Saturday: “James Grieve” Eating Apples

We were both up before 7am, there was a storm warning for Anglesey, so after a quick breakfast I did some gardening jobs before the weather worsened.

MrD helped me fill a couple of large tubs with compost I’d saved from the tomatoes. Planted the dwarf broad beans, red flower and white flowers, then added the leftover seedlings of feverfew, “Fox and Cubs”, eryngium and Erigeron (Mexican Daisy) - these tubs of flowers are for any pollinators still around later in the year and for next spring, all being well …

Red Hot Pokers and Digitalis, which MrD had bought me as “plugs” were also looking a bit sad in the gritty compost I’d mixed, but had made good roots and top growth, also got repotted in a richer looking compost to take them through the winter.

After lunch, the weather hadn’t worsened - still fine and dry, MrD went for a very long walk, through the woodland on our little mountain and down to the beach. I tidied up the edge of the garden at the side of our garage where the “James Grieve” apple grows, lots of nettles, Acanthus spinosus got cut back and all the dead leaves were thrown back onto the soil, the blackbirds and other garden birds love scratching about in it :-))

Does anyone know why this tree and my Bardsey eating apple tree have had these clumps of tiny apples alongside “normal” sized apples? Thank you in advance :-)

Continued watching “ The Turkish Detective” on iPlayer, such good actors, complicated plots and gorgeous scenery …

Loads of love and hugs to all my family / Cariad Mawr
Nos da pawb / Goodnight all XXXX XXX XX