What did you do in your garden today?

[quiltbea]

I finally added my Black Kow composted manure on my single bed. I feel so accomplished. Taking out my seedlings now every day to harden off a bit which include parsley, bunching onion and both onion and garlic chives. I am so eager to get my radishes, carrots and a few lettuces sown.

I added a shower stool for my garden stool this year. Its waterproof and sturdy and can be lowered or raised as needed. it sure helped me. In the upper left corner is my perennial Salad Burnet which came thru its first winter just fine. I take my baby steps these days.

 

[Black_Thumb]

350 onions

What do you do with all those onions?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

What do you do with all those onions?

When we were a family of four and I had space on an allotment I used to plant an onion for every day of the year.

My mate once said to his missus "I'll start dinner". She said "You don't know how". "Yes I do, you start by chopping up an onion." "How did you know that?", "That's how you start everything."
It is almost true, and there are enough days you use two to make up for the odd one without

 

[Sean Regan]

I'm pretty much up to date with the garden, so over the last couple of days, I've done some "shed and garage housekeeping." I baled out of playing golf yesterday morning as it was raining, hopefully it'll be better for it tomorrow.

I was given this bench a couple of years ago. It's of a sort of "large size Dexion" construction. The top was just chipboard, the edge of which has got rather tatty over time. There was no way to fix my vice to it, so I had it on a block of wood screwed to the chipboard, which wasn't very satisfactory.
So I've now screwed a length of 4" X 2" to the front, which required me dragging out the old sideboard getting under there and drilling holes in the metal, then screwing the timber to it. I then was able to attach my vice to the wood. I filled in the the gap between the chipboard and the timber.

While I was at it, I tidied up the two benches I have in the shed, one has an old chipboard wardrobe door as a surface, the other reclaimed chipboard.
Again the edges were tatty as over the years I'd used them as sawing benches.
So I got some plastic edgeing from B & Q to tidy them up. I won't be catching my clothes on them any more.

I've some printing on very thin rice paper of stuff for my wife's decoupage hobby, (tricky and it's around a quid a sheet), you have to attach it to some backing paper with Washi tape, or it'll scrunch up in the printer, because it's so thin.

I might cut the grass this afternoon, but I'm really looking for things to do.

 

[Black_Thumb]

I pulled some more weeds today and watered my raised beds. I tinkered in the garage a bit too. I changed the oil in my tractor and my motorcycle and will probably take the bike for a ride later today. My wife is out of town for the next several days and I really need to sharpen up my skills a bit on my motorcycle because it's been some months since I rode it because of our cross-country move.

Replenished the bird feeders. So many species come into our yard. We had some red-headed woodpeckers show up yesterday for a bit. They do hang out in the woods behind us, but they make brief cameo appearances on occasion out in our front yard in the Dogwood trees.

Oh, and I did finish overseeding my yard in my "experimental" area behind the garage. I'm anxious to see how that turns out!!

 

[Sean Regan]

It was golf this morning and it has rained this afternoon, so no gardening.
But I did call into Travis Perkins on the way home for a bag of sand.
There's a few places on the patio and the path that need a bit of repointing.
I have to make up a mortar mix using cement, silver sand and some yellow cement dye, to try to match the York stone if I can.
I'll tackle it tomorrow or the next dry day.

 

[Black_Thumb]

I woke up to major thunderstorms in the middle of the night. The rain stopped early this morning (between 4 AM and 5 AM). It started raining very heavily again around 9 AM and now, at 2 PM, it has tapered off again and there is a hint of a little bit of blue sky showing. I won't get anything done in the yard today, but I am VERY thankful for the rain. The weatherman has been wrong for two weeks in forecasting rain. My grass seed needs it, as does my butterfly/hummingbird garden and the veggies we planted outside.

Happy Friday, friends! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

 

[Sean Regan]

I'm pleased with the recovery of our lawn, even as late as the end of March it was like this, you can see bare patches along the left-hand side, more down the end of the garden, the worst it has looked in years

But with some scarifying and a couple of applications of Maxicrop moss killer and lawn food, it has recovered.

The moss has almost completely gone. I don't scrape the dead moss out as you can have a "baby and the bathwater" situatuation, I could be also scraping out the new growth of grass from the seed soil/compost mixture I put down.


The downside of wisteria is the mess they are now starting to cause with faslling the decaying petals. I'll leave it until thery get really ugly, then get the ladder out and prune off their ugly blossom spines.

A continual job is removing any unwanted growth. It will continue until late September.


On this one it's possible to pinch out these stringers by hand as they appear.

But for those like these and there will be a lot, I'll use my Barnel telecopic pruner.

 

[Black_Thumb]

The yard looks fantastic, @Sean Regan. Great job!!

 

[Black_Thumb]

The rain let up a bit this morning so I took advantage of the saturated soil to pull some more Bermuda grass out of the raised beds. I had some visitors in my front yard too and wanted to share those pictures with you! I also found a new plant I didn't know I had in the yard. I don't know anything about it either.

We have had a large number of bird species show up. I'm going to try to capture them all with my good camera. These aren't too bad, coming for a cell phone.

 

[quiltbea]

I love seeing all the pics. It's like visiting your gardens in person. Terrific.
This morning I sowed carrots and radishes along with more chives, scallion, and thyme seed to go with the transplants.
We are having unusually warm weather with no frosts in site. Amazing.
Its Mother's Day so my son is coming with lunch. I love when I do not have to cook.
Happy Mother's Day to all.

 

[Tincasteve]

New to the forum so please be gentle.
What have I been doing today ? Well put out 25 varieties of heritage and heirloom salad and cherry toms for sale. All proceeds going to RNLI & GUIDE DOGS 50/50. POTTED up my 25 into tubs and hanging baskets . Got to do my yellow and white apple cucumbers also a small white cucumber called White Wonder. Checked out my 10 beef H&H toms in the greenhouse, all have their first truss and all side shoots have been removed so all is going well so far this year.

 

[Sean Regan]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

 

[DirtMechanic]

I hard pruned a loropetalum to match the one across my driveway. I had discovered a cardinal nest in it and she is gone now. My neighbor told my wife she wondered if I just had a fit at the first one since I did not do both at the same time.

 

[Sean Regan]

The photo of all the wisteria blossom on the patio I posted yesterday, which I then hoovered all up, was exactly how it looked again today, so more hoovering. It'll be the same job ptretty much every day for some time.
Gave the roses another dose of Sulphur rose.