What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

Pushed a mower a bit today, not far. It's kind of like a heavy Zimmer frame. compost heap is full and it is too much to go anout building one, so put mowings I and the missus made (mostly her) in bags I can stack in the sun.

We have a bit under an old apple tree that we are allowing to naturalise to some degree. There were snowdrops around the base of the tree, and I had introduced fritillary. This year a couple of common orchids have popped up, and there are some really nice grasses.

 

[Sean Regan]

Collected the new mower from Argos this afternoon after golf.
I bought it on-line and declined to add insurance to the purchase.
Got an e-mail before I went to get it, telling me it was ready for collection and did I want to insure it?
Binned the e-mail. Arrived at Argos, guess what? "Did I want to insure it?"
They're only doing their job, but it is annoying.
So got the lawn mowed
Had a swop around.
The heathers in the troughs on the patio aren't doing much, so I took for of them down to the bottom of the garden and put them in the two troughs either side of the tea-house steps. The pots are really too big for these planters, but I'm not bothered, I just put some packing under them.

Brought back the four hebes, two are now either side of the remaining heathers.

They are beginning to flower, so it'd be a waste leaving them at the bottom of the garden and wouldn't be seen from the French windows.

Unlikely to do much tomorrow as it looks like rain.
I could check out the old mower it's probably just the switch, which I could bypass to test it. If it is, they're about £6, but I can't be bothered. The new one is much lighter to use, does a good enough job and you can use it like a scythe, where you couldn't with the old one it was too heavy. The new one seems to have more "glide."

 

[Oliver Buckle]

There is a rose at the end of the garden that has been ignored for ages, this spring I cleared away weeds, cut back an overhanging cypress, mulched it heavily , and pruned it. Walked down the end of the garden today and admired the five huge, deep red blooms on it.
Split a log.

 

[Sean Regan]

Did nothing today other than give the top of the new trough a bit of a rub down and a further coat of paint (did it in the garage as it is trying to rain). Checked out the old mower. It was the switch as I suspected. Ordered a new one for £6.
Seemed a shame to chuck it out although I prefer the new one, it's not such a chore to carry round to the front garden. So I'll keep it.

Switching between watching the Wimbledon "qualies " at Roehampton and the tournament at Eastbourne.

Wimbledon is such a massive tournament, in the qualifiers there are three rounds, 128 men and the same number of women, compete for the sixteen places in the main draw in each section.
Losers in the first round of qualifying will take home £12,500. If they make it to the main draw, first round losers get £55,000. Compare that to the ATP 125 Challenger Tour where the winner only gets £21,600.
It's the same for all the grand slam events.
Whatever is the future for Emma Raducanu, no one I believe will ever match her achievement at the US Open.
She won ten consecutive matches, from the first round to the final without dropping a set.

 

[Sean Regan]

Went to the dentist this morning, not good news. Had a general check-up and X-Ray. She discovered a tooth with a decaying root, not able to save it. So had an extraction, first in fifty years.
This resulted in a bigger extraction...... from my bank account. £287.

The switch for my old mower has arrived. I'll dismantle the mower tomorrow to give the inside a good clean then replace the switch. The shed will need reorganising to accommodate both mowers.

Dentist advised, no work today, so no gardening, I've got my feet up watching the TV, switching between, cricket, golf and tennis (on 2 channels).

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

Went to the dentist this morning, not good news. Had a general check-up and X-Ray. She discovered a tooth with a decaying root, not able to save it. So had an extraction, first in fifty years.
This resulted in a bigger extraction...... from my bank account. £287.

The switch for my old mower has arrived. I'll dismantle the mower tomorrow to give the inside a good clean then replace the switch. The shed will need reorganising to accommodate both mowers.

Dentist advised, no work today, so no gardening, I've got my feet up watching the TV, switching between, cricket, golf and tennis (on 2 channels).

I feel you pain not able to garden, oh ya and your tooth too.

