A glorious day

And productive too 

The day started very foggy but it soon turned into a beautiful sunny day 

Sheets on the line 

And I got stuck in 

The back gardens had suffered. 

They were all overgrown with weeds and there were dead plants everywhere 

With a little, lots!  Of help from terry I upended the bigger pots and cleaned them out 

If any potting mix could be saved. But mostly it was all old and needed to go 

Full of weeds that had matted and it was just too hard to clear them out 

We weeded and pruned and pulled out all the plants that could be saved 

And got myself a clean slate 

Once that was cleaned up off I went to bunings with hubby 

I got six bags of potting mix

Lots of punnets of seedlings 

And home again to begin 

This was one I saved. I emptied the pot. Saved the plant and repotted 

I rejuvenated the soil in these and planted them with cuttings I had taken last year. 

Well not the middle one. I bought that one. It was white. I don’t have any white 

Pig face type plants. 

But the ones on either side I grew over winter. 

Seedlings were planted in these pots after removing the dead plants and most of the potting mix. I mixed in new 

Potting mix and planted them out 

This was the worst. I’m actually sorry I didn’t take a before shot. 

Then you would see just how much work was done here 

But it’s looking much better now. 

Tubs were topped up with more potting mix 

Plants were saved if they had to come out to get the weeds out 

Yup. It was that bad, and replanted 

All finished pots then got a cover of mulch to help keep them from drying out over summer 

And well watered in. 

The next couple of days it’s going to be warm but then we will get another lot of cold and rainy days 

Which is fine. They will all need the water 

I still have many pots I need to fill and plant out 

But I’ve run out of potting mix 

And I’m pooped 

I’ll leave that for tomorrow 

I’ll get another dose of vitamin D 

It was lovely to be outside and busy 

Hope you can get to spend a little while outside too 

See ya xxx