What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

I cleared all the dying bluebell foliage from this long border and under the azaleas in the front garden.

There's just a few primroses, lily of the valley and cyclamen left.

I find the best way to do it each year, is, wear strong garden gloves and get down on your hands and knees and scrape it all away. A trowel can help with any stubborn bits. Any moss can be removed this way too. I almost filled the green bin with what I got out.
While I was behind the rhodos and azaleas, I pruned the tops of the quinces, i don't like them growing too high.

 

[big rockpile]

Watering and Repotting nomal stuff.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

More clematis tying up and unwanted wisteria strands pruned off.
The big job was cleaning and tidying the shed.

There's no room to do anything in here and to clean it I have to take everything out.
There's an assortment of bird and squirrel food in those boxes.

 

[Sean Regan]

Just a bit of clematis tying up and a lot of watering.

Our pink wisteria has made a bit of an effort, but no more than in previous years.

As I've stopped any further growth along the side wall and pruned back several new branches, maybe it'll make the effort to consolidate itself and do better next year.

 

[Meadowlark]

My Gardens are for growing food and what better food than new potatoes?

Digging potatoes was once a chore I dreaded but not anymore...just use the middle buster on my garden tractor and pick them up.

I'll dig over 400 pounds this way in this harvest...and it will be easier than digging 20 pounds by hand!

The local food bank is already chomping at the bit to get some.

 

[pepper]

My Gardens are for growing food and what better food than new potatoes?

Digging potatoes was once a chore I dreaded but not anymore...just use the middle buster on my garden tractor and pick them up.

I'll dig over 400 pounds this way in this harvest...and it will be easier than digging 20 pounds by hand!

The local food bank is already chomping at the bit to get some.

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That is awesome! Complete and total respect for a garder that shares their harvest with their community to help make a difference.

 

[Don Perry]

I will have to dig mine by hand. Garden is fenced.
You're already digging potatoes? I thought the plants had to die off or the tatters would be green.

I had to get the mower out and mow my 2 acre lawn.

 

[Meadowlark]

... You're already digging potatoes? I thought the plants had to die off or the tatters would be green.

The plants have died back here and no they aren't green. Temps are hitting 90 deg. F regularly. I always dig my potatoes by Memorial Day.

My wife said there were over 20 cars in the parking lot at the local food bank ...waiting for their organic new potatoes.

Another drop today for the food bank of about 100 pounds.

I put about three pounds of new potatoes in each bag...enough bags to feed 30 families or so. We threw in the last of the carrots we harvested today also.

 

[big rockpile]

Pulled weeds,watered and Sprayed.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

Did a bit today, when I came home from golf, as I'll be too busy tomorrow with shopping and the car going in to have the air-con re-gassed in the afternoon. It's working, cold enough, but I can't have "uncomfortably cold" any more. I guess after 18 years it deserves a re-gas, but there'd Honda reliability for you,
Did you know you're s'posed to run your air-con for half an hour each week during the winter? "Preventative maintenance." It'll say so in your car's handbook.

Did a bit of tidying up at the bottom of the garden. Then gave the roses a tonic spray. Mowed the back lawn and vacced up lots of dead wisteria blossom.
They are nearing the end of their flowering season.
The white one has done us proud. It's not cascaded as well this year the extreme cold in February killed off the end of a lot of long branches.

Our two tree azaleas are fully out now. I'll wire them again in the autumn to make them more ball-shaped. I don't want them spreading out more.

A lot of roses are coming out now on the two patios, but as you can see the azaleas on the left are on their way out.

 

[big rockpile]

Watered like I told my Sister it hasn't rained here for a year so I stay pretty busy.

big rockpile

 

[pepper]

Did a bit today, when I came home from golf, as I'll be too busy tomorrow with shopping and the car going in to have the air-con re-gassed in the afternoon. It's working, cold enough, but I can't have "uncomfortably cold" any more. I guess after 18 years it deserves a re-gas, but there'd Honda reliability for you,
Did you know you're s'posed to run your air-con for half an hour each week during the winter? "Preventative maintenance." It'll say so in your car's handbook.

Did a bit of tidying up at the bottom of the garden. Then gave the roses a tonic spray. Mowed the back lawn and vacced up lots of dead wisteria blossom.
They are nearing the end of their flowering season.
The white one has done us proud. It's not cascaded as well this year the extreme cold in February killed off the end of a lot of long branches.

Those pics are wow!

 

[Sean Regan]

I've got the jobs done early today as this afternoon, I'll be flitting between football, golf, rugby, cricket and road cycling on TV this afternoon.
More clematis tying up, wisteria pruning and the constant chore of vaccing up wisteria blooms and feeding the lawn.

I'm pleased with two plants that could have suffered in that very cold February
Our sambucas.

Lots of these delicate blooms.

This acer palmatum Tayor is now in full leaf, I may balance out the foliage in the autumn.

When you consider you start the year with wisterias with bare branches, followed by just blooms, as they fade they are followed by a lot of foliage.
I'll prune off these blooms in a week or two, it'll save having to vacuum them up.

The roses are coming out now. These in the "alley of shame." The side of our drive which gets little sun, it's where the ones my wife doesn't like, end up.

There's a few out of the 12 on the "rose patio."

The heathers have done well, they don't look unattractive now the blooms have gone, so they can stay where they are.

 

[Sean Regan]

No rain forecast for a week so I gave everything a good watering this evening particularly the big acer in the front garden

 

[lifegardener]

Wishing everyone a peaceful and relaxing Memorial Day weekend.