Day Ten - Death to the squirrel

I'll get to the bit about the squirrel in a bit.


so yeah CU 2


CU1


Shed Shot


The squirrel... little bugger has been digging up my freshly potted plants.


more damge!


This was a tray of mint till Mr Squirrel rifled through it.

I got a video of the little bugger in action - It's a YSI file so it'll die after 7 days or a number of downloads (so I mirrored it 3 times! - don't be a silly and download them all it's all the same file):
VIDEO's NO LONGER AVAILABLE - unless you request them
Stills!!!



Window boxes are out of focus but doing well (above and below)


Hello Experian

Day nine and ten

I shot a load yesterday and forgot to update. Anyway here's two days worth to compare and contrast.



The sunflower seeds like being outside.


This is a sneaky weed that was growing under another plant.


See how well hidden the sneaky weed is?


another shot of the sneaky weed.


This is the grass on Wednesday

....and tuesday

a normal weed. I dig about 3 of these up every day

Decapitated basil :( not even sure why it lost it's head. Perhaps it couldn't handle the stress.


Good vs Bad 1 - Left = bad, Right = good,


Good vs Bad 2 - Left = Bad Onion, Right = Good Onion


The garden is invaded by a cat! He looks stoned.


A dead plant. It's dead cause one of the cats sits on it and then takes a piss.


Grass CU wednesday


..and tuesday


Alternate Close-up Weds...


...and tuesday


more examples of illin basil. Maybe I'll bring it back inside.


this is about to flower. I don't remember what it is so it'll be a suprise when it does.


at least the weeds are doing well.

Day Eight - Repotting

Today I repotted (or potted on to be more precise) lots of basil and some sunflower seeds. As well as a couple of things that had got too big for their pots.

As usual the grass. Little change.


close up 1 - I think it looks really healthy from this angle


close up 2 - less so from this angle :(


The window sill. The 2nd pot along was repotted today. Dunno what the plant is. We also have lucky clover and gladiolli plants (both just starting) in view


The other end of the window sill - next to my onion we have three basil plants freshly potted today. Like a family of basil (I want to see which clump is the most successful hence the different size pots)


Some random repotting ontop of an old breadbin - backrow L-R: Basil, Some bulb - not sure what, Basil, more basil (not on breadbin). Front row L-R: yellow daisy thing, more basil


Sunflower seeds repotted after a watering


Creeping vine getting ready to invade - I had a big problem with this stuff last year. It gets EVERYWHERE and strangles other plants. I'm allowing this bit (which comes from next doors garden) as it's by the back of the shed and the more overgrown that area becomes the better. However I pull sprouts of this out of everywhere (walls, cracked concrete - it'll grow anywhere).

The Bear

I made him for the garden but I like him so much he guards my fireplace instead. Maybe I'll paint him one day and put him in the garden.


Here's another view.

Day Seven

Grass

Close up

another close up - note the amount of stones in the mud

another close up - note apple trees and compost bin

this plant is growing in mud that previously acted as drainage for our washing machine.

this flower had a small bramble cutting in with it when I planted it. The flower is doing OK but the bramble may yet take over.

Holly

this is what happened to the wall when I stood on it.

weeds growing in one of the compost bins

Lucky Clover

can't remember what this is

Spinach

Sunflower seeds after 4 days in compost

another view of the sunflower seeds