What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

Had the chainsaw out and cut up a lot of wood, garden mainly still to wet to get on to.

 

[gary350]

Feb 27 it is 74° I tilled garden soil in several locations to kill chick weed. -7° killed all but 11 garlic plants. 3 broccoli plants will soon have enough broccoli for 1 dinner. Wind is gusting to 35 mph it feels good and is very loud. Strawberries survived -7° they are very cold hardy plants.

 

[MiniOrchardDude]

Pulled 2 sour cherries and a bunch of its suckers.

Nice to be out so early in the season for zone 5b.

Zone 5b spray your fruit trees and fruiting bushes. I am at bud swell.

MOD

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Got done cleaning out the whole front of the house bed area. and 4 hours later it rained. So now no garden stuff outside today.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Sowed a second lot of tomatoes. also a little packet of saved aquilegia seed I found tucked away, no idea how old or what type, give them a chance. It's been a fine drizzle all day and promises a warm night, so I brought a lot of plants out of the greenhouse, they can go back if necessary, but I would rather they got rain than a watering can.

 

[big rockpile]

Mainly Repotting.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

Did nothing today, but an "incendiary," dropped through the letter box today.
"A David Austin catalogue."

Last year, I bought these two plants for the hanging baskets in the hall, to replace some tired peace lilies. But they "weren't well received." So I bought more peace lilies.

There wasn't anywhere else in the house for these, so they ended up outside.

I don't like plastic pots, so I bought this for them and painted it. (twice!)
This brought the number of these planters we've got to five.

It doesn't look as if they've survived the winter, but I'm not bothered.

"We've" ordered two patio roses from the catalogue, to replace them. The planter will take much bigger pots.

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There was a voucher for 15% off with the catalogue, but they still cost £43.

It wasn't that long ago they would have been half that price.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

It wasn't that long ago they would have been half that price.

I remember, it seems like only yesterday you could get a fish and chip dinner with apple pie and custard, and still get change from a ten bob note

 

[big rockpile]

My wife was home so I went shopping bought me a Boston Fern.

Watered and Potted today.

Got to get things ready for some Mushrooms.

big rockpile

 

[Oliver Buckle]

My hole now has wood, a layer of leaves and a layer of compost in it. Soil is going to take a bit of work, most of what came out was solid clay that I piled around the edges, or have drying ready to burn, still I have a couple of months before I want to plant.
Planted more seeds. The compost I was sorting for the hole had many small sticks in it, saved them for HK.

 

[Logan]

Not in the garden but i potted up 21 gladioli corms, started off with 12,the roots started growing and i put them in the greenhouse for a few days because the next few nights are going to be very cold.

 

[Steve @ Celtic Farm]

Been growing lisianthus, snap dragons and foxglove indoors and they seem to grow as i watch .

 

[big rockpile]

Got some Trays and Inserts in.

Sifted some Compost and put some Compost on my garden.

Put some Wood Chips down around Trees and soaking Straw for Mushrooms.

Did some watering and fed my Worms.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

Did a bit yesterday.
Pruned the roses, fed them and gave them a spray of Sulphur Rose, to hopefully reduce any black spot this year.

The heathers are doing well, had to take one out from each trough to give the others more room.

Last year's hebes have kept their foliage. This is just one.

As have the others in troughs either side of the tea-house steps.

Two quince, on the side fence, already in bloom.

Did a bit more today. Went to the garden centre this morning for some "rose compost" for the two David Austin roses that should arrive mid-week. Some "green sticks" you can't have too many of those, some shady area grass seed and some new pots for the roses when they go in the troughs.


I decided to look for some rectangular ones, to provide for more volume of compost, as the aperture at the top of the trough is only 11" wide. Round ones wouldn't hold much. Luckily, I found some which were a foot wide, I didn't expect to find some even that size. I like the fact that the drain holes in these pots are on little "cones." So there will be some water retention for dry spells.

With a bit of, "fettling with a hacksaw," I trimmed two sides of the lips and now they fit perfectly.
I gave the trough a good wash down, then let it dry in the sun. Rubbed down the top then painted it, the "weather side" and the ends of the planks, though it wasn't really necessary.

I'm all systems go now.

These roses will add to the seventeen we have in green ceramic pots and two in side borders.
I mixed up the grass seed with some compost and spread it under the acer, then tamped it down. Hopefully it will germinate. There was some grass coming through already, but I'm covering my bases.

On the first dry day, I'll give the lawn a mow. These roses will add our total of 16 in green ceramic pots and two in boarders.

That might be tomorrow, as there will be no golf as my leccy trolley is "still at the menders," It'll be ready before I play on Wednesday. I could hire an electric trolley from the pro shop tomorrow for £10. But I'm not that desperate to play.

The blackbirds have kindly emptied the eaves gutter above the drive of moss, in their search for live food. So I had that to clear, but then I was done for the day.

 

[skinyea]

Yesterday- Got 120 Red Pontiac seed potatoes in the ground. All from last year harvest.
Todays plan was to get another bed of potatoes in the ground. But have been in Hot tub twice and still cannot move.
Might have over done it yesterday.