Also ripe for picking at the moment are the Cherries, these are another addition made since I came here, I would like to add another tree on the north facing all sometime so as to spread the fruiting season.
Over the past week or so some of you have asked me questions which I will answer tonight. The answers to the questions are next to and under the name of the person who asked them.EB Said in a comment about the standard Rosemary getting top heavy and prone to blowing over. I think she is right and a problem I have all the time with my standard Fuchsia’s.
Yes Tippy did like the soft food I gave here instead of the pork pie, she had rice pudding which is one of her favourites.
The weather station is okay, it links to my computer. I got into recording the weather because of blogging, to give people an idea of what the climate is like. The trouble with the weather station is that we only have a small sheltered garden so you don’t really get proper wind readings, the rain gauge is accurate and temps are okay although again because the garden is sheltered I think they are a couple of degrees higher than out in the open.
Sara asked if dead heading Day Lilies makes them produce more flowers. I’m not really sure to be honest. When you look at the flower spikes it seems that the flowers are already there so taking off dead ones won’t make much difference to the amount of blooms produced. One thing removing dead flowers will do however is make the plant look tidier. I will tell you now that I don’t take off any dead flowers as a rule but that’s because of a lack of time more than anything else.
Matron has asked me how doing my own garden compares to doing the one at work. Well it’s a lot different. For one thing Vicki does most of the work in our garden, I cut the lawn and the hedges and plant up some of the pots, also at home I’m not as fussy. From reading about my work you probably think I’m a right fuss pot going round making sure everything is always neat and tidy but away from work I am totally opposite, it doesn’t bother me the same if everything isn’t just so.

Then quite a bit of this afternoon was spent watching the qualifying for the German Grand Prix tomorrow which was quite interesting in that it kept on lightly raining so this caused everyone to have to get their thinking caps on as to what tyres to use.



Vicki is out tonight so I got my own dinner and sat for a bit watching the World Touring Car race that I had recorded from last weekend. Its not my favourite series to watch but its okay to pass the time.
Vicki wants the Passion flower training up the front of the house and I'm in two minds whether to do that now although I tend to think I won't as I have to take Tom for his walk yet which usually has two options, a short walk to the farm and back or a full two mile spin round the block, I sorta favour the latter tonight.
