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Every Sunday morning !

No space in freezer for hashies atm so unfortunately they’re missing

Get these little bumps under my skin on my chin mostly (but a couple random ones pop up other places). No pain or anything if I squeeze it it’s like white then no bleeding or weeping. They’ll go away but come back pretty quick.

Routine atm is - micellar water, L’Oréal revitalift & the neutrogena spot action salicylic gel.

Any (affordable pls) advice on how to prevent this??

Thought we had hashbrowns in the freezer but alas 😭 none to be found

Summer update !

Everything is in bloom and it feels like it looks better every day!

We have more plans for a pergola and a raised veggie bed but that will have to wait until next year (££)

After months of graft doing all of this ourselves it’s so rewarding to see everything bloom and get to enjoy the space !

If anyone wants to see pics of the stages I have those as well - we did all the levelling & hard landscaping ourselves, grass from seed, plants from very small & have just let the magic happen :)

Smells unbelievable!

David Austin - the ancient mariner

3 egg omelette with 20g mature cheddar and 2 slices ham - 330cals 33g protein

And 1/4 pack mango

Excuse the classic grey June day in england uk but we’re chuffed for 10 months work & we’ve done it all ourselves on a pretty tight budget (we need a bit more edging haha) most plants are from the range, B&Q, home bargains or our local garden centre reduced to clear or offers

You can see from the befores the absolute state the developers left the garden for us

In our 20’s & newly caught the gardening bug so we’re definitely newbies!

Any tips / ideas are welcome 🥰

10 months since the dirt patch !

We have done all the work ourselves, including laying the patio & making the sleeper beds & seeding the grass (we’ve ran out of edging for the back border lol)

We are loving gardening and loving our space

It’s so rewarding to see everything finally bloom and come to life

We’ve been on a tight budget - I added it up and we’ve spend just under £4K all in (materials, plants etc) which I don’t think is bad going

Next stop … add somewhere to try our hands at growing veg?

We’re trying some cuttings on the sideboard in the kitchen haha

Actually banging though

My mums monster lavender ! Will take a pic when in full bloom

So successful it’s strangled the tree 😬

So we have 4 young silver birch. They’ve been planted in our garden for a little over a year & have grown a lot. (UK - cotswolds)

They get full sun almost all day.

Two of them are growing very upright branches and 2 have very like drooping branches (as pictured)

Is this ok?? I don’t really know anything about trees

They definitely have enough water & are covered in new growth - actually the drooping only started once the new growth did!

Any advice?

I’m a first time gardener trying to train a David Austin generous gardener rose along / up my garden wall. Cotswolds UK. This wall is east facing in a south facing garden if that makes sense so it gets full sun almost all day. I used the rose funghi powder stuff when I planted it.

It’s training on a horizontal wire because I read that’s what you’re meant to do 🧐

First picture is the rose today and second is when I planted it 5 weeks ago.

I’ve pruned some of the crowded / crossing canes away to try and improve airflow (had a bit of a black spot thing so tried that & some rose clear spray)

I’ve been in a constant battle with f***ing aphids who eat any bud that comes up 😭. Who knew they’d be my new arch nemesis. The rose clear spray is meant to stop them but seems to make no difference.

I feed it every 14 days with rose feed - I’ve read that when it starts flowering I could switch to tomato feed??

Does anyone have any advice? Particularly on how to train it or just anything general?