What did you do in your garden today?

[Don Perry]

Lot of money for a potted plant. We pay 20-25 for guaranteed double knockout rose buses. And I thought that was just about the most to pay.
Pretty little tea roses you have, Sean.

 

[lifegardener]

Providing morning sun to recently germinated White Marigolds (on the left) and Red Queen Zinnias (on the right). They should do very well this year.

 

[Don Perry]

I meant no aggression , you see, this is simply the way we make a garden.

I planted my garden beneath a pale blue moon even sang it a western ballad.
But in mid June ,beneath another pale blue moon , I'm gonna want a salad!

I planted 6 black beauty eggplants, 2 big boy tomatoes, 4 green bell peppers, 6 straight neck squash, and 4 jalapeño peppers, all in 6" raised beds. I need to bring in composted soil for 3 more beds .
I have potatoes in the ground , onions, yellow pear tomatoes with cages, Better boy tomatoes, and crook neck squash.
I still need to get the tractor and plow 20'x60' for corn and watermelons.

 

[glaswegian]

It seems you Brits call a garden what we call an enclosed back yard. I live on 5 acres, with a 2 acre lawn . My garden is a 20x25 foot tilled space for tomatoes, okra, squash, cucumbers, potatoes, yams, and other beds of edible crops. I have a 60x20 foot strip behind the shop for 4 rows of corn mixed with watermelon . To me that is a garden.
Good luck with your trees and shrubberies.

Don Perry...Yes "us Brits" as you put it do have proper terminologies for things, that differs from what you YANKS call the same things. I'm a Londoner living in Ottawa Canada, 1hr closer to the Watertown, NY. As someone else pointed out to you, the UK as a whole is an island that is even smaller than the province of Ontario Canada in which I reside.

Your Hamlet of Byng, Oklahoma (yes I'm calling it that because it has Population: 1,363) is so tiny that a typical street in the UK has more people on it than your whole town. I bet the nearest decent size grocery story like Walmart and home depot for you is hours away. I damn well know for sure 100k or less can buy me 5 acres in Byng. LOL

If they sell your whole town, you couldn't buy a flat in central London.

 

[glaswegian]

Monday's are golf days, but as it was a Bank Holiday and was going to rain, I baled out.
It would have been very busy, so with visitors there'd be a lot of slow play, we'd be standing on several tees, waiting in the rain. A round, which would normally take no more than three and a half hours, would take five. "Been there, done that.".
I'm going to the garden centre in a bit, to get a couple of plastic pots, some compost and top soil.
The two "dodgy" plants on the rose patio will go into those pots and the two David Austin ones when they arrive later this week, will go in their glazed ones.
If the "dodgy ones" recover, they can "do some time" in the big Apta pot by the front door, presently occupied by the heathers. If not, they'll go in the bin.

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I've other plants that went in here last year. But this year, I'll change them over every couple of weeks, as they will be getting very little sun here.



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I can't make up my mind as to whether I wasted my time this morning, binge-watching all three episodes of, "Why didn't the ask Evans?" on ITVX.

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I went to the garden centre for what I needed.

Last year I bought this pot of three lavenders there in July for £14.99

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They died in "the big freeze" so I bought the three small ones for £4.99 each, in the previous photo.

I noticed today they had some similar to those I bought last year. This year they are priced at £34.


That was ridiculous.

Sean mate.....I found the Russian Sage (lavender like), is more frost/cold tolerant than the English lavender. Our winters like the one we just came out of here in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, goes down to -35c with windchill, brutal if you ask me and many times I've contemplated legging it back to blighty. LOL

Russian Sage vs Lavender: What is the difference between these subshrubs? – World of Garden Plants

 

[Don Perry]

Don Perry...Yes "us Brits" as you put it do have proper terminologies for things, that differs from what you YANKS call the same things. I'm a Londoner living in Ottawa Canada, 1hr closer to the Watertown, NY. As someone else pointed out to you, the UK as a whole is an island that is even smaller than the province of Ontario Canada in which I reside.

Your Hamlet of Byng, Oklahoma (yes I'm calling it that because it has Population: 1,363) is so tiny that a typical street in the UK has more people on it than your whole town. I bet the nearest decent size grocery story like Walmart and home depot for you is hours away. I damn well know for sure 100k or less can buy me 5 acres in Byng. LOL

If they sell your whole town, you couldn't buy a flat in central London.

I paid $80K for my 5 acres+ my home. It's hilly, overgrown and thick with brush, Each year I take 2 deer from my back porch. I love where I'm living. Almost 2 acres must be mowed every 2 weeks. Upkeep is a full time job.
Ottawa is beautiful in the spring and summer, but I don't think I could stand the weather. Everything has pluses and minuses.

 

[glaswegian]

I paid $80K for my 5 acres+ my home. It's hilly, overgrown and thick with brush, Each year I take 2 deer from my back porch. I love where I'm living. Almost 2 acres must be mowed every 2 weeks. Upkeep is a full time job.
Ottawa is beautiful in the spring and summer, but I don't think I could stand the weather. Everything has pluses and minuses.

80k USD won't get you a 1yr parking space in Toronto Canada.

 

[Sheal]

I paid $80K for my 5 acres+ my home.

The equivalent of that here is approximately £64,000. Finding somewhere to live at that price anywhere in Britain is virtually impossible, let alone with 5 acres of land attached.

 

[Don Perry]

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Our plot is about 200ftx60ft (approx) with a two bedroom bungalow on it, £350,000.

Today we went to visit our daughter, took her a couple of tomato plants some sweet peas and some basil, so a bit garden like.

 

[Sean Regan]

We live in a small three bed semi in a crescent, in South Manchester, which we bought in 1972 for £6,900.

The houses were all built in the same style in 1965. Our garden is less than 90ft long and at its widest about 30ft. You couldn't buy a house in this road now for less than £420,000 and that would require some work done on it. You don't see "For Sale" boards up, but now and again you see a "Sold" sign, they are that in demand, regardless of the economic climate.
This will give North Americans an idea how small and overcrowded is our small island and the housing situation here..

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Snoopy would have been proud of me.

I found some red onion seed and threw it in a tray to see if it would germinate, and it did. Today It rained, so I spent the afternoon in the greenhouse potting the Red Baron.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

The other thing I noticed today, but forgot to mention, is that the tulip seeds I planted last Autumn are coming up, quite exciting. Do you think I should pot them on?

 

[Ruderunner]

Not much today but tomorrow, I'll be starting a new batch of tomato seeds, more okra and pumpkin and watermelon.

Saturdays attempt at hardening took a significant toll.

 

[Don Perry]

I got the tractor out and filled raised bed #4 with Dyno Dirt. Then I seeded it with purple globe turnips. Watered everything then Had a Corona on the covered back porch. Man! I love spring time!