What did you do in your garden today?

[gary350]

@gary350 , are those condos backing up to your property? bet they are jealous. Awesome size veggie plot. I don't have a large direct sunny area. At best I can place a large pot is a small sun area and put a tomato plant in. However, with all the Amish about us, and the two of us, we get plenty of veggies.

Houses behind us are HOA they built 50 houses in that farm field 5 years ago. All the houses are 38' wide 42' long = 3192 sq ft including 1st & 2nd floor. Inside floor plan is different on every house. The house directly behind us has 6 bedroom I think there are 9 Mexican men living there now. They are construction workers they leave when the sun comes up and return after dark, they are very hard workers. 1 men said, he is staying for 6 months and sends all his money home to wife an children. He said, he makes more money in 6 months than he can make in 10 yrs in Mexico. The man that owns that house rents out the rooms. Developer is going to build 480 new houses in another farm field.

The woman in the house to the right spoke to us 1 times 4 years ago she came to the fence I thought she was going to say Hello but she said, Your yard hurts my eyes you are going to do something with it aren't you? Wife was quick to say, we are building a chicken coop right next to this fence. The woman was quick to throw her head back and walk away. She is a Typical HOA person they think they are better than us. They put up a 6 ft tall fence so they don't have to look at our garden. Snooty people keep to themself.

The people that live in the other 2 houses to the left won't speak. More full blooded HOA people.

Our neighbor hood has been here 45 years we are not HOA. The original house that was on our lot burned 9 years ago. A contractor built a new house and we bought it. Lots of very nice people in our neighborhood we all wave and talk to each other. 4 people on our street have a vegetable garden. Man across the street has a garden slightly large than mine 30'x70'. We talk to everyone on our street all the time everyone is very friendly.

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing in ours, but we cleared the last of the branches, in the garden between ours and another neighbour's. The guy between us is in a long-term hospital facility.
I noticed the little phlox plug plants on the shed window sill are starting to show little purple flowers.
A week ago, as here, there were none.

Trafford Borough Council has sent a letter advising of the community charge increase.
The "good news" it will only be 7.5% (The maximum they are allowed to raise it is 7.9%)
The "bad news," is that we will now have to pay £50 a year for the green, (garden waste) bin to be emptied each week. This will bring the charge up to err.. 7.9%
Strange that isn't it?

 

[Esther Knapicius]

@gary350 see your from Middle Tennessee, have cousins live in Cleveland, Tennessee. They moved there about 3 years ago from Washington State, the politics there were nuts, and crowded. One cousin left up there in Washington State, all the rest moved to Tennesse and north Georgia. Easier for us to see them at Thanksgiving. All 16 of them. Fun.

 

[Sean Regan]

Sunny and warm +12c.

I got quite a bit done either side of lunch, a bit of shopping and doing some laundry.

I got into the little bed at the bottom of the garden.

I used my garden vac to blow out a lot of dead leaves behind the bamboo. There's some dead canes that need pruning out and the "stand" looks a bit thin, but it always does at this time of the year.

The two new rhodos I bought yesterday went in. I turned the hedgehog feeder round to face the tea-house. I also put in three roof tiles to act as stepping stones so I can get to it when the food needs refilling.

I gave this little acer a haircut with garden shears, as I do every year, to stop it getting too big. I might take a bit more off on Thursday.

The pagoda was looking a bit sorry for itself, losing some paint.

So the roofs got a coat of "Teal Green" Hammerite. I dunno if metal paint was designed for concrete, but that's what it always gets.

The teahouse got a good wash down and the windows cleaned.

Even the floor of the verandah!

It doesn't need repainting, but I might give the "weather-side" a coat and possibly the verandah floor.

I replaced the dead heather with three new ones, which were only £2.50 each.

This is the little azalea that will take its turn in the pot by the front door, when it's in bloom.

I cut the grass and gave everything some water.

The two rhodos, the three heathers and the azalea I bought were all pot bound and the bottom of each plant dry. They don't water enough in these stores.

But we're looking OK.

I'm trying to keep the sun out of the camera lens with a bit of cardboard.

Tomorrow, when I come home from golf, I'm going to use the grass seed I bought, where it's needed, like under the acer palmatum and give the lawn a feed, it still looks dog rough in places.

On Thursday I'll do a bit of patio re-pointing, which I'd been putting off until we got a succession of dry days. Unfortunately, they've arrived!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I expanded another native garden. From 35 square feet before to 120 sq. ft. now! It'll take a couple years to establish, but should start becoming beneficial to wildlife as soon as late summer.

 

[Ruderunner]

Looked at the mud right now. But, it is drying.

 

[Scott F]

We had some unseasonably warm weather so I thought I’d get a head start and made a couple of new raised beds for strawberries to go with the raised beds I made a couple years ago. I partially filled with soil I had on hand. I still need quite a bit more to fill them up.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I got my garden pond up and running for its 12th season!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Yesterday still continue with clean up. Have a young man over to help. He will be back on Thursday. Lots of leaf clean up still to do. Husband glad I found someone. Today doing errands, lunch with a friend at the Whip Tavern, 15 mins from me. https://www.thewhiptavern.com/#1

 

[Sean Regan]

It was a golf then shopping day, so I didn't get into the garden until 4.00pm.
But it had been warm all day. I removed the finials on the corners of the pagoda roofs (all 36 of them) they just sit in holes I drilled and are secured with a dab of clear silicone. They will need re-painting. I gave the roofs another coat of paint.
Applied more iron sulphate on the moss patches on the lawn, where necessary. Spread some grass seed around, gave the grass a feed and a good watering.
I was going to do some "patio pointing" tomorrow, but I've other stuff to do.

 

[Meadowlark]

Planted my first crop of corn today...about 5 rows of 60 ft. each. Probably make a second shorter planting in another month and possibly a third planting another month after that.... succession planting provides almost continuous fresh corn for the table starting late May, June, July, and August. Fantastic eating.

 

[ThatsMyPurseIDontKnowYou]

Finished building my 6 10' raised beds today. Now I need to get the soil to fill them.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Finished building my 6 10' raised beds today. Now I need to get the soil to fill them.

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Nicely put together, they seem narrow.
If they were foot by two foot and you increase to ten foot by four foot you double the volume by only increasing the wall from twenty four foot to twenty eight. Not only cost effective for timber, you reduce the ratio of wall to contents which will reduce water loss through the timber walls and keep temperatures more constant. It is fairly easy to work two foot in from either side.

 

[ThatsMyPurseIDontKnowYou]

Nicely put together, they seem narrow.
If they were foot by two foot and you increase to ten foot by four foot you double the volume by only increasing the wall from twenty four foot to twenty eight. Not only cost effective for timber, you reduce the ratio of wall to contents which will reduce water loss through the timber walls and keep temperatures more constant. It is fairly easy to work two foot in from either side.

Its for tomatoes. And they are open on the bottom, so ideally the roots grow into the existing soil. I've filled these up with a bunch of old rotten firewood and brush.

Plan is to plant about 6 tomatoes per bed. I'll be doing the florida weave method with a metal stake at each end of the beds.

 

[Tundra20]

cut full bag of lettuce from my aquaponic system