I got Scabiosa seeds from wild plants when we went on holiday last September. I sowed them today using Carol Klein's method as shown in Gardener's World.
I reused the plastic box containing the doughnuts that Mark bought yesterday (and I ate) , using a kebab stick I made a few holes in the plastic to allow the water to go up in the box.
Next I filled up the container with compost, sowed the seeds on the top, pressed down with a jar and covered with compost.
Finally, I put the container in a tray full of water and placed it in the green house.
Now I have to wait and see !

This afternoon in the crazy heat , Marie-laure and I chose to join the two 500 litre waterbutts together.

While Marie-Laure is off gallivanting around the East side of France I thought I'd post a few pictures of the back gardens current fruitfulness.

It's been a long time since I blogged about the garden but we had a very wet spring again this year and it put me off a bit. Nevertheless, the garden is clean and producing well.

With the nice warm weather recently it was time to take the new old rotavator out for a spin.

We have box trees in the garden and some of them are very old.

We have four different species : the one with small leaves that doesn't smell very nice, the variegated one, the one with big very green leaves that doesn't smell and the dwarf one. I have learned to like box trees thanks to Bill Oddie who recommends to have at least one to help early spring insects. They blossom at the end of February therefore provide food.

My dad initially came round this morning to prune our three grapevines , we have two vines of the "chasselat" species and a third whose fruit looks like Italian grape.

This afternoon was another beautiful day so I took the chance to work in the front garden.

Back in March, my neighbour Daniel gave me a bag of Jerusalem artichokes to eat and to plant.

Yesterday I sowed mustard as green manure.