What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

Found some potatoes I had left in the garage last Autumn. A few were well chitted and I dropped a couple of hefty chunks of wood in the bottom of each of three plastic bags, scraped up the area around the chopping block and levelled off with wood chips and mud , put in a layer of leaves, then mixed rotted horse manure with some topsoil heavy in clay I had put aside , put in four or five inches, planted the potatoes that were chitted a couple to each bag, then put another four or five inches on and rolled the top of the bag down. I have five of them. I don't know what the potatoes were, ones the missus had left as being small, at least they are all a varieties she would buy.
Chopped up a couple of days worth of wood, removed a dead branch from the old apple tree and chopped it into manageable chunks with the chain saw. The tree is ancient and worth nothing as an apple, but quite picturesque with snowdrops around the base, which will come soon, and some snake s head fritillary. I let the grass under it grow wild all Summer and chop it down in the Autumn, it really seems to have increased the number of insects in the garden.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Over years, the top layer of ply gets multiple cracks

The roof is very strong, it easily takes my weight when I'm pruning next door's trees.

So far so good, careful. My missus insists I take my phone out in the garden with me and take the bolt off the back gate if she is out, just in case. I laugh, but it's sensible really.

 

[Sean Regan]

So far so good, careful. My missus insists I take my phone out in the garden with me and take the bolt off the back gate if she is out, just in case. I laugh, but it's sensible really.

Yes! I too take my phone if I'm in the garden. I also make her wear her alarm bracelet if i'm in the garden. She also wears it when I leave the house. It connects with a call centre. They have the code to the key box on the side of the house. We've had it for six months, fortunately so far never used. Well worth the £7.50 a month.

No gardening today, it's a bit wet and I'd quite a few chores to do. Including "vacuuming everywhere." (Not that it needed it. My wife's physio was coming at 1.00 pm and you know what women are like, if there's visitors coming!)
But I did order eight creeping phlox plug plants on eBay, to add to the rockery.
I like this colour.

I'll pot them up and put them on the windowsill in the shed for the time being.

 

[gary350]

Today I pulled up 3 lbs. 2 oz. of carrots from a 10 ft row. The other 120 ft of carrots will stay until May 1st. 3 months from now remaining carrots will be larger.

 

[UrbanWild]

Yesterday, after several days of warming following the deep freeze, I thought the ground in beds was thawed enough to work. I was wrong. The to 2-4 inches were workable but before that was a 2" layer of ice. So after chopping up two larger beds, I was done. I did stop a bunch of make seeds in one of them. I had wanted to plant tatsoi in the other but I've temporarily lost my seeds.

I also did work on the steel trellising, maintenance in bird feeders and poles, and got the compost area for another delivery of leaves. My friend delivered that load today and being full of acorns, the squirrels are having a field day. He also brought me about 20 or so used but sound privacy fence pickets. Now I won't have any excuse for doing some fence mending soon.

I finally got my hose thawed so I was able to wash out buckets (for various composting connection efforts), animal watering dishes, etc.

Today I started receiving seeds and it looks like a few plants I ordered are in a city 2 hours away so I might get those tomorrow.