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Repotting
Having bought some more compost, I have potted on more of the towel-tomatoes and the sweet peas, for which I gathered some longer pea-sticks thanks to the recent high winds, which have brought down bits from the roadside trees :-)
I also split up the cornflowers -- I shall probably have a lot more, since there is mass germination in the tray in which I sowed the purple flower seed, and I think the first leaves to appear were all from cornflower seed.
I combed out and root-pruned the bonsai plum in order to replant it from a vertical yoghurt-pot (now suffering from incipient plastic photo-decay, but I managed to insert one of the cornflowers back into what remained of it!) into a horizontal 'proper bonsai tray', i.e. an old black plastic meat tray :-p This does reveal how very much small it is than the birch, now that it no longer has all that extra vertical boost... or, rather, how much too large the birch is, despite my heavy chopping last year!
I also daubed a couple of coats of black Hammerite on the rusty patches on the balcony railings, sacrificing an old pair of pants to the purpose (and a pea-stick for stirring with), since in my experience it is quite fruitless trying to clean Hammerite out of paintbrushes even if you invest in the official solvent. Despite my best efforts my hands have a few black smudges around the fingers, but those will come off quite quickly. There is a lot to be said for skin that automatically sheds its outer layers, as opposed to disposable gloves! (Though I suspect Hammerite is pretty toxic; the tin now comes with warnings about how environmentally unfriendly it is...)
I also split up the cornflowers -- I shall probably have a lot more, since there is mass germination in the tray in which I sowed the purple flower seed, and I think the first leaves to appear were all from cornflower seed.
I combed out and root-pruned the bonsai plum in order to replant it from a vertical yoghurt-pot (now suffering from incipient plastic photo-decay, but I managed to insert one of the cornflowers back into what remained of it!) into a horizontal 'proper bonsai tray', i.e. an old black plastic meat tray :-p This does reveal how very much small it is than the birch, now that it no longer has all that extra vertical boost... or, rather, how much too large the birch is, despite my heavy chopping last year!
I also daubed a couple of coats of black Hammerite on the rusty patches on the balcony railings, sacrificing an old pair of pants to the purpose (and a pea-stick for stirring with), since in my experience it is quite fruitless trying to clean Hammerite out of paintbrushes even if you invest in the official solvent. Despite my best efforts my hands have a few black smudges around the fingers, but those will come off quite quickly. There is a lot to be said for skin that automatically sheds its outer layers, as opposed to disposable gloves! (Though I suspect Hammerite is pretty toxic; the tin now comes with warnings about how environmentally unfriendly it is...)