the still miserable weather and the time of year.

I want to do a post about the pot marigolds Flighty’s favourites meantime how about this almost white one from May 2020.

Have a good week, and take care!

With the weather having been so unsettled recently I’ve not been to the plot as much as I would have liked.  I go most days, weather permitting, even if it’s just to have a quick look round before heading back home.  It gets me out for some exercise and fresh air for a short while which is always welcome, especially at this time of year and yesterday I did that as it was dry and sunny.

 

Although there’s been plenty of rain the plot is soggy but thankfully not waterlogged, as other parts of the site now are.   The rose Pretty Lady has lost most of its leaves but there are still a handful of flowers on it.

 

 

Looking closely at the sedum (iceplant) I can see new growth already starting to appear.

 

 

The cornus(dogwood) is now shedding leaves which I’ll collect and put in a couple of old compost bags for now.  Once I’ve emptied the compost bin, a job I’ve not yet started, they’ll go in that.

Having spent an hour plot pottering, and chatted with the robin, I was ready to head home for a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits.

Have a good weekend, and take care!

This morning it’s dry and sunny, although breezy and chilly, and with all the rain over the past week the ground is rather soggy.  Needless to say my plot visits have been just to take a look round to make sure that all is okay after the days when it’s been very wet and windy.

Not surprisingly the last of the annual flowers have now finally finished, with these cosmos being being the only ones left worth taking a photo of.

Once the ground has dried I’ll be clearing the flower patches, after collecting  more seeds .

 

The sedum is still providing plenty of interest.  It has lost most of it’s leaves exposing the very pale flower stems.

The red flower heads have all changed to a chocolate colour, except this one.

This coming week looks like being mostly dry and sunny, which will be most welcome if it is.

Have a good week, and take care!

is the title of this wonderful nostalgic 1958 Calendar picture by the artist Ronald Lampitt.

Thanks to Helen Day, who does the Ladybird Fly Away Home  website, for putting this picture on Bluesky recently where I follow her.

Have a good week, and take care!

from Sunday’s post it’s not been a reasonable plotting week as it’s mostly been damp and dull with plenty of rain.

On Monday I cut the comfrey for the fourth time this year then put the leaves in the plastic compost bin.

I also moved a few errant raspberry plants, and surprisingly I’m still picking a few fruit.

 

Yesterday I went to the plot in the afternoon, as it was dry and sunny after a wet morning. I dead-headed the asters that are by the shed, and when I put the prunings in the plastic compost bin I found it was really warm.

I forgot to mention that about a month ago I received a lovely card and three packets of saved flower seeds from online friend Debbie, who lives in Plymouth.  She wrote…I was sorting out some seeds and thought you may like to give these a try on your plot and/or windowsill.  They’re a blue Aquilegia, Geum Oranges and Lemons and a yellow Viola. I’m looking forward to growing them on the plot, and the Viola on the windowsill as well.

Have a good weekend, and take care!

have been damp and dull, with plenty of rain and windy at times, but thankfully the stormy weather didn’t affect here much.

 

My visit to the plot today was the first since last Wednesday.  It was dry and sunny, and the ground was nowhere near as soggy as I expected it to be.

 

 

 

Not surprisingly the weather has just about finished off the last of the annual flowers with only a few cosmos and sunflowers not looking past their best.

 

 

 

A good indication that we’re now well into autumn is the colour of the leaves on the cornus (dogwood).

As you see the bottom half is still green whilst the top has changed to a deep brownish-red.

 

The week ahead is looking quite reasonable weatherwise so I look forward to doing some autumn plotting.

Have a good week, and take care!

I only have one compost bin which at this time of year is generally full. That makes if difficult to completely dig out all the compost over the coming months as I want to do.  However I’ve borrowed this old unused plastic compost bin into which I’ll put any uncomposted material from my bin along with anything I would normally be adding to it.

I’ll only digging  out, and sieving, one barrowload at a time when the weather is okay so it’ll take a while over the coming weeks.  I’ll be putting most directly on the vegetables patches but some will go under the blackberry bush, to the right in the picture, for use when planting and sowing next spring. Once my compost bin has been cleared I will empty the contents of the plastic bin back into it to give me a good start for next year.

Have a good weekend, and take care!