Oooh, how exciting! I have cucumbers coming! Yes, I know most of you will have grown cucumbers umpteen times, but for me, this year is the first time, because although I've always known how to grow them, I've never had the correct conditions that I could devote solely to them. So, that happened this year, and wow! I'm chuffed to bits that I have been rewarded with lovely plants and what appears to be looking like a really good yield!
Now then, other goings on this week have been that I decided to plant up surplus wooden crates with annuals to poke through the borders, from gaps left after moving other large pots over to a different part of the garden. I planted up cosmos and scabious, and have done some other smaller pots and dotted them around, with calendulas and some low growing geraniums that I was able to procure from my mother in laws garden, that had self-seeded happily into her gravel bed! Up came the plants with healthy big roots, and into fat pots of good compost, and watered in. They have all perked up no end, after a spell of a couple of days rain, so thats my borders re-jigged!
Now all I have to do is sit and wait [oh as if I ever get the chance] to see them coming into bloom over the next few weeks. Along with bumblebees and hoverflies, the garden is a real haven at the moment, so when the rain does come, I just don't seem to mind it quite as much!
