What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

I did a bit today.
Checked the front garden, the azaleas have plenty of flower buds on them.

This one is already out. Suprisingly, as it gets hardly any sun at all.
That's the wire mesh and posts fence I made thirty years ago, that separates our garden from next door's. I think the low post and panel ones between adjoining gardens look ugly. But they are OK when they separate the two drives on the other side.

Decided to put out the other two hedgehog houses, despite there being no activity as yet.

I'm pretty sure there's one in this house under the azaleas.

If there's no sign of it by the middle of next month, I'll be tempted to check it out.

Both feeding stations have had food in them for a couple of weeks. Once the feeding stations get used, it would be better not to make new houses suddenly appear. The houses may interest some younger visiting hedgehogs.

There's a brick on this one to stop a fox which may visit our garden trying to get the roof off. A bit of wire tied between two screws at the back will also keep the roof in place.

This larger house has a removable floor for cleaning, which should only be necessary once a year. It has latches that keep the roof in place.

I've taken the net off the acers, as the foliage will be too big to pass through it in less than a week. I've kept the restraining wires attached for now. I've also given it a trim.
A lot of the top branches are, "doing their own thing." It won't be until the leaves have "set" and they droop down a bit, will I know which need to be pruned off.

I've not given up yet on the grass under it. The combination of the removal of the huge tree in the garden to the left of ours which created a lot of shade and the shortened "skirt" of the acer, should allow more light under it.

I've planted out the three new clematis and put the eight new phlox in the rockery.
Flower buds on the trailing branches of the wisteria on the pergola next to the garage.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Cleaned out all of my nest boxes. Although they were much cleaner than they used to be when house sparrows could use them.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Got a lot of 12oz paper cups arrived yesterday, so drilled holes in the bottom of a few and potted up some basil seedlings, a nice gentle job, there's lots wants doing, I've got a tray of cabbage to plant out for a start, but I'm taking it easy on doing vigorous or bending jobs until my leg feels better.

 

[gary350]

Wife wanted some garden carrots for dinner tomorrow so I pulled up 3 ft of a 120 ft row then cleaned them and weighed them, 1½ lbs.

 

[Sean Regan]

I won't be doing much today, as I have chores and shopping on my "to do list."

I've ordered some dahlia tubers on eBay.

I'm going to remove the hebes in the troughs either side of the tea-house steps. Two of them look a bit sickly. I might find a home for the other two in the back border.

I'll put four dahlias in the troughs.

We did have dahlias in the original troughs we had there, over a decade ago.

 

[Sean Regan]

I've also ordered a couple of hydrangeas. I will have a couple of spare Apta glazed pots for them. But I will put them in plastic pots, that will fit neatly inside them.
They can sit on the patio steps, up against the side French windows.

 

[gary350]

I dug up another 3 lbs. of carrots today soil is very hard to dig. We have 7 days of rain in the forecast I might need to dig up all the carrots in about 10 days when soil is softer. Everything is so dry the whole state of TN has a burn band. Wife cooked carrots with a roast. I hope we get 15" of rain.

 

[Tundra20]

I dug up another 3 lbs. of carrots today soil is very hard to dig. We have 7 days of rain in the forecast I might need to dig up all the carrots in about 10 days when soil is softer. Everything is so dry the whole state of TN has a burn band. Wife cooked carrots with a roast. I hope we get 15" of rain.

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arkansas finally got some rain should be headed to ya

 

[Tundra20]

finally got climatis started a planter for it
u can see the tops of some of the onions i have they are doin well

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Rained some last night. So today, just general cleaning up, never ending.

 

[Sean Regan]

I decided I'd "attack" this area today under the acer in front of the tea-house.

I had to do some shopping this morning, so I made an extra eight-mile round trip to the "local" garden centre, for a couple of rolls of turf.

"We don't sell turf."

"You mean you don't sell turf any more, because you did sell it, a year ago."

So I had to go to B&Q near the Trafford Centre.

They had two half-pallets of rolls of turf outside, that was reduced to half price. I guess it'd been there for at least a week. But I managed to drag out a couple of rolls at the bottom, which were still a bit damp. I'd brought an old curtain with me to in which to wrap them, so I didn't get soil in the boot of my car.

They didn't look too bad.

I gave them a brush.

The turned them over and scarified the backs with my fine tyne lawn rake.

Prepared the area.

Laid the turf, then spread a mixture of top-soil and grass seed along the joints.

Hammered it down with a bit of 3" x 2" and my lump hammer.

Replaced the acer training wires.

Gave it a good watering.

I'm hopeful, that it will take, but it will get a feed tomorrow and daily check for a few weeks. If it doesn't, I'm only out, six and a half quid.

I've a few bits left over that will do for patching in a few areas. But that can wait until tomorrow as it started to rain.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

If it doesn't, I'm only out, six and a half quid.

And a round trip.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Planted sweetcorn seed. There are regular arrivals of hyacinths in bowls and I added the last lot that had finished flowering to the bed beside the path where I have been planting them for the last few years, and weeded the bed. I used the kneeler my daughter gave me, so no bending, and it was a lovely sunny afternoon with great wafts of scent from the ones from previous years, a very pleasant job. Apart from watering the greenhouse that was about it, it's okay, I used the small watering can and went back and forth, no heavy lifting.

 

[Sean Regan]

Today, I'll finish off patching areas of lawn with the bits of turf I've got left over from yesterday. Then give the mossy bits a dose of iron sulphate.
I might sort out some pots ready for the dahlias and hydrangeas I have on order.
But I'll wait until it warms up a bit, it's only +10c. But the sun's coming out.

I remembered to change the clocks last night, including the oven and the central heating. I got in my new car this morning and was a bit out-faced, trying to find how to do it without the handbook. Then I noticed, that the car had already changed the time on the clock, "all by itself."

 

[Tundra20]

cut more lettuce and beet leaves we are having some nice temps
also planted bananna jalapeno peppers and tomatos in hoophouse im sure we will have a cool snap and they all should b just fine