What jobs are we doing in the garden today 2016

I'm going to just water everything and take it easy today!

 

I need to water all of my pots today. We had a bit of rain overnight but I still need to give them a good water. I still haven't got an outside tap but I'm hoping to get one sorted out this week. It's a right palaver using the kitchen sink to fill my watering can multiple times We're getting new French doors fitted on Thursday. When they're in I'll be able to arrange my pots on the back patio a bit better. At the moment there's around 60 pots higgledy piggledy on the side patio and it looks a mess!

 

I've planted up my pots with the petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies that hubby bought back in the UK, along with the fuchsias and clematis we got here. Then watered them all in, soaked the veg bed, soaked the new trees, in between having a row with hubby. Hey ho....

 

Just wish I was nearer, and able to help...

 

Overdid it today. Planted out sweet peas and cornflowers I've grown from seed, plus a strawberry plant. Trimmed a honeysuckle. Watered all the pots and greenhouse. Removed more weeds from where I was planting. Emptied the container of primroses from by the front door and planted it up with pelargoniums. Then realised I was far too hot, slightly burned and full of rising stomach acid. Hubby is redoing our kitchen so wouldn't feel right asking for help!

 

I planted out my bush tomatoes, climbing runner beans and artichoke seedling today down the allotment. Probably a bit silly to plant them in the heat of the hottest day so far but I gave them a good soaking (we're now extremely unlikely to get a frost in London).

Also got a new hose at home and gave the whole garden a good soaking.

Doing a bit of admin now and deciding where all of the plants are going to go in our garden.

 

Not today (its raining) but the past couple of days have been spent beavering away in the heat in the garden.
Aside from the never ending Bindweed Saga, I have cast seed, with careless abandon, in a patch of border where I also relocated some Sweet Williams which have grown from a similar casting of seed last year This casting was wallflowers and Canterbury Bells
Found an old piece of trellis which Mr M tacked onto the fence and gives a small degree of "privacy" from the new build.
Planted another Virginia Creeper in its final position down behind the coop.
Planted some climbing bean and peas: some in the new border, some in patio pots (to grow up other plants), some in the bed where I was seed casting (made those ones a trellis from bamboo and garden twine). Having learned from experience, I have not planted the edible peas in the same bed/pots as the sweet peas this time

The height of delirium (for me!) was, finally, after almost two years ...

... the whirligig clothes line was cemented in Which freed up the patio umbrella stand so it can now be used for its original purpose too Happy days!! Except, that was yesterday, when it was hot and the sunshine was in full swing, and today ... it's raining

The loganberries are starting to flower and the tayberries and gooseberries are thriving.

The Triffid is growing at a rate of knots! If I remember rightly, should come into flower at the end of this month so I'll stay at the opposite end of the garden then

Earthed up my pot potato and the next day its almost as big again I'm running out of pot to earth up in!!

 

Getting well watered in now [emoji23]

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Haha, yes! I'm nervous about whether they are still there. I'm trying to be organic down the allotment without slug pellets. I'm fully expecting them all to be completely gone by the time I go down again!

 

Potted on psb,calabrese, kale, collards ready to go under the debris netting in a couple of weeks. Potted up some little fuchsia plugs from t and m. Repotted the olive tree, had to break the old pot to get it out. Cleared a load of almost finished sprouting salad leaves from polytunnel to plNt out French beans, and had a nice big salad for tea from the tips, they were nearly 4 feet tall. Put green zebra, yellow pear, gardener's delight, Alicante, Sungold tomatoes out in greenhouse. Planted out lots of lettuce and very happy to see the broadies and beetroot putting on growth after the rain.

 

Sowed my Courgettes and Cucumbers last night, no need to water the garden after yesterdays deluge!