2025 - What I did today

Too wet to do anything meaningful outside. I planted some Burpless Tasty Green cucumbers in 2 pots in GH2.
Picked some Perennial kale and turned some into cuttings in a jam jar on the kitchen windowsill. The leaves became seaweed!

Did a bit more on the Meccano, sorry, metal shed build. After using coach bolts to fasten the 4X4's together to set the shed on ,I am in a position to start building it. This is as far as I got this evening after shopping and dog walking.
Hopefully, weather permitting I, should be able to just about finish the build tomorrow!

Another day building the shed from hell.

I thought I might get it finished, having been working on it all day but it wasn't to be!

I managed to get all the sides on so hopefully get the roof and doors done tomorrow?

That is a very fine shed, I'm jealous.

A bit more work on the shed today with the roof stays now in place and about half the cladding on it. I was defeated by the wind and the rain in the end!

Tied in the tomatoes.

Let me think.....oh I remember, weeding!

Transplanting and sowing, tidying and picking.

Transplanted snail begonia and parsley .
Sowed Pak Choi

I've had a blazing hot day here today, and it got even muggier when it clouded over for an hour or so. I thought I would pass out!

I decided that what had to take top priority today was to dig the flower bed on the left of the porch, as the flowers that I bought last week were suffering in the buckets where I had temporarily planted them.

It was the Dense blazing star and the geranium that looks very much like 'Johnson's Blue' that suffered the most. I want the bed to be as deep as the porch, and up to the corner of the house. It has grass at the moment, in places very patchy, along with a rhubarb, mock orange and a massive hosta.

I tried to get the hosta moved, but there's absolutely no way I could shift that at the moment - that will have to wait until it has died down in the autumn. I've dug over about a third, and pulled out all the grass roots that I could find. The soil is very dry near the house, and very sandy all over. It will need a lot of organic material, I think. I planted up the suffering plants and had to call it a day. It's just too warm, and I was getting very dehydrated despite constantly drinking water.

My other flowers will have to wait nicely in their pots for their turn.

Flower bed before.... while Jay is picking rhubarb
   

Flower bed half way through the digging