I’ve had two trays of veg waiting to be planted. One of leeks and one of kale. Today we were on a gardening day.
First things first, we’d planned to water both front and back gardens, so I fitted the new adapter to the kitchen tap, connected the hose and turned on the tap. Water flowed out to the the front garden where Scamp was ready with the sprinkler and give the plants a good soaking. Not one drop dripped into the sink. We’ve struggled with an inadequate, poorly designed tap connector for years but this new one just works!
When Scamp was finished watering the front garden, I took over to do the back. The only mistake I made was forgetting to keep the sprinkler on when I’d turned the tap off, because if you disconnect the hose, the back pressure washes the inside of the kitchen windows, and the inside sill! Hopefully I’ll remember next time!
Scamp walked down to the Shops to get potatoes for tonight’s dinner and while she was out I planted out my kale and leeks. Eight leeks planted in a pot and six kale plants in the raised bed. Not so raised as it was last year because that top part of the wooden frame is totally rotted through, so the soil level is reduced a bit. I also planted two of my sunflower seedlings in the raised bed. I think, in retrospect that I may have been a bit hasty in planting them out. I may re-pot them tomorrow into big pots instead. Easier to move around, because in these dry days they might benefit from being in a position a bit sheltered from the direct sunlight. Y’see, I do listen to Scamp sometimes.
After lunch, I took myself out for a walk in St Mo’s with my trusty A7 and a large, heavy macro lens, looking for damselflies. I did find some, but they were too skittish and as soon as I got close enough to photograph, they flew away. Hopefully they will calm down in the weeks to come. PoD was taken in the garden and is a couple of Lupins with a Golden Torch rhododendron in the background. If truth be told, and it rarely is, it’s actually two shots stuck together in Photoshop. Photoshop’s AI is getting better all the time. While I was out, Scamp was trimming the grass edges of the paving stones. We need the paving stones to provide a solid surface in the swamp that is the back garden in the winter, but it’s hard to strim right up to them, so trimming the grass is easier than strimming in this case. The problem is that the work is backbreaking, so a little at a time is the best way.
Later when I returned we sat in the sun, Scamp with a Pimms and me with a beer and discussed Life, the Universe and Everything and agreed that the answer probably is 42.
Dinner was stew and sausages with cabbage and Jersey Royal potatoes. Scamp substituted salmon for the stew and sausages which was probably the right thing to do, because the stew was a bit tough.
Spoke to Jamie and discussed the joys of having hot water on tap, now that his old boiler has been replaced. Also spoke about the forthcoming Open Garden event that they are taking part in for the first time next week, all being well.
Tomorrow Scamp is hoping to meet up with June for coffee. I intend to do that potting up of the sunflowers.