Talking Plants......

 The growing season is well and truly underway now.  Last Saturday, there was a plant fair at the local nurseries and the weather was gorgeous for it.  Growers from all over the country attended and the plant variety was amazing. Entry cost £8 each but proceeds were going to a local charity and we were able to go around the owner's very beautiful and extensive garden too, so we didn't mind paying.

It was so hot that, of course, we were obliged to eat a Mr Whippy ice cream complete with flake!

I ate mine whilst admiring the man in a kilt right in front of me 🤣😂......

On the home front, things are beginning to grow here too.  At Howard Drury's last meeting, the talk was on Pelargoniums and I bought a 'lucky dip' packet of seeds.  There were just 6 seeds in a pack for £5 and the excitement comes from seeing which variety/varieties were in the pack.  The 3 below struck first on the heat pad on the window ledge and 3 more have just begun to peep out from their cells in the greenhouse 😁 I can't wait to see what colour they are and what the foliage will be like.....

We have struggled to get the sweetcorn going at all.  They too were on the heat pad (with 2 seeds per cell) and only 6 came up.  Gray pushed a few more seeds into the empty cells and you can just see 2 more coming up in the front right hand corner.....

This is the sight which greeted me yesterday morning when I opened my bedroom curtains; full sunshine and a Mallard!  He was in the middle of the road outside my window enjoying the warmth of the sun 😂......

At the allotment we (Gray 😂) has planted broad beans, sprouts, potatoes, carrots, onions, spring onions & beetroot, French climbing beans, sugar snap peas.  Coming on nicely is the rhubarb ( we've already picked loads of it) raspberries and gooseberries.  If we have a summer like last year, we are hoping for a bumper crop to share with family and neighbours. 

At home in the greenhouse we have tomato plants, lettuce and mint, and I'm hoping to grow the same varieties of cucumber and yellow peppers as last year if I can find young seedlings in time......

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Thanks to those of you who commented on my last post.  I do appreciate it. 

This week's activities were/are

Monday: allotment, dentist (for me) and 15 cards to the shop (now 187)

 Tuesday: library day free

Wednesday : Family History group free

Thursday:  Black Country Living Museum free

Friday: Howard Drury's Gardening group (Roses) £5.50 each plus a donation for homemade cake 😉

Such a busy, busy week that we will be unable to meet up with our daughter and son-in-law this week for a cob at the pub.  Last Friday was lovely.  A leisurely drink and a chat.  

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Thanks for popping in.  Do stay safe and well wherever you happen to be,

Angie 💗