What did you do in your garden today?

[big rockpile]

Started out at daylight seen my Boston Ferns hanging in middle of the driveway. So I was taking them to the shade.
Son comes out what you doing? Putting my Ferns in the shade they can't handle sun. Oh that was only temporary. Yea kind of like my Lawnmower setting out and it is to rain.

Then I watered stuff in pots outside.

Cut my wife some Lemon Balm to dry.

Sowed some more Butterfly Milk Weed.

Watered stuff in the Greenhouse and Raised Beds and Elephant Ears.

Weeded two 4X10 Strawberry Beds and watered them. They are Everberring so I hope to get some Strawberries.

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[Oliver Buckle]

Cut my wife some Lemon Balm to dry.

What does she use it for? I grow it beside the path where it will get brushed and smell good, but never came across a use for it.
My perpetual strawberries are still bearing flowers, but the fruit isn't ripening, they are in buckets so I have stuck one in the greenhouse to see if that helps.
Started dealing with the ash from my fire, I had left it in the wheelbarrow under the oak tree and the rain had damped it down a bit, so not the usual necessity to mask for the clouds of dust, got a fair bit of burnt clay to crush there as well as the wood ash, a good barrowload of soil improvement.
Found my greenhouse heaters and sorted them, put a little bit of heat in with my sweet peppers, chillies, and the last of the tomatoes.
Hoed a bit, finished off the last of the plum tree's prune, cleaned up where I had peas last year and put some strawberry runners in buckets, topped up a few pots with fresh compost/manure mix, things like lilies that have died down in them.
Definite Autumn feel to the day yesterday.

 

[big rockpile]

Watered my garden, first time this year. Mulching did good but it is just too dry.

Pulled some Weeds out of Herb Bed. Cut some Parsley for my wife.

My wife made some Chili with Mutton and Homemade Crackers.

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[blenor]

That invasive plant that I think smells like washing up liquid must be lemon balm. It established itself at the back of a border and I keep pulling it up. The tomatoes in the greenhouse are still growing strongly - no sign of any blight. Will lift some more potatoes on the veg plot this afternoon. One variety has been badly damaged by slugs. The other ones seem mostly OK.

 

[big rockpile]

Well started out the day straighten out on my Worms.

Everything was going good until I went to get Castings out then they all escaped but left Cocoons. Went looked yesterday had baby European Nightcrawlers.

Today I went through got about 500 Worms in their New Home.

Got about 80 pounds of Castings.

Put some Castings around my Tomatoes and Peppers.

Picked Green Beans, Peppers and Okra today.

Did some watering.

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[254gardener]

Transplanted some green onions, watered the garden. Planted some shasta daisies...wish me luck.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Well started out the day straighten out on my Worms.

The idea of straightening your worms made me smile

Wasn't allowed to garden yesterday, the family had organised a gathering for my 80th birthday this week, had a very nice day.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Split a good ripe chilli for the seed, 50 seeds in it.
Watered greenhouses a bit.
Had a box of leeks I had failed to plant out, dug out two tomato buckets that were finished and planted three leeks in each, I'll fill them as they grow, hopefully. They have been left a bit long, but if you don't try nothing happens.
Did some general clearing up, hoeing, and weeding, nothing strenuous. Sat in my shed a fair bit re-reading "Rivers of London", it's been a while since I read it. Ben Aaranovitch, an easy name to find in any alphabetically based system, and, like a lot of people with foreign sounding names, a Londoner born and bred, I know the places he writes about well.

 

[big rockpile]

I watered all. Got Lettuce, Radishes, Beets and Carrots coming up.

Planted Kale.

Picked Green Beans, Okra and Peppers. Oh got two Watermelons.

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[Oliver Buckle]

It was a bit of a workout, but so satisfying to see progress.

Can be, I mowed front and back , then went over them with the electric rake, then mowed again to pick up the 'spoil' from the rake. Had my i-phone in my pocket and it counted 14, 000 steps, and I was pushing a mower for a bit over half of that I reckon. It's good for you in the long run, but little and often is better than overdoing it.
Watered greenhouses, planted a few bits and pieces, now tomatoes are done I am getting some spare buckets, means I can shift things about, shove them in the greenhouse if it gets cold, carrot, radish, strawberry, leeks, it's a bit experimental, but it's growing from seed, or strawberry runners, so what's to lose? If you don't play you can't win.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Day off today, 80th birthday, but I did go and try out my new light weight shovel, it's great. I have had the old one years, I think it was left behind on a building job, and it is really heavy. Spent the day going round Old Comp gardens near Sevenoaks, they are the home of Dyson's nursery and have a good collection of salvias.

 

[Sean Regan]

Some years, this Sorbus at the bottom of the garden we've had for over thirty years, has very little blossom so few berries.
This is a year when it has had plenty of both.

The berries hang on for longer than the leaves.

 

[big rockpile]

Mulched Blackberrys.

It rained off and on.

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[big rockpile]

Picked last of the Green Beans, picked Peppers and Okra. Got my first Tomato yesterday. I know.

Watered stuff in the Greenhouse and Inside plants.

Put Compost where I'm going to plant Garlic. Put Compost around several plants.

Checked prices on Cover Crop Seed and several Grass Seed.

Guess I need to buy another Tractor mine went to the shop $3,000 to fix it.

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[Oliver Buckle]

Got my first Tomato yesterday. I know.

Stuff happens, I had four outdoor plants that were looking really good, then we had three days continuous rain and they all got blight, built a big fire and burnt the plants and a full bucket of what hat been lovely looking tomatoes a few days before.