Back to the (Blogger) or The Future

I post a lot of things on Facebook, pictures of my garden plants, dinner recipes, woodworking creations and rants, but who sees the posts is dictated by an algorithm designed by Facebook so I have decided to start up my trusty blog again.

So, what am I up to today? well I have cut some wood circles from tree trunks and made rustic bottomless plant pots out of them, why rustic? well I thought spending money finishing them with routed edges sanding and varnish was a bit daft seeing they are going to be outdoors all weathers and I cant really afford to go to that extreme plus the wood is still freshly cut so wouldn't sand very well.

Very shortly, after I finish my peppermint tea (I started drinking peppermint tea after reading that studies of people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) treated with peppermint oil concluded that peppermint provided symptom relief),and I had IBS. I will shift some compost and fill the pots up ready for planting with flowers, on my driveway in the gaps between the hedges.

I have dozens of seedlings in small pots in the poly tunnel awaiting transplant outside but the weather is cold this week so they wont do any harm were they are for another wee while. I think a big sunflower in each with maybe some marigolds around its base would look good. 

Growing lots of marigolds as they attract hover flies and parasitic wasps as well as producing chemicals that repel white fly, companion planting is something that can be amazingly worthwhile like planting pots of mint in amongst brassicas, who would have known that cabbage moths and aphids hate the stuff, (apart from every horticulturist on the plant) mind you be careful to keep it contained in pots. 

Well I'm back in for a heat and lunch, and yep I got distracted, the tree trunk pots didn't get filled with compost yet. I had to retrieve my spade from the veg plot to sieve the compost and ended up turning over the soil on the plot again, and on the way back with the shovel I got distracted passing the shed and ended up creating a wee hair clip in the form of a turtle, from an off cut piece of hardwood as you do. I have to put some wee eyes on him and give him a proper sanding. With not having much in the way of head hair left I haven't a clue if he will work but hey its something else to put on my market stall when things reopen.

   The hair clip is not much more than an inch long.

Talking about things reopening, there is an advert on RTE radio (one of the only stations I can get on the old radio in my shed) that is driving me absolutely batty telling me repeatedly how wonderfully the Covid vaccination program is going in Ireland, Sheeze, maybe there is someone out there controlling adverts and laughing away at my reaction every time the advert comes on.

Ok I'm away back out to fill the tree trunk pots, or get distracted as the case may be.