Friday, June 30, 2006

Chillies

De har chillie plantorna fick jag av svarmor.
I got those chillie plants from my mother in law. (Thanks Chris!) Jag planterade om dem forra helgen sa nu bor de i dessa krukorna.
I re-planted them last week and now they live in those pots. (The pots were bought for a bargain at Co-op in Frodingbridge! You can't find any food there but very reasonable priced flower pots!)

Eunymus

I bought this shrub after seeing it in my parents in law's garden. If I treat it well it will grow very big and it's an evergreen so it will keep me happy in the winter too. It's called Euonymus.
Den har busken kopte jag efter att ha sett ett exemplar i svarforaldrarnas tradgard. Om jag ar snall mot den sa kommer den vaxa och sprida ut sig rejalt. Dessutom behaller den bladen under vintern vilket ar ett extra plus. Den heter Eunymus.

Paprika/Peppers

Hurra! Jag har blommar pa mina paprika plantor! De har jag ocksa nart fran att de var sma fron!
Hurra! There's flowers on my pepper plants! I've nurtured those too since they were little seeds!

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Koket/The kitchen

Mardrommen har borjat! Vi haller pa att renovera koket. An sa lange har vi spis och vatten kvar men det ryker till helgen. Sa nu blir det mycket grillning! Som tur ar ar Richards pappa har for att hjalpa till.
The nightmare has begun! We're renovating the kitchen. We've still got the stove and the sink working but that'll go this weekend. So it'll be lots of BBQ's from now on! Thankfully Richards dad is here to give us a hand. Rich hittade den har snygga tapeten under kaklet.
Rich found this lovely wallpaper under the tiles.

Snigel krig/Slug war

De har plantorna fick jag av svarmor. De grona ar tobaks plantor som ska fa blommor som luktar gott. Jag har ingen aning vad den roda ar for nat.
I got those plants from my mother-in-law. The green ones are tobbaco plants and I can't remember what the red one is called.Tyvarr tycker sniglarna valdigt mycket om tobaksplantan. Sa nu ar det krig!
Unfortunately the slugs love the tobbaco plants. So I've declared war!

Tomater/Tomatoes

Jag ar sa stolt. Jag har kannt de har stora rackarna sen de var fyra sma fron!
I'm so proud! I've known these massive plants since they were 4 small seeds!

Blommande korg/Flowering basket

Titta pa min fina korg! Snygg fargmatchning......
Check out my lovely basket. Nice colour combination.....

Majs update 2/ Corn update 2

Titta vad majsen har vaxt!
The corn has grown!

Kaprifol/Honeysuckle

Kaprifolen har vaxt till sig! Jag planterade om den i helgen.
The honeysuckle
has grown! I replanted it last weekend.
Och den har tom borjat att blomma!
And it's even started to flower.

Kaprifol/Honeysuckle

Kaprifolen har vaxt! Planterade om den i den har stora ladan i helgen.
The honeysuckle has grown! I re-planted it in this big box last weekend.
Och den har tom borjat fa blommor!
And it's even started to flower!

Petunior/Petunias

Kommer ni ihag den har? Jag planterade den har for en manad sedan. Nu har jag planterat lite petunior som jag hoppas ska sprida sig over alltihop. Jag trodde att jag hade tagit kal pa clematisen eftersom den inte skot nya skott alls - forran i forrgar! Kolla in narbilden nedan.
Do you remeber this? I planted it a month ago and now I've planted somepetunias which I hope will spread and cover the soil. I thought I completely killed the clematis off since it didn't make any new growth at all - until this week! Check out the close up below.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Hart arbete/Hard work

Jobbade som en liten gnu i tradgarden igar men glomde ta kort, sa det far komma senare i veckan. Har gravt upp den lilla rhododendron busken som antagligen drunknade i allt vatten, planterat om kaprifolerna i de stora ladorna som Rich snickrat, planterat vaxter som jag fick av svarmor forra helgen, planterat en buske jag kopte for en manad sedan, planterat om majsen(som vaxt jatte mycket!) och lite andra grejer. Sa nu har jag ont i hela kroppen.
Was working like crazy in the garden yesterday but forgot to take pictures so I'll do that later in the week. Dug up the small rhododendron shrub, it probably drowned in all the water, re-planted the honeysuckle in the big pots that Rich made, planted all the plants I got from my mother in law last weeken (lots of chilli plant among other things!), planted a shrub I bought about a month ago, re-planted the corn (it's grown lots!) and some other thing. So my body is aching all over now.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Overraskning 2/Surprise 2

Mogna jordgubbar!!
Ripe strawberries!!

