http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk From Sunflowers to Potatoes... Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:21:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en rain rain rain rain rain.....  sunflowers still hanging on.  The extra grass seed that we planted is starting to come up. http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/snapshot-october-08/ I have been meaning to pot these outside for weeks now, each morning they were looking a little worse from the day before.  Since coming via the post they have been in small pots on the window sill.   It really wasn't a nice day to be doing this, rain and ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/gardeners-world-lavender-potted-outside/ It must be autumn, not only are the mornings so dark and depressing, but after last weekend of bringing the sunflowers down, this weekend it was the turn of the wigwams.  I didn't actauly have to dismantle them too much as one had been resting on the wall for a ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/wigwams-down/ They have been still standing tall but with bowed heads and died flowers for some time.  At the weekend we decided it was time for them to come down and so we saved the seeds from one head and the others put onto freecycle (and had someone wanting them straight ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/rip-big-sunflowers/ We bought some top soil, the first time ever I had bought it!  Normaly I have managed to find someone on freecycle wanting to get rid of some, but not this.   So, bought a little amount and covered some of the worst areas in the front where the seed just ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/autumn-grass-seed/ Well, it feels like autumn now! http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/autumn-flowers/ Just when I thought we would not see any, I have noted two flowering chrysanthemums and two more in bud.  Not a great deal when I think of all the seed I put in, but they are here in the end all the same! http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/spotted-chrysanthemum/ The first one came down the other week during the strong wind and rain we had.  The second one is halfway down following once again the strong wind and rain.  Note for next year to put them further into the ground!  Mind you, saying wind and rain is a bit ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/wigwams-blown-down/ A note to make for next year, plant flowers in groups.   The Amaranthus I am really pleased with, giving something different in the garden now that it is coming the end of the gardening year, and espically this year when things that have not been ruined by the constant rain ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/amaranthus-looking-good/ The seeds that were planted a little bit late (see http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/more-seeds-too-late/) have had semi success.  They took a long time to do anything, and the cats didn't help too.  This means that the Canterbury Bell, Larkspur, and Chrysanthemum have not been seen - or if they have they failed to ... http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/the-late-seeds-result/