Sweet Peas

We finished constructing the climbing frames for the sweet peas over Thursday and Friday evening; working together, it takes about an hour to willow each one. Yesterday morning I dug holes into which they could be sunk, and positioned them in the bed. The soil's stonier than ideal, really, there, so this was slow progress, but eventually all four were suitably sunk into the ground. We then planted out the sweet peas, about a dozen plants per pyramid, with two or three varieties per support (hopefully complementary colours!). The plants have grown on really well in the greenhouse, so they're bigger than they've been in previous years, which is encouraging. It's also freed up some valuable bench space in the greenhouse, which is good because we discovered that we've got a couple of dozen packs of flower seeds to plant. I moved the tomatoes into the greenhouse, from the sitting room window: they'll need potting on soon. All in all, we need to get things moved out of the greenhouse shortly: fortunately there are a number of pots that can be planted out into the vegetable bed (beetroot, Swiss chard, brassicas), which will help, and a lot of lavender that can go out. A few pots, of dahlias, tulbaghia, and agapanthus, need to wait until we're sure there won't be frosts (probably a week or so).

Sunday was spent putting a third of the new garage floor down. The sealant paint went down over a number of evenings, the last on Friday. Onto this we've laid a high-tech multifoil insulation. The battens on top of this have solid foam boards between them, and then a plywood layer on top. That makes a very well insulated layer, but only takes 65mm of height. Tomorrow we'll move things off the next section of floor, ready to paint that, and lay the floor in a week or so.

Barely, we managed to get that sorted with enough time to mow the lawn (a mixed blessing), which does admittedly look a lot better for it. Liz has also managed to weed the entire long border in gaps in the flooring work, which is now looking magnificent.

I reckon that the quince will be in flower in the next 48 hours...and I can't wait.