What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

I pruned a bit off this acer palmatum. I like it to be symetrical

There is a leylandi type thing in our front garden does exactly the same, I think it is the North South light difference. Perhaps if we moved to the equator ...

 

[Black_Thumb]

Hello, all. It's been a while since I've checked in. We've had non-stop company at our home for weeks on end, and so I haven't been doing a whole lot of gardening things aside from mowing the yard. My wife planted some flowers some weeks ago, and I took these photos of them this morning. As a result, we've had a number of different species of butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, assassin bugs, stink bugs, and spiders show up to enjoy them.

 

[Sheal]

My garden is shutting down for the winter with a possible first frost on the cards next week. I was out there today with my camera.

Coreopsis

Beechnuts

Cotoneaster

Rudbeckia

Rosa Rugosa hips

Sedum

 

[Susan BBPM]

My plan for today is to cut everything down for winter. Some things are still flowering quite nicely, but it's all on borrowed time now so I might as well get everything tidy before the bad weather hits.

A bit of a sad day. Accepting the end of summer!

 

[Oliver Buckle]

My Angel's trumpets didn't flower this year, they have been in the same pot too long. I split them up into four plants and moved them into the greenhouse, then serviced my greenhouse heater, as you say, Susan, winter is coming.

 

[Twigs]

Picked some peppers today...
Coolapeno
Sweet Banana
Habanero
Ghost
Scorpion
Carolina Reapers

 

[YumYum]

Picked some peppers today...
Sweet Banana
Coolapeno
Habanero
Ghost
Scorpion
Carolina Reapers

Man you like them hot!

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Weeded, staked dahlias, potted a couple of things on, planted two dozen broad beans, and repaired several holes the fox had dug. One of them was the length of a row of winter spinach that was a bit over an inch tall, before the fox came, have to restart that. He took no notice of the length of string with silver paper danglers I had put to keep the birds off, though it worked on the birds.

 

[PlantsbyKim]

Today is prep day for the changing of seasons . Mostly cutting back or re grouping . Watering plants and taking inventory with growth . I usually do pictures at end of summer cycle . Winter will be quiet for most parts. Letting them sleep with the watering be cut back .
Just waiting for spring to bloom !

 

[gary350]

I spent 2 hours digging up Lemon Grass roots. I will never plant lemon grass again. Lemon grass is like small bamboo. It has no lemon flavor.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I took down the deer fencing around the garden and raked plant debris into a burn pile The leaves are coming down and I got 4 mulched piles so far with many many more to come. They go into the garden. There are 10 or so posts to replace here and there and some on the scuppernong and muscadine trellis. I will trim them and move them into a new trellis location with more sun when they sleep. I think I will bury a great deal of old wood and drops in garden trenches. We have a rainy winter, so by spring, covered in compost and dirt and mulched leaves they may be ready to feed plants, if they stay wet. We have this invasive worm called an asian jumper. They do amazingly fast work making compost disappear, so I will try to put them to a useful purpose eating wet wood compost.

 

[Sean Regan]

I did nothing today, I've not done anything for a couple of weeks as I had a recurrence of my problems with spondylitis. A week ago I was pretty much incapacitated for a few days, but I've been on strong anti-inflammatories for a week. Plus, we had our flu and Covid jabs yesterday. I'm much recovered, but I didn't fancy doing anything in the garden today, as I'm going back to playing golf tomorrow, first time in two weeks.
However, there's a guy who does gardens in our road. He's not a gardener, he just mows and tidies. So I grabbed him today, just to cut both lawns and get rid of some of the fallen years. He was here for about twenty minutes. His mowing wasn't up to my standard, but for fourteen quid, I can't complain. Hopefully I'll be back gardening next week.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Cleared out the tomatoes and cucumbers from the small greenhouse and replaced them with all the tender plants over the last couple of days. The dahlias were in a large ceramic pot, and the Amistad is in a very large pot, I can feel my back this morning.
Only the Agapanthus to go in now, we have two, a deciduous and an evergreen and one is hardy and the other not, I can never remember whether it is evergreen or deciduous which is hardy, or which one is which, they usually both end up in there.
I went out this morning to empty the crumbs from the bread board, robin was instantly waiting for me, and found a genuine field mushroom on the lawn. There have been all sorts of fungi from little yellow sticks to psilocybin, but this is the first real mushroom, long may they continue.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

The grass keeps growing, ran the electric rake over the lawns and mowed. Picked a lovely ripe chili, the missus said 'Let's have a taste'. Took a nibble and spent the next hour or so sucking a yoghurt spoon and complaining. Took cuttings from the pelargoniums, sorted out my seed box and chucked a lot that were past their use by and duplicates

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I have half a large barrel, today I chopped up the rotting remains of a silver birch I felled some time ago and packed it into the bottom of it with a lot of fallen twigs and small dead branches from the oak tree. Tomorrow I shall turn a compost heap and sieve through the better rotted part of it. hat the sieve holds will go in next, followed by a soil, compost, manure mix to grow in. I am going to try the Meadowlark way starting with some Lobjoits green cos lettuce.