I planted out my maincrop spuds today. I'd dig out the camera but it looks a smidge weird down the veg patch as most of the fence around it is down as it finally succumbed to rot, just before the lockdown started so I've not been able to get to Wickes to get the replacement timber... Almost out of potting compost now too and I don't have any gro-bags yet for the tomatoes, that needed potting on today. Hope this situation eases soon.
Looks like @Helmut Visor will take the honours on either or both of those criteria, I'm afraid, DD. I don't drink beer so my 'beer fridge' is, literally, non-existent. In reality, I'm pretty close to tee-total and beer invariably gives me migraine - maybe it's the hops or something, because I've even had a migraine after a shandy! Alcohol, generally, has little to no interest, for me - predominantly because even after imbibing only small quantities I often feel like utter shite the morning afterwards. I have a bottle of "THE LAKES" salted caramel vodka liqueur (which I love) in the drinks cupboard which has been unopened for about 18 months now ...... uhmmmm ..... the bottle, not the cupboard - the wife likes her occasional gin!! I only bought the vodka because I tried some a few years ago, bought a small bottle which lasted over a year and from which I had an occasional small glass, the rest went to visitors! And, sadly, I'll DEFINITELY disappoint on the English breakfast - I don't eat bacon, sausage, mushrooms, black pudding ... or, in fact ANYTHING that has a 'flavour' to it! I am in the ranks of "ultra fussy eaters" with a restricted diet that most people find to be in the realms of the ridiculous! In fact, I actually prefer an American breakfast - two eggs over easy, hash browns, buttermilk pancake, wheat toast and jelly, please. But, if a bowl of cereal will suffice and a shot or two of gin, then I might be able to sort something out for the GMU ......... OK, back to the garden and the pond for me - my dirty water pump has failed so I'm having to bail out by hand! Hopefully it will be complete later today and I'll put some pictures up of the during and after phases!
Wandered down the garden this morning to open up the greenhouse to find all of my beetroot seedlings have been either covered over by earth or dug up. We have both foxes and badgers near us and the damage they cause in my veg patch is frequent and large scale. They seemed to like the seedlings I had grown in the greenhouse in newspaper pots, which I had only planted out the day before... If they had to dig why not use the middle bed - that will have the pumpkins in it later on but right now it's empty! The early spuds in the far bed have been dug up twice now as have the onions in one of the other row of beds to the right of this shot. I could build removable frames over the beds using wire mesh to just allow the pollinators in, or go the whole hog and invest in a walk-in cage around the whole veg patch, but neither would be exactly easy on the eye. On the plus side it would also stop the neighbourhood cats using the beds as their personal litter boxes, which is a daily war I will never win.
A red poll taken March 2017.The second picture of the "starling" should have said the dead leaves show it was taken in November as stated so it can't be a juvenile
Nice garden, Nice estate, how many pheasants do you release for the season. You do have a syndicate shoot surely.
