WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

still with my coffee. Started my Blue Poppy seeds yesterday. Hope to see babies in 5 weeks. Dry outside. Later picking up limbs /branches, some raking. Burning the wood pile.
Laying out a little more mulch.

 

Sat in conservatory looking out at the sodden muddy puddle that is the back garden. A couple of the resident rat population foraging and looking quite miserable, no birds. Wishing it would stop raining so that I might actually get some work done in the garden.

 

Until the sleet started to come down, I was doing some rose bed preparation. A bit late, but better late than never!

 

Did the first of my spring seed sowings in the greenhouse today.

In the propagator:
Tomatoes - Beefmaster and Gardener's Delight.
Sweet Peppers - Kubista and Beauty Bell.
Celeriac - Asterix.

Also sowed some Early Nantes carrots in a large pot, along with some spinach 'Red Kitten' and sorrel 'Red Veined' also in large pots, for spring salad leaves.

 

Moving the chicken coop this morning, taking more wood up to the plot, possibly get my dig on if its not too wet and take some rubbish from there up to the tip.. egg and bacon sarnie with a cuppa tea first.

 

Egg & Bacon, yummy

 

put some mulch down about . earth solid. just lying down about 2 inches.

 

Finished installing replacement wooden arch - used a number of heavy duty angle brackets to fix it to one of the 2m long railway sleepers - separating the front and rear terraces - come on storm (whatever) do your best!

For the first time this year - sat in the arbour - looking out at the Clwydian Range -with a cup of tea and a home made fruit muffin - with Alfie sat next to me. Can't think of anywhere else in the world I would rather be .

 

Re vamped veg beds.

Replaced the rotting 8x1 with new treated 8x2

Before.


After



I am going to give the outside a coat of creoseal so that it matches the chicken coop an shed and then I need to empty the compost bin onto them.

Rusty