Overraskning 1/Surprise 1


Den har overraskningen vantade pa mig nar jag kom hem. En tok blommande liten Philadelphus. Luktar gott!
This surprise was waiting for me when I got back. Flowering Philadelphus. Smells nice!

Tillabaka! Back from holiday!

Nu ar jag tillbaka efter lovely semester i Frankrike. Och allt har overlevt i tradgarden trots supervarme!! Fast jag misstanker lite att min snalla granne har vattnat lite fast jag inte bad henne.
I'm back after a lovely holiday in France. And everything in the garden has survived despite the heat wave! But I do supect that our nice neighbour has been watering a bit, even though I didn't ask her. Very happy!

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Rosor!!Roses!!

Nu blommar vara rosor! Och luktar sa gott! Synd att det inte finns doft funktion pa bloggen. Och nu aker jag pa semester en vecka sa jag har tokvattnat allting och stallt alla krukor pa skuggsidan. Det ska visst vara supervarmt den kommande veckan sa vi far val se hur det kommer att ga.
Our roses are in bloom! And they smell so nice! Shame that there's no smelling function on the blog. We're going on holiday now for a week sa I've been watering everything like crazy and moved all the pots to the shady side of the garden. The forecast has been promising a heat wave so we'll have to wait and see how things will do without watering.


Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Majs update/Corn update


Jag hade nastan gett upp hoppet om att majsen skulle gro men har ar den!! Det ar ju langt kvar tills den kan agera insynsskydd men man far vara glad for det lilla. Den har iallafall inte drunknat vilket jag fruktade ett tag efter en veckas ihardigt regn.
I'd almost given up hope of the maize ever showing, but here it is!! It's a long way away until it can act as screening but at least it hasn't drowned like I feared for a while after a weeks constant raining.

Clematis bild/Clematis picture

Har ar pallkragen med Clematisen jag planterade igar. Den ser ratt patetisk ut nu efter jag klippte ner den, vi far val se om den tar sig, eller om den kommer vissna och do som de tvajag kopte forra sommaren gjorde...
Here's the raised bed with the Clematis I planted yesterday. It looks a bit pathetic at the moment after I cut it down so I'll just have to wait and see if it will recover or jut wilt and die like the two I bought last summer did..

Mystisk buske identifierad!/Mysterious shrub identified!

Den hemliga busken ar inte hemlig langre! Besokte tradgardskunniga svarforaldrar i helgen som genast kunde upplysa mig om att det ar en Viburnum Opulus 'Sterile'. Det maste vara en ganska nyplanterad buske for en "fullvuxen" sadan blir nastan 2 m hog!
The mysterious shrub is not mysterious anymore! I visited my parent in-law this weekend and they know all about gardening and plants and they could tell me that it is a Viburnum Opulus 'Sterile'. I think it's a pretty young shrub because the mature ones can grow to almost 2 m high!

Monday, May 29, 2006

Ny clematis/New clematis

Har lite problem med bloggen ikvall sa det blir inga bilder. Men jag kan meddela att jag har planterat en Clematis Armandii i pallkragen. Jag var valdigt noga och gjorde precis som det star i alla tradgardsbocker och planterade djup och klippte ner den ordentligt. Sa nu ar jag saklart jattenervos att den kommer tok do eftersom jag klippte av alla nya skott. Vi far val se. Bild kommer forhoppningsvis imorgon. Om den overlever natten...
I'm having some problems with the blog tonight so no photos unfortunately. But I can tell you the exiting news that I have planted a Clematis Armandii in the raised bed. I carefully followed all the instrucitons for planting a clematis, i.e deep and then cutting it down. So now I'm terrified that it's going to die after I cut down all the nice new growth. Picture to follow tomorrow hopefully. If it survives the night....