What made you happy today?

Lots of things have made me happy today
- Being a lovely day
- being with hubby and the children. Hubby is heading back to work on Monday after six weeks off so I’m enjoying these last couple of days of him being here
- watching the pigwigs chilling on the lawn
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having everybody in my road come together for VE Day celebrations, deckchairs on front gardens etc. It’s been nice to see everybody together/apart and laughing and having a good time!
 
Bill & Ted said:
Mine too, didn’t sleep through until he was 14 months, then he’d sleep 7pm till 9.00 am
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My eldest slept through from 6 weeks and never gave us any trouble. She lulled us into a false sense ..... baby no 2 came along and slept through from 7 weeks...we knew we couldn’t get lucky twice and were right. From four months she started to wake up in the night again. At its peak she was getting us up 12 times a night and that lasted until she was 2 years old. Suffice to say it was quickly decided there would not be a no 3!
 
Today,despite having a hideous headache, I have managed to plant all of my seeds into my new veg patch, I've no idea of I've got it right but fingers crossed something will grow! My runner beans are sprouting, the rocket looks like it's germinating, the cress is coming up and my peppers I thought weren't going to grow has 3 little shoots! 15889631795947987373461534298268.webp
I've also made another cinnamon and raisin sourdough so that should be ready to bake in the morning. It's taken me all day with several rests but I have achieved something.
 
Merab's Slave said:
I planted seeds today to grow rocket & coriander for the piggies, parsley & dill to share and garlic & basil for us (mine don’t like basil).
Given my usual lack of horticultural talent it’s wait and see if anything actually comes up.
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I’ve planted coriander and it’s growing. I think herbs are the easier ones. I don’t like dill 😬
 
I've given up on my first lot of coriander, 12 out of 48 wasn't very good. So I've transferred them to a pot out in the cold frame. I'm trying again with a sprinkling of seeds in one big pot this time and hoping for better results! But what do they mean by "sow thinly"?!
On the other hand my second batch of sunflowers are doing well 🌻🌻 And the spinach, rocket, broad beans and peas in the veg patch are coming along nicely.🌱
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
I've given up on my first lot of coriander, 12 out of 48 wasn't very good. So I've transferred them to a pot out in the cold frame. I'm trying again with a sprinkling of seeds in one big pot this time and hoping for better results! But what do they mean by "sow thinly"?!
On the other hand my second batch of sunflowers are doing well 🌻🌻 And the spinach, rocket, broad beans and peas in the veg patch are coming along nicely.🌱
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I’ve no idea what ‘sowing thinly’ means. Is it leaving gaps between the seeds? 🤷🏾‍♀️ I just sprinkled them in and they’re growing okay. I’ve got it on the kitchen window.
 
Sow thinly means only having a few seeds to an area of soil. If you sow too thick, then all the seeds germinate clumped together and then they just don’t get a good start. Sow thinly and there is plenty of space between the seeds.
 
We picked up our click and collect order from our favourite garden centre. They had an excellent system, numbered bays so no one parks near each other. You stay in your car until a member of staff approaches, give order number and they bring a trolley with your goods and leave around 3-4 metres away for you to collect. We got a bale of hay too which is awesome and some local honey (it's my daily teaspoon to help combat hayfever). So 30 summer bedding plants, a batch of herbs, 3 cucumber plants too. Most of our pots are filled now, just 3 ceramic ones to finish. Will plant the herbs and cucumbers tomorrow. Gardens looking a lot brighter
 
Piggies&buns said:
Sow thinly means only having a few seeds to an area of soil. If you sow too thick, then all the seeds germinate clumped together and then they just don’t get a good start. Sow thinly and there is plenty of space between the seeds.
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That's the problem- how much space to give them. It's a bit too vague. When I did my first lot of coriander, I used an old chocolate box tray and put only one seed in each section, but that didn't seem to help them germinate, let alone grow. ...:hmm:
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
That's the problem- how much space to give them. It's a bit too vague. When I did my first lot of coriander, I used an old chocolate box tray and put only one seed in each section, but that didn't seem to help them germinate, let alone grow. ...:hmm:
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It’s a rather hard thing to try to explain!
To be honest using a chocolate box tray I probably would also have put one seed to a section as well - i would have done that as it would have made it easier to pot on. Sowing thinly or thickly doesn’t really stop germination, it’s just that sowing thickly hampers your efforts to separate them and pot them up. If they didn’t germinate it wouldn’t have been because of how they were sown as such - some seed just doesn’t work, were there drainage holes in the tray and how much water was given?
 
I planted my coriander seeds about an inch apart and an inch down and they seem to be doing well, I put them straight into a big pot and the window boxes indoors so I dont have to re-pot them! I also seem to have planted some coriander outdoors amongst my carrots and beetroot, I think I assumed the beetroot was a dud as nothing grew for a month but now everything has come at once! So that definitely wasnt sown thinly with so much stuff in there, but its a big planter 18 inches deep with 70 litres of compost so hopefully enough space :)
 
Caspy's stopped limping. He's been on Loxicom for a week. I think it must have been a sprain. If he hadn't stopped by tomorrow he was going to have to go in a smaller cage by himself. I'm so relieved I haven't had to separate him and Nugget, I don't think that would have had a happy outcome. :)
 
I'm happy because today the piggies wheeked at me when I went in to feed them. They've been silent and run away since they moved out to the new hutch last week, so unlike the wheeking and bar rattling chorus I used to hear. I guess they are starting to feel settled in their new accommodation 👍
 
I’m happy because my youngest has become a little more independent in terms of her schoolwork. There’s one website I put her on and she just gets on with it. She comes to ask for help if she’s stuck though.
 
I'm happy to see Rory finally free of the Cone of Shame today after he had "the snip" last week. Poor baby's been so uncomfortable, he couldn't curl up to sleep like he usually does or lick his paws clean or scratch his itches!

Even his happy face looks a little melancholy but that's cavaliers for you!

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