What did you do in your garden today?

[big rockpile]

There is no way I can Free Range Chickens.

Critters check them day and night.

Lost two to Mountain Lion, one to Coon, one to Hawk, Dogs were trying but didn't manage to get in. Got a Bear hanging around that has been good.

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[Oliver Buckle]

Managed to walk down to the greenhouse, the window desperately needed opining and it is a bit of a 'specialist' job since I repaired it. Furthest I have gone since coming out of hospital, I am well done in by it, just hope It hasn't done any damage tothe wounds, but I can't do nothing forever.

 

[big rockpile]

So far got 2/3 watering done.

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[Sean Regan]

Nothing other than give the acers a spray when I came home from golf this afternoon.

I couldn't see Bunty in her nest and Bert wasn't on the TV aerial. So I got the step-stool out and checked. The nest was empty. So I guess her brood had fledged.
I imagine they left early this morning and they're all in the azaleas and rhodos. So after doing the week's shop tomorrow morning, I'll be able to get into the wisteria to finish pruning off the blossom spines and a lot of unwanted new growth, before watching the USA Open Golf on TV later in the afternoon.
It's all go, innit?

 

[Sean Regan]

It was shopping this morning, so I'm not going to do much until late this afternoon.

My doctor once told me that I should keep myself well hydrated, when playing golf in the summer, or indulging in any form of outdoor physical activity, so this would include gardening, wouldn't it?

So I've stocked up on, "essential gardening supplies."

This is the little Budweiser fridge I bought second-hand on eBay ten years ago. It was meant for Budweiser cans, but with a bit of fettling, (a glass shelf on the bottom), it can hold both bottles and cans.
There's been additions to the contents, as well as Budweiser bottles, a "rustic element" has been introduced with some cider and some "gentrification," with some Peroni.
The fridge is sitting on a recycled TV stand, which in turn sits on a base with four big castors, so I can move it out to clean behind it.

As well as taking some refreshment during a well-earned gardening break, I'll include watching sport on the TV in the tea-house. I'm well prepared for the tennis at Wimbledon. The BBC are currently showing the tournament at Nottingham, on the red button.

 

[Sean Regan]

I got into this wisteria late this afternoon.
I pruned off a few hundred blossom spines some unwanted top growth and any foliage below the pergola. This is to give the several clematis, on the garage wall a better chance. I also edged the ground cover in the narrow bed next to the garage with my strimmer. I tied down a few new wisteria branches which will cascade next year.

It only took an hour so I restricted my "rehydration," to one can of Magners.
I'm now watching the golf on TV.

(I did put away the broom).

 

[pepper]

Wasn't much to do in the garden today so I cut a bit of brush. Spent most of my day sitting in the shade on this forum and social media. Sold an oak table I made about a month ago. Not much of an exciting day but was relaxing. Hitting the gym after supper then a movie and bed.

 

[Heirloom farmer1969]

I just finished caging the last of my 150 tomatoes. Also, one of my corn plantings was getting a little weedy after all the rain we have had - I cannot live with weeds growing in my vegetables, so I tilled threw them. It looks much better!!

 

[Heirloom farmer1969]

I just finished caging the last of my 150 tomatoes. Also, one of my corn plantings was getting a little weedy after all the rain we have had - I cannot live with weeds growing in my vegetables, so I tilled threw them. It looks much better!!

Forgot my pictures

 

[big rockpile]

Ordered Pots, did some watering and moved everything out of the Greenhouse temperatures are to be excessive for awhile.

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[Sheal]

Your soil looks very sandy Heirloom.

It's been too hot here to do much, although I sat in the garden for an hour or so potting on seedlings. This evening I watered the outside plant pots with liquid tomato food.

 

[big rockpile]

Watered, hoed Okra and mowed around Blackberrys.

Picked Tomatoes and Strawberries.

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[Heirloom farmer1969]

Your soil looks very sandy Heirloom.

It's been too hot here to do much, although I sat in the garden for an hour or so potting on seedlings. This evening I watered the outside plant pots with liquid tomato food.

Last August, we had a severe flood. Thankfully only about a half acre got impacted. I had soil samples taken, and everything came back good, so I decided to go ahead and plant. Here I am, getting ready to plow under my cover crop about 50 feet from where the flood hit. Notice how healthy the young tomatoes are; they've only been planted like two weeks.
The soil is so rich and deep that it looks like a Hershey's chocolate bar.

 

[Sean Regan]

Rain is forecast for tomorrow and showers for the rest of the week. So reluctantly, I did a bit, starting with mowing both lawns and feeding the pots.
I gave both of these quinces a prune to reduce the height to the top of the fence, unchecked, the shade it will give to the lawn will encourage the growth of more moss than it already gets. I also pruned the camellia as I do each year. It will mean few flowers, but we don't mind, we don't want it growing too big. We like it for its glossy leaves.

I try to contain the quinces to a band along the top of the fence, I don't let them grow outwards as they would inhibit the growth of the rhodos and azaleas.

I about a foot off the tops of about a dozen "bolting" branches on the top of this sorbus. I don't want more height I'd rather it thicken up. I'll give it a bit more shape in the late autumn.
Behind this sorbus we've a dense bamboo forest at the bottom of the garden that looks impenetrable.

In reality, it's less than a foot deep and a bit whimpy, as for a couple of decades, it has needed lateral wire supports at three different heights to stop it flopping forwards. I have to check it now and again as the low voltage cables for the lanterns are attached to the base panels of the fence and the bamboo tries to get the odd can to grow up between the cables and the panel.

I've watered quite a bit in this long dry spell, paying a bit more for water is cheaper than replacing an established perennial that died for lack of water.

The lollypop acer in the front garden has benefitted as without enough water the leaves will go crispy.

I'm pleased with the growth of this acer palmatum Taylor, I bought on-line at the beginning of last year
I'd bought two in successive years before this and they both died. "Sight unseen" means you don't get an opportunity to see the graft and these can sometime be poorly executed and the joint restricts the amount of water the plant receives. It's a bit, pot luck. So I'm pleased with this one.

When I bought them I wondered if I would need some alternative new plants for when the flowers on these heathers faded, but they still look attractive without any, so they can stay.

The hebes in the new troughs outside the teahouse will shortly be in flower.

The lawn at the back end of the garden has recovered and yes I know the tea-house could do with a bit of a clean, but I remind myself that it's little more than just an ornate garden shed.

 

[Black_Thumb]

Just doing the normal "maintenance" things right now, which means mowing the yard and watering the garden. Very busy time of year with family and visitors, so I'm not getting as much done as I could. Family and friends are more important anyway!!

Our tomato plants, chard, cabbage, sunflowers, and squash are doing great, too!! The sunflowers showed up on their own in our pollinater garden. Last year their were two. This year, probably 20 growing.