What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

It hasn't half rained a lot.
The ground is wet through and I can hardly do anything out there. Went round the outside of my 'Storyshack" (Shed with bookshelves and a 'desk') and cleared the blown leaves away so they don't make it damp inside, potted on a few seedlings in the greenhouse and serviced my little lamp heater in the other greenhouse, they say it will be cold tonight, and I was well chilled when I came in about 5pm.
The patio cherry I ordered arrived, it is called 'Van' and is on a rootstock that is supposed to keep it to 1.2 meters, nothing ventured, it was knockdown cheap. I remember getting a casual job planting some of the first cherries of reduced size, the orchard made it to about ten feet tall, which meant the rows could be mechanically netted (I told them that out of line tree would cause problems), that must have been about 35 years ago, I kept bees there for some years. The orchard has been grubbed up now, times change.

 

[sugarapsa]

Seems that a bird liked the seedlings of a most recent planting almost as much as I did. I must of had 100 or so that had just raised above the soil. I'll be darn if that little sucker didn't pluck every one of em. So, I reseeded the entire bed a second time.

 

[big rockpile]

Just came home from Lawn and Garden Show.

Learned a lot guy told me there is no reason I can't keep my Greenhouse cool in the Summer. Work with it more.

Seems I'm pricing plants way low.

I found I have been going to compost a high dollar plant. So I dug some out and repotted. Ok they was Peace Lillies.

Found I have Devils Ivy.

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[big rockpile]

Had some Black Barrels full of water thinking they would keep the Greenhouse warmer but didn't seem to help.

So I drained them today and took them out.

Repotted some plants and mixed soil.

Fed my Worms Coffee Grounds and Egg Shells.

They are putting storage for me in the store for pots and soil.

They keep coming up with things for me to sell.

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[Sean Regan]

Nothing today, other than check the trail/cams. No hedgehogs, but Marcel the field mouse put in an appearance. Nice that he survived the winter.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Yesterday decently sunny, good drying day. Sunny today also. Will be raking more leaves today out of beds. etc. Maybe light the twig/wood/leaf pile depending on the wind.

 

[skinyea]

Cleaned out Asparagus bed. put down fertilizer.

started multiple lettuces inside for transplant outside in several weeks

 

[Sean Regan]

Actually did do a bit, gave the roses another spray of Sulphur Rose as the rain would have washed off the original application. Same with the moss patches, more iron sulphate. Last week's dose hasn't killed it. Checked the new pipework for the replacement water heater for leaks and found none, thankfully.

 

[Sean Regan]

It's very cold today, so I was only out for half an hour and I'm back in, watching Andy Murray struggle against a twenty-four year-old. It's one set all at the moment.

I sorted out the bamboo forest at the bottom of the garden, since the new post went in It's been missing a restraining wire, so was a bit floppy at the right hand-end. This was activating the security light on the side of the tea-house.

I'd run out of wire, so had to go into the village hardware store for some more.

Doesn't look much different, but the top is now closer to the fence. The new wire is strung between the top of two posts.

Then I got into this "Amber" clematis on the fence next to the kitchen window.

Last summer it was huge ball of foliage mixed up with the big jasmine that is in the bed at the left-hand end.
At the end of last year, I pruned the jasmine right down to the ground as usual, (it grows higher than the fence) and drastically cut back the clematis.

I've spread it out. I might dig out the jasmine and put it where I've a gap along the side fence near the rockery.
You can see one of the soft wood pergola posts. It last got painted two years ago. Not been touched since.
Dulux outdoor paint is excellent for such things.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

Sprayed 16 gallons of copper last week. 20 gallons of horticultural oil yesterday.

Fruiting buds are starting to swell. Little earlier than I would like for zone 5B.

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[lifegardener]

It's very cold today, so I was only out for half an hour and I'm back in, watching Andy Murray struggle against a twenty-four year-old. It's one set all at the moment.

I sorted out the bamboo forest at the bottom of the garden, since the new post went in It's been missing a restraining wire, so was a bit floppy at the right hand-end. This was activating the security light on the side of the tea-house.

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I'd run out of wire, so had to go into the village hardware store for some more.

Doesn't look much different, but the top is now closer to the fence. The new wire is strung between the top of two posts.



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Then I got into this "Amber" clematis on the fence next to the kitchen window.

Last summer it was huge ball of foliage mixed up with the big jasmine that is in the bed at the left-hand end.
At the end of last year, I pruned the jasmine right down to the ground as usual, (it grows higher than the fence) and drastically cut back the clematis.

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I've spread it out. I might dig out the jasmine and put it where I've a gap along the side fence near the rockery.
You can see one of the soft wood pergola posts. It last got painted two years ago. Not been touched since.
Dulux outdoor paint is excellent for such things.


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This shall all flush our beautifully.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Edging and weeding, weeded the hyacinths which are all coming through, the missus buys them for indoors, plus we get given them occasionally, and when they are done I plant them out in the garden next to the path to recover from being forced. They take a year or two, but I am beginning to get quite a few now, might dig them and reposition them when they finish and it has dried out a bit, something to consider. I found the huge leylandii hedge that grows along the north side is sending roots under the raised bed which are then rising in the bed, Started cutting a trench alongside the bed, chopping through a lot of roots. It's a bit of hard physical going down each side with a felling axe and then digging it out, I'll have to do it in short stages.
Planted second lot of tomato seeds, first lot just getting second leaves, also planted some seed I saved from a nice ornamental grass I was passing last Autumn and some Early Nantes carrots in a bucket, my others are coming on well.
Chopped some wood, tidied some pots, general stuff I could do without stepping on the garden. It is almost liquid mud it has rained so much, can't do anything really, though there are places I would love to hoe over. No rain forecast for the next couple of days, then they say rain Thurs through to Mon. Squelch.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Raking leave, removing leaves, burning leaves.

Just got a text from my cousin Cindy who now lives in Tennessee. Her prior home up in Washington state was only surrounded by pine trees, so no "real" raking. This new house has "real" trees that need raking. So she tells me the joy she is having raking yesterday, I told her she's got honeymoon leaf raking syndrome, and told her to talk to me after 36 years. LOL.

 

[Sean Regan]

Not much today, just gave everything a feed now there's signs of growth.

 

[big rockpile]

I repotted Snake Plants and Geraniums.

Released Lady Bugs and checked my Worms.

Mixed Soil.

Mulched around one tree.

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