What I like about January is not only the Resolutions - like hey I start a diet.

No chocs, no fats, practically nothing I like really, just boring salads - but heck I wanna squeeze into those jeans that I bought one sunny day yonks ago that only saw the light of day twice before the 'orrible pounds piled on. Anyway, I digress - the other thing I like about January are the sales - anything really cheap and I'm there - like these bulbs in the pic - how about this for a deal from £3.99 to 10p a packet, trouble is I got carried away and bought loads and loads of packs and as the damn bulbs are shooting I've got to hurry up and plant them - but hey I've got my trusty scarecrow I animated to keep a lookout for those pidgeons around these here parts

5/5

GARLIC IN CONTAINER

After years of planting flowers , I decided to follow the trend and start growing veg. Reason I started with garlic wasn't just because of the health benefits like lowering cholesterol and acting as a natural antibiotic but because Sainsbury's was selling them for 24p each. I broke it up into individual cloves which I planted pointy end up in a 10 inch dia pot.. Green shoots appeared within 3 weeks. October would have been the best month for planting but I planted mine in April. Today I removed pot from greenhouse and stuck it in a sunny position. Gardening web sites they should be ready for harvesting early August and that you should dry 'em out and plait them while there's still a little green left in the stalk. Update in August after the plaiting..........

5/5/2010



Just about to walk through my back gate when I noticed my 'Frankie clematis' was in bloom - took a quick pic of it because the blue colour seemed to be saying
'Look I told you I was the blue you were expecting me to be.'
Heck I thought he deserves a bit of water for that.... so I duly splashed a canful of water over his pebbled clad feet.

IF YOU DON 'T TRY YOU'LL NEVER KNOW - Fancied growing gojiberry, blueberry, and cranberry, not something popular here in UK, but what the heck!! Checked web for ideas on how to get started with 'em - put a goji in ground, another in pot and hey presto they seem to be growing. Bought cheap dried up cranberry bush - stuck ericaceous compost in bright red plastic container - and asked them nicely 'to grow.'

Put 2 blueberry bushes in containers last autum and today I noticed they've a nice lot of blossom on 'em, courtesy 0f the bees that's been buzzing round 'em for a couple of weeks.

Keep you posted on how they're doing ............