I need supervision!

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I woke up in the early hours of last Wednesday morning with cramp in my right calf ~ bloody painful it was, too.  So as you can imagine I didn't start the day in the best of moods.....

although I did feel more cheerful when I saw that the two sunflower seedlings were pushing their way further up from the compost 😊

As I was expecting the arrival of more plug plants, including tomatoes which were part of this year's greenhouse crop, I decided to move the still poorly-looking dwarf French beans out into the kitchen garden.  I separated out the clumps and put four individual plants into each of my 12"/30cm squares.  Then came the point at which I really should have been supervised 😲

As you know, my lovelies, I'm a big fan of chicken manure pellets for fertilising my garden and as luck would have it the two tubs I'd ordered also arrived this week.  They come in big plastic tubs, which have a tab that has to be prised off to open the lid.  I always seem to struggle with these bloody tabs and this time was no different.  I somehow managed to wrench my thumbnail in the process and boy oh boy did it hurt 😱  I must have actually pulled the nail away a tad as it bled a little ~ luckily I always keep my nails short!  Thankfully I was wearing gardening gloves at the time, which I suspect may have mitigated the damage somewhat.  As I was working in garden soil I thoroughly cleaned said thumb with an antiseptic wipe, and then wrapped it over the end and around with a couple of plasters.  It was so f***ing painful and, being right-handed, it was of course the right thumb that I managed to hurt 😒  There's still a bruise visible beneath the nail but it's not a painful as it was.  Like I said, sometimes I think I could do with a little supervision 😉 

Apart from watering the kitchen garden beds (the first time I've felt it prudent to do so this year), I decided not to do anything else in the garden and spent the evening feeling sorry for myself 😄      

Although I again woke up with cramp in the early hours of Thursday morning, this time in my left calf, I was cheered up ~ and amazed ~ to see the sudden rush of sunflower seedlings! 

My poor 'ole thumb was still very tender, as was my left leg, but I pulled up my big girl panties and tackled this bed in the back garden patio area.  I'd planted a "something" which has lost it's label and I can't now recall the name of 😏  Anyhoo, the bloody thing seemed intent on taking over the bed, via runners beneath the soil, so I decided it would have to be dug out.

I ended up digging out the three little plants in the far left corners and the centre front so that I could get as much of the mystery plant out as possible.  I put the former back in their original spots and gave them all a good watering to help settle them back down again.  Hopefully they won't be too resentful at being dug out🤞

I decided to plonk the mystery plant in the bed between the log store and garden shed, where it can fight it out with the willow, narcissus, and rosa rugosa 😉  The latter is full of buds, one of which had already opened.  Despite their deadly thorns I do like them, especially in a bed that I usually leave pretty much to its own devices 😄

The plum tree has lots of lovely fresh leaves but alas hasn't flowered this year.

The apple tree is making up for it, though, and the cherry has quite a lot of blossom as well.

More plug plants arrived.....

in, as I was expecting, not very good condition.  They are both bush tomatoes, Tropical Ruby and Indigo Cherry Drops.

They looked terribly sad and sorry for themselves; it remains to be seen whether they will pick up.

Friday was a much slower day as I had an appointment at the hairdressers in the morning, and my left leg was still pretty sore.  In the afternoon I just pottered about, really.  I moved the pots of dahlias out of the arbour and placed them in various positions around the garden.  I was able to move the fuchsias and geraniums out of the greenhouse into the now-empty arbour to get them used to being outside for the summer. 

It's incredible just how quickly the sunflower seedlings are growing!  If they continue like this, I shall have more plants than I was anticipating 😄