What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

Monday's always a golf day, but rain was scheduled, so I didn't bother. It's bad enough fighting through the traffic now the kids are back at school.
It takes twice as long as when they are on holiday. I've always said, "I'll vote for any party that would promise to end education."
Fortunately, I got all the mowing edging and vacuuming done yesterday, before the rain.

 

[Sean Regan]

It rained all night and was still raining first thing, there was also quite a bit of wind. You'd be daft to do any gardening in that. So I didn't, I went to play golf with a friend in it instead.

We thought it might get better after a few holes, but it really chucked it down after fourteen, so we walked in. A few brave souls carried on, but others walked in after several holes too.

 

[Popper]

Root pruned a pot bound jasmine mogra Need some advice pls

 

[Ernst]

Root pruned a pot bound jasmine mogra Need some advice pls

I am learning so what is "Root Pruned?"

 

[Oliver Buckle]

And what do you need advice on? Not that I have ever grown a mogra.

PS, you might get more out of it by posting a new thread with a specific question, this is what we did today and is quickly yesterday's news.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

The weather has been a bit 'iffy' and I have mostly been in the greenhouse. I have troughs of daffodils that come out in the Spring. They have been left a bit long and I have been emptying then, sorting out the small bulbs, and replanting them with the mature bulbs and fresh compost. I planted the small bulbs in the HG buckets I had tomatoes in after taking out the top four inches, then I topped them up with fresh compost.

 

[Popper]

And what do you need advice on? Not that I have ever grown a mogra.

PS, you might get more out of it by posting a new thread with a specific question, this is what we did today and is quickly yesterday's news.

I did leme do a copy paste

 

[Popper]

Hey guys so i have a mogra that was root bound and the pot broke so I was forced to repot
The plant was about to flower (it's spring here by me)
I ended up cutting some roots and repotted her and pinched the flower pods of
How long do I let her stand before allowing the plant to bloom again?
I didn't top prune as i feel that the roots will need the additional carbs to grow and it will be watered so there's no fear of transpiration loss

 

[madams]

Raked up the first few leaves that had fallen in the storm

 

[Ernst]

Today was more of helping an elderly woman with the remains of her house that caught fire.
That relates to gardening becuse she gave me a frame that was a canvas covered outside shed of some kind. Never knew there were such things but hey it will make a fantastic start to a greenhouse.
To that I also was gifted a thing to make a trellis with.
Now what can grow up on a trellis thing?

Does anyone think that could have some sort of netting or perhaps a piece of wire fencing attached and something can climb?
I kind-ah though it would be useful that way.

Tomorrow more rototilling as it has rained and more grass will be a-growin' Just sayin'

 

[Meadowlark]

Now what can grow up on a trellis thing?

Pole beans, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, peas, any vining plant

Does anyone think that could have some sort of netting or perhaps a piece of wire fencing attached and something can climb?
I kind-ah though it would be useful that way.

WOW, what a gift! I would love to have that thing and in fact just looking at it believe I will make one using some leftover chain-link fence posts.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I would be inclined to simply put strings across the top and peg them down either side, then grow beans. Use hemp or jute string and when they are finished you can cut the string and put the whole lot straight on the compost heap, wire fencing you would have to untangle them from.

 

[Ernst]

Pole beans, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, peas, any vining plant

WOW, what a gift! I would love to have that thing and in fact just looking at it believe I will make one using some leftover chain-link fence posts.

Well She is eighty five going on eighty six so there are a few things at the old place that there is no real use for in the new one.
Her place is very nice and that (unless painted) might upset the neighbors.

Myself , I have friends in low places.. Plus I have a truck so I think it's fair that I get first pickings.

There was a tent-shed that none of them thought had any value and I think I can make a Greenhouse in time. I'm looking at some of the 2" by 10" rafters that have been exposed by the fine Firefighters when they did their job and added water and the sheet rock caved in. I think those very fine old-school rafters may make a nice base to cut "pole-holes" into as they lay attached to a cinder-block foundation.
When I-ze be poor I scrounge! I have hope now, for a small but real greenhouse thanks to her.

After all, it's recent human history that we buy things and accept they are to be thrown away in our Make-Trash culture. Not that I am innocent just sayin'

 

[Ernst]

Raked up the first few leaves that had fallen in the storm

I know. It's clear to me that in Southern Illinois it is on for Fall.
It will be two pigs in a sack for weather with Summer still trying and Fall at the ready.
Didn't the Farmers almanac say heavy snow?
I think it has snowed in what Oregon and Utah? I may not have the right places but it has already snowed at elevation out West.

 

[Ernst]

What did I do in the Garden today..

Well as promised rototilling and it is starting to make me happy, that I feel I am about to get to the place with the clay soil tilling where I have a good chance of being satisfied with the top 10 inches.
We shall see if it truly makes for a goodly soil bed but I have to finish and not rush to plant a soil builder crop if I'm not ready for that.
If I miss the best time to plant the winter soil builder mix then i won't plant that this year.
I also wonder if I would just grow out as far as it gets, some orchard grass; with this unknown future weather. It just might stay warm enough for a while. I don't know... Advice?

I took a stiff tine rake to the east boundary of the plot and raked the spillage back in bounds so that is a satisfying result. I am referring to the tilth and it's fluffiness. That is not dense clay shoveled into a mound on the east side.

Earlier this season I was gifted Early Girl and Pear tomato plants.
Pear is at it's end but Early is giving it another push.

The new blossoms on the Early Girls don't seem to appear in that picture but they have another five or six new blooms on new growth. I am using my compost and nothing else so I like that.
So is that a vote for an extended season or just genetics. I'll be thinking on that one.
I have saved seed and there is another selected seed donor. The sad-sack one.

On a personal note my Dr. loves it that I am gardening and I do too. It is a healthy and rewarding activity.