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Potting Shed After Photos

Now that the paint has dried the potting shed isn't looking pink at all, a much more reasonable colour. PhotosTo the left of the picture is the area that I tried my hand at growing things in last summer, although the extremely wet weather meant that very little was produced by the crops. The slugs ate most of the onions and the potatoes didn't fare that brilliantly either! I've got a new batch of earlies chitting on the counter in the potting shed, inside the incubator that you can see on the front left corner of the window. Hopefully this morning's frost didn't do them any harm. Over the weekend I've also managed to clear some brambles, plant a hydrangea bush and fix a rocking flagstones on the driveway. The next thing to do is plant a rose bush up…
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Milder Weather

This is the second day in a row with no frost, particularly welcome after a week of very hard frosts and pretty cold weather, I even had to scrape ice off the car at 9am on Wednesday morning even thought the sun had been up for a couple of hours. Weather forecast for the next few days is to remain mild with temperatures not quite hitting the teens.
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Pink Potting Shed?

My potting shed has gone an amazing shade of pink! Not quite what I expected when I started to paint it with the spray on "Maple Red" from Tesco. I hope that it darkens a fair bit as it dries out, and that it comes off the windows too. All in all it was a good way to paint the shed though, the spraying took about fifteen minutes all up to paint the entire potting shed, it took me almost twice as long to do the bits round the windows and then to wash the windows clean of the stuff. Pruning & Planting Earlier on in the garden I also managed to do a very late pruning of the two apple trees and some pretty rough cutting back of the other plants around the left1) hand apple tree. The buds…
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Potting Shed

Been a while since I last added an entry here. It's been a busy time, both at work and at home. Of late we've had the kitchen re-done, a potting shed installed and there will be a brand new patio starting next weekend. Today was a good day at home with Alexander. We spent a considerable amount of time playing trains and building a railway with his Thomas the Tank Engine train set. He thoroughly enjoys it and has just started calling the trains 'choo choo'. Not his first word, but in the first dozen for certain. We also spent some time in the garden, me more than him as I pottered about in the potting shed while he had an afternoon nap. I got it reasonably sorted out for actually potting plants. Took the seedling compost and small pots…
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