Gardin

I think the last of the potatoes came up today. I've transplanted the rhubarb into their old dirt. And I'm in the process of painting a map of the garden, so I can use that to help plan... we have raised beds in our beady eyes.

We've had a tiny strawberry harvest, missed the ripening tomatoes on almost every occasion in exactly the way wildlife didn't, and have nasturtium leaves in salad. I harvested but didn't eat the red and black currants and will need to prune those properly this year if we're going to get any fruit next year.

The apples seem to be doing ok. I must work out which bits to prune. The fig tree is growing but not figifying. I need to crawl into a tiny spiky space to pick gooseberries.

And in inedible plant news, the montbretia from my mother's garden on Aran is flowering beautifully, and one of my two roses has little pink flowers. The bees are very few and far between but they seem to like the wildflower patches.

Tally

Got dressed
Made bed
Made coffee
Brought in dry laundry, hung out wet
Put on a load of dirty laundry to wash
Sieved the dirt from the potato bags to fill another growbag for rhubarb, supervised children transplanting rhubarb.
Scrubbed Garden off a big yellow laundry basket which was used for... jasmine branches and half rotten apples, apparently. Ok.
Propped up two tomato plants which have been growing lush with neglect and are bound to die now.
DID ALL THE GARDEN BEFORE THE TORRENTIAL RAIN.
Did ALL the budgeting and moving money around and paying bills
Discovered a dripping gutter at the back of the roof. Bah.
Cleaned a toilet and handbasin including washing sand and grit out of the plug mechanism jeepers what's wrong with a normal plug?
Sorted some things in the kitchen
Read Borrowers to Emer while she emptied the dishwasher s l o w l y

To do:
Wash the bathroom floor
Clean the WHOLE kitchen
ALL THE THINGS