MOD

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Went a bit mad yesterday, went over the front lawn with the rake an got all the yarrow and moss, then picked it up with the mower, today I watched it get rained on and nursed my leg.

 

[Sean Regan]

Wasn't going to do anything today, but decided to put the new switch on the old Flymo Ultraglide mower. At the same time I dismantled it to clean out the interior. Having had other Flymos in the past I knew what to expect.
It was easy to remove the cover, just four screws and a couple of clips. The interior was full of grass cuttings, in every nook and cranny, particularly around the motor. It took some effort to dig it all out. It took about an hour, but the job's done and it's working fine.

 

[pepper]

The forest fire smoke is too strong again to do much. Made some more cages for my pepper and tomato plants. Got a 6 pack of beer and had 4, smoked a joint and made supper. I'll watch a movie and be in bed early. Tomorrow morning I have to help a friend unload some new horses. More manure for my garden this fall.

 

[Black_Thumb]

The forest fire smoke is too strong again to do much. Made some more cages for my pepper and tomato plants. Got a 6 pack of beer and had 4, smoked a joint and made supper. I'll watch a movie and be in bed early. Tomorrow morning I have to help a friend unload some new horses. More manure for my garden this fall.

I live in northeastern Tennessee and we had very hazy air today due to the smoke coming from up in Canada. It wasn't enough to irritate my eyes or lungs, but it does present problems for people with breathing issues. Still managed to cut my yard today, pull some sunflowers, let my chickens free range in the yard, pulled some weeds in the raised beds, harvested four squash, and then put the chickens to bed. In the midst of all that, our son, daughter-in-law, and two-year old grandson came over and I cooked chicken on the grill and pork in the air fryer for a nice feast. We at downstairs in the bar.

We have a whole glut of sunflowers, but something is killing them. I don't know what it is though. They were fine a couple days ago, but now they are dying. I need to do some research on that.

 

[Sean Regan]

Friday is a golf day, but I gave it a miss as it was going to rain. So too wet for "proper" gardening. I've more wisteria growth to prune.
So I spent some time sorting out the shed and the garage. Now I have two mowers, the bigger one for the larger back garden and the lighter one for the small front garden, I'm running out of room.

I built this shed 47 years ago, it's still water and mouse proof.


The tubs are for hedgehog, bird and squirrel food. There's still a bit of a bench on which to work.
Two mowers and a wet n'dry vac under it.

These A4 cabinets I "recycled" from my office when I retired are handy for tools.

Stuff has to be hung from the roof.

More working space, compost box, incinerator and jet-wash on the floor. Also my darts cabinet which can be hung on the shed door.

No spare room in the garage either. That wooden stand at the end is handy. I made it for if we need to take the oven out of its housing unit or the tumble dryer out of the cupboard under the stairs, I can slide them out onto it and pull it away on its castors. The big tub on its dolly is handy if there's anything big I need to move that's too large for the sack truck. But it's used mostly to house surplus pots.

My bench has an old sideboard under it for all sorts of stuff and power tools.
The floor needed a good clean as there was a lot of grass that came out of the mower I repaired.

The little room with the freezers, garden furniture and other "stuff" stays reasonably tidy.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

In-laws came over, so not much. Cleared some weeds before that were starting to flower, put them in black bags with a bit of grass on top and stood them out so rain can get in them. It drizzled a little, but nothing much, at least it is not still drying out.

 

[pepper]

Worked on my hardwood mushroom compost mostly.

 

[Heirloom farmer1969]

It's been to wet for the last week here to do anything, but today, I was finally able to go through my cukes. It looks like they're finally starting to bear!!

 

[Sean Regan]

Just a bit of wisteria pruning.... Well... a lot really.
I needed to get up on my ladder to do the top of this one that's on the pergola attached to the garage.

Then the one over the French windows.

I needed the ladder and my telescopic pruners. I can reach almost to the end from here.

This one on the fence was easier.

Took a lot off

It's an almost weekly job from now and into the Autumn.

It's the only way to control them, as they can grow up to around a foot in a week.