Real Life Animal Crossing

I used to be somewhat addicted to a Nintendo game called “Animal Crossing” where I would run around planting, watering and weeding on my virtual island. That was ME in real life this weekend, planting up a veritable farm in containers, taking over any unclaimed patch of ground. If it was my own garden I would probably put in lots of raised beds but Nessie crashes around on the grass playing footie and when I eventually move on I will have to shift an awful lot of plants in pots!

Last week when I had visitors it was unseasonably cool but now it is so hot that I am mostly inside my cool cottage since I overheat easily, even in the shade. It looks set to be a sticky week at work ahead (25-30 degrees C) which I am not looking forward to.

I had a jaunt to Cowslip Studios near Launceston on Saturday with work colleague / gardening guru, Karen to see the Kaffe Fasset quilt exhibition but really it was an excuse to swing by the lovely, Homeleigh Garden Centre and B&M which had wilting tomato plants on sale for £1.00!

I spent ages on Sunday preparing pots for planting. The pots that were donated to me by a friend are deep and use up too much compost so I put sticks, bits of turf and cardboard scraps at the bottom to take up some of the volume. I have now had to order yet more compost because I still have some flowers, baby tomatoes, chillies and rocket to plant. 

My mini farm is growing raspberries, beans, tomatoes, strawberries and tatties! Hopefully, it will survive the heat if I water everything nice and early in the morning. 

Since it is too hot to be outside I might go and have a rummage amongst my scraps. Nella has requested an ipad pouch so I will see what I can do without buying any more fabric.