Ravendale House

It’s still probably a bit early to do this, but today I’ve been counting the cost of the harsh winter.

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Back in November I wrote with pride about my lovely red geraniums and how they were still flowering. Then in December I wrote again about how they were suffering from a combination of geranium rust and extreme cold. In short most of them looked dead.

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Today I’ve had a lovely day out with my gardening chum, Sylvia. We went to Scawby Walled Garden a small, relatively unknown jewel in the crown of North Lincolnshire.

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So there we are, I’ve said it. 2010 is officially my worst gardening year ever.

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‘They’ said there is going to be a frost tonight. According to my last years gardening diary our first frost in Autumn 2008 was 27th October, so do I believe ‘them’?

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It’s now almost a week since the plug plants arrived, and to be honest the jury’s still out. The begonias certainly look better than they did, but neither they nor the geraniums have done much in the way of growing. Perhaps I should just be glad they’re still alive.

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Another sunny, if cool day and I did one of my most favourite gardening jobs. Planting things that I’ve grown from cuttings or seed out of their pots and into the ground.

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Here’s a question. Is it better to weed one bed thoroughly or two beds less thoroughly? I’ve been gardening for years now and I still don’t know the answer.

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Today started grey and damp, but ended up quite bright and breezy, so I spent the afternoon weeding the flower bed that runs along the back of the house.

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Today it didn’t warm up until about 3pm, so I was a bit late getting going, but when I did get going I made a start on weeding flower bed 4. Now flower bed 4 is the worst of the flower beds (apart from flower bed 5 which I’ve already abandoned). I’ve never really ‘bottomed’ it, if you know what I mean, though it does have plenty of potential.

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