Around the garden

We still have another month in the 90s and then we will drift back into the 80s until winter arrives.

Have you had much fewer lawn mowing to do this year?

I don't count it, but it seems well down from previous years.

I am doing it tomorrow, and I think it is 2.5 weeks since the last time...

The plumber came by last weekend, he thought we had fake grass, our lawn was too perfect. I wish our gardeners could do as well planting the flowers:(

Fair enough, I did wonder, particularly as Boo has been taking scissors outside.

What? You haven't been attaching razor blades to his tail so he cuts the grass as he waggs along

I ned to start to plan what I want to do for the late fall to winter growing season.

You get a lot from your gardening.

I ate my brambles last night alone. They are definitely lacking without apple.

We need to weed what down by the where we put the kayaks in. The grass there has grown way to high. A little project for the weekend.

A couple of days ago I planted out my winter veg seedlings in planters in the greenhouse. They seem to be coming on well. I will have to keep a good eye out for slugs though as they like veg too

On Wednesday evening I ordered some more Sundew plants. I'm loving them at the moment with their sticky leaves keeping the little flies down and their beautiful, simple tiny flowers. It's a bit late in the season to order new ones as they may soon go into winter dormancy but I won't have many plants around until late January or February now so it's a good time to organise.

From the seeds I planted, which were like dust, I now see there are little plants growing. There are also spagnum moss plants beginning to grow too so the Sundews were difficult to spot. I needed a magnifiying glass as they are only around a milimetre in size. I wonder if they will survive and wonder even more how they cope in the wild.

My Venus Flytraps are a bit slow to sort themselves. Two of those I repotted have grown well, one in the house and one in the greenhouse. Of the other two, one seems to have stopped, with just one leaf, and the other keeps putting up a shoot then it dies off again. Fungus gnats I think. We'll see

It looks like they are doing very well. 

Well, if someone had said that I would be still picking cucumbers out in the greenhouse at the end of September I this spring I would have thought not. I picked one very nice one today as well as another smaller one. Surely there can be few more?