A bit of a wash out

Happens to the best of us. 

Too few at the Monday get together to do anything useful and then Saturday (the rematch) was rained off, so this week it's Beeston in Bloom 0 : Weeds 2.

Linda and Vivienne caught a break in the cloud and tidied the vet's trough on Dewsbury Road and planted strawberries and chives.

Bit of bad news on the Leeds in Bloom front - they didn't cancel the Spring Judging - we didn't prepare -oops!

A bit of bright in the grey





The nearest Dewsbury Road trough to me is turning into a host of golden daffodils.
This is a planting idea from the same issue of the 'Garden' that offered the free vegetable seeds.

They did an article on nigellas.  This one is Nigella damascena planted with Eschhscolzia californica.  Sarah Raven, who wrote the article, says they grow best direct sown in March or April and thinned to 30cm apart.  I'm wondering where we can try it!

Catch up

I'm playing catch-up again!

The daffs in the Dewsbury Road planters did well - keep an eye out for the geraniums that were put in this weekend.

Did you see this in the guardian? "The weedkiller saboteur in Cayton caused £20,000 worth of damage."

We got silver in the Yorkshire in Bloom spring judging - I don't know if we're pleased or disappointed!  The millennium garden were awarded gold, as did the Church gardens that Brian and Brian and Joy do, by Leeds in Bloom.

This is the pictorial garden being planted with a range of wild flowers.  The pictures are a couple of weeks old so maybe when I go to the meeting this evening, there will be something to show for all the hard work being done here: