What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

Too wet to do anything today.
But my wife made me smile yesterday. She called me into the lounge saying "Quick! There's some huge birds flying around the garden!"
I managed to grab my camera and quickly caught one as it settled on the chimney of a house over the back, before it flew off.

When I enlarged it, I could see it was a bog-standard seagull!

That chimney could do with a bit of re-pointing.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

taking a break from leaf removal, suppose to rain in an hour.

 

[Sean Regan]

I wasn't going to anything today, but it warmed up, so I gave the roses a spray.
I've had to order some more of this,

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I wasn't going to anything today, but it warmed up, so I gave the roses a spray.
I've had to order some more of this,

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Does that really work? I use something else, right now forgot name, it comes in a spray bottle. If I spray early when fresh new leaves seems to work.

 

[Sean Regan]

Does that really work? I use something else, right now forgot name, it comes in a spray bottle. If I spray early when fresh new leaves seems to work.

Some of the time. But once black spot gets established, it's hard to eradicate.

 

[ThatsMyPurseIDontKnowYou]

Cut up my seed potatoes today so each eye was its own piece. Going to let them dry out a few days, then toss them each in a solo cup with soil to get started for a month before I move them outside.

 

[Sean Regan]

It's a nice sunny day, but still a bit cold. I've nothing pressing that needs doing in the garden.

I did some shopping in Asda this morning and three more clematis "followed me home." At three for £5, I could hardly say, "no," could I?

I'll find a home for them.

I took them out to the shed for planting tomorrow.


"Bert and Brenda," "our" two blackbirds, spend a lot of time in the garden.
Bert likes to sit on the side fence where he can observe what's going on. He tolerates the smaller birds, but any blackbird or something bigger he chases away from "his" territory. He waits for me to go to the shed and take food down to the feeder under the azaleas near the French windows. By the time I get back to the shed with the empty container. He's in there already.

Our sambucas is doing well. I removed quite a bit of moss that gathers in the forks of the branches.

There's a lot of tiny flowers on it already.

I must keep an eye on the two acer palmatums, I'll need to remove the training net and wire before the foliage is too large to pass through the mesh of the net without damage. Hopefully, they will have "set," when I do. I'll then, "shorten their hems."

 

[Tundra20]

cut nearly 5 gallon bucket of beet n turnip greens for the chickens
cut us two gallon bags of lettuce and spinach and some parsley

 

[JBtheExplorer]

After many years of not keeping track, I decided to sit down tonight and make a list of all my native plants. It took a long time, but it's nice to have a complete list again. I'm sure I'm still missing a couple that I'll add later.

It's surprising to see 78 species! Last time I counted, I think I had around 45 species.

 

[gary350]

73°f today so I tilled garden soil about 1" deep just to kill grass and weeds. It took about 20 minutes to till the whole garden. I made a 6" x 64" carrot levee for 350 Red carrot seeds, I leveled it with a carpenter level. 6x64=384 spaces for 1" diameter carrots. 50% germination = 175 carrots. Boards are a levee to hold in water so it does not escape to water grass & weeds. Cement board over the top to hold moisture for 3 week for better germination. NO NPK fertilizer on plants this year. Potato plants are starting to come up, 11 plants in this 1 location these are small French Fingerling potatoes. Tornados forecast for Sunday night. Moles are every where already they eat seed potatoes.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I doubled the size of my mailbox garden.

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing today, as it was golf then shopping. Fed the birds when I got home and checked on the wisteria. The blossom buds have burst out in the last week, so there will be the usual big displays.

The rhodos are looking really healthy with lots of buds.

Tomorrow, I'll plant out the three clematis I bought on Monday.

 

[gary350]

I cut down the blackberry briers canes stickers thorns. 7 ft diameter ball of thorns. Berries are actually Cumberland Black Raspberries native to south east USA. Berries are 1" diameter with great flavor. I made 38 gallons of Red wine last summer it has to age several year. Made many jars of jam also I pick 15 gallons of berries every summer. Plants will grow back unless I run lawn mower over them several times this summer.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Plants will grow back unless I run lawn mower over them several times this summer.

If the US ones are anything like ours they could grow back anyway

 

[gary350]

If the US ones are anything like ours they could grow back anyway

Yes, plants are very aggressive it will take several years to kill roots if I want them dead. This patch was 9 years old with too many dead canes, thorns are 3/8" to 1/2" long. Rhizomes roots grow out in all directions some are 10 ft from the berry patch. They are easy to keep under control with a lawn mower. Raspberry is same family as Blackberry only difference pull a raspberry stems stays on the plant, pull a blackberry stem stays on the berry. I rooted a lot of plants and sold them several times. Cut off a 12" long new cane, put rooting powder on the cut, put cane in 6" of potting soil in December. Cuttings grow roots over the winter. Keep new plants in pots all summer our 100° temperature is too hot for new plants. I plant new plants in Sept they are extremely hardy very hard to kill, lawn mower makes it easy. The only thing these plants don't like is hard clay soil.