Sep 18, 2022
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I mostly use tiktok to watch videos (and by that I mean B. Dylan Hollis), but on the rare occasion I do post something, it's either cats... or this.
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Sooo. This sunflower square sweater was the first thing I ever made with crochet, back in 2023, but the yarn I picked was a bit too thick for comfortable wearability, and the neckline was kind of messed up and gapped a lot, so I never wore it. So this year I decided to take it apart and save the sunflower squares to make a blanket with instead, which will probably go in my guest bedroom.
I had 2 other wearables I made/half made with the same yarn (the yarn was cheap, and as a beginner, I figured thicker yarn = finish faster, which is true, but I didn't think about it being hotter to wear), so I took apart both of those projects too and am now making more sunflower squares to make the blanket bigger, and I'm doing a chequered pattern:
I just need to make WAY more of the brown squares now.
How to Crochet a Sunflower Granny square (by Meladora1)
After last week's winds time to sort out sunflower square. The really big one had been beheaded, but had multiheads underneath. Strapped canes up, moved snapped canes (did same to much lesser extent in sunflower border). Looking a lot better now and masking neighbour's shite again nicely. Propped up the cornfield flowers too. Hacked the two Queen salvias down in Washgreen so that they can grow healthier. Then took the dead out of the aster (hurrah, it't not dead, it may even have a couple of flowers, woohoo!).
Hacked buddleja down to about a foot above my head I guess, some a bit lower. basically to get rid of the weight making them overhang the lawn and to get rid of the dead blooms. Then hacked down the rose from nextdoor (note to self, no matter how hot, wear sleeves - I look like a self-harmer!). Then hacked back nextdoor’s shrubs coming through (still need to uproot ‘em!).
Then a good hack back of the insanely overgrown herbs. One of the oreganos looks like i needs extra love so may stick in a pot. Think the only herb that wasn’t massacred was the rosemary and the 3 plants new this year! Must remember to replace the blue hyssop if it was that that bought it, think it was the winter savoury though. Pink hyssop was looking outstanding. One of the bergamots was well bulked up, yay! Seedling off the red one so must try and grow that on. Transplanted a burnet seedling to where the big one had died off.
Sorted out all the canes in the Sunflower border and tied them up and tidied leaves in the Sunflower Square. Festooned places with slug pellets.
Think we can safely say I’ll never see the new red chianti sunflowers :( Stupid slugs. Still baffled about Kong’s poor showing this year versus others. one of the Sunflower Square sunflowers is probably going to be biggest I’ve grown here!
Threw out the cornflowers I never planted up. Pruned the catmint Kitkat so it can bush up in it’s pot and then put it where the old salvia tub was. Massive buddleja in there now. No idea what I’m going to do with that. Threw out prickly poppies and an echinacea that had vanished (latter not looking double or orange, nice one Fothergills. Sigh).
Took seedheads off foxgloves just to tidy up a bit. Mowed lawn and communal lawn.
Watered balcony - need to do a massive water tomorrow, lots of things just barely hanging on :( Then with a headtorch (no, really!) I deadheaded and stripped dead leaves from the calendula in the troughs. I let them go far too far :( Baskets I’m going to dump and refill tomorrow. No idea why those nasturtiums didn’t work.
Happy to see the white (expensive) monarda has perked up (looked dead yesterday from lack of water). So still have its cutting and now pruned back to tiny young shoots. Still ticked off that it wasn’t the one I asked for and so have pink not purple tinge }:(
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Hard to work out where I'm sucking more, writing stuff up or getting done in garden?! Waaay behind in everything anyways. Been away for just over a week, right after the week when I was supposed to have lots of time in the garden, but no, OH needed furniture moving for days. Fume. So I have returned to an overgrown (shat upon, literally), wilderness. Far too wet to mow, of course, seriously, how can there be any more water left this year?! Miraculously the sweet peas haven't died from neglect. They got a good water and cut. One of the red sunflowers tied back. We'll just ignore that there were supposed to be gorgeous red ones in the Red Bed, just annihilated. We'll also just ignore the sunflower border generally, Kongs are beyond woeful. However sunflower square is under impression it has giant sunflowers in it. Some have gotten REALLY tall. Sadly this means they are now bending as there is a tree in the way! :D Had to sort out the canes that were bending etc. Cornfield flowers all out now and looking fabby. Washgreen sweet peas out and lots of caterpillars. Scabious just coming out as are the Artic Glow globe thistles (think for the first time). Teasels also looking good. So maybe not total disaster this year. Herbs are INSANE. Got to get this garden sorted ASAP. So, that'll be in 3 weeks time then! :D
Passionflower got two, yes TWO flowers out! :) Growing madly so spent a while tying it back in so the geranium underneath stands a chance!
Created a wee “fence” around the top of the Sunflower Square with wire and pea sticks to make the cornfield mixture stop flopping. Took rhubarb leaves out to give more space for other things. Took out the 3 anthemis as they just look out of place and chucked em. Existing 2 Marmalade yarrows moved along and then 2 of the Peggy Sue ones (that are clearly red) went where they were. Pulled up most of the Blackcurrant Fizz as they were looking unsightly and space needed.
Stapled the wire I’d originally taken off the fence, back onto it and then tied in the 2 Canary Creepers. Third that sprouted in Sweet Pea obelisk then followed.
Then worked through garden staking. Starting with wiring up all the Blue & Silver Border. Dug up the Kit Kat (to be potted on tomorrow) so I can get it big again. The teasel there is def. not coming back so must sort a replacement. Tied up the Yorkshire Teasels and some more of the Verbena bonariesis (one day I will know how to spell that word!).
Hacked back virtually all of the anthemis in the Tango Bed. Why?! Well they were flopping all over the place and it’s impossible to see what should go where. So yep, all shorn down, some quite harshly to new growth at bottom. Left the ones by the GMO. Tidied up the coldframes and slug pelleted them. Down to just 2 of the leftover rudbeckias now as another bought it, so chucked it. Chopped down all delphinium old stalks as some new ones coming on some.
Then fixed the thin strip of squared wire over the top of the clematis arch with cable ties and then used wire rings to get clematis stems attached to it. Looks much better. Now of course the small matter of the HUGE Buddleja that need magically pushed back.
The herbs are massive so I need to hack them back and nextdoor’s bushes are taking over, waaay through fence. Of course my wrist decided to be crap today and hence I had to stop without finishing all. Here’s to Sunday working out better!
Planted up rest of Washgreen. Watered and treated with slug pellets. Fertilised the rose. Then attached hurdles to the raised bed with cable ties. Sowed the new cornfield mix (previous vandalised }:( ). Did a couple of labels before clearly too sunny for the pen.
Then hours of tidying. Chopping brushwood up, covering up things from cats and arseholes. Taking daffodils up from lavender border and tying those still in the ground up. Bringing daffs down from balcony and taking thymes and whatnot up there that were potted up a few weeks ago.