WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

@shiney they do adore their heat mate

 

Does it rain upside down in Peterborough then?

 

Lateral isn't the same as literal

 

It's been dry overnight so hopefully the ground has dried enough to get on. If so it's on with planting the raspberry canes and strawberry plants that arrived Friday, may also get shallots and onion sets planted. Then we'll see as turning damper later.

 

Morning @NigelJ sounds like you'll be busy mate and crossed it stays dry...have a cracking day mate in what you enjoy

 

I've been moving pots around the patio.

I remember one year one of my brothers asked for a "Thinking Cap" for Christmas

 

Looking good Gail.......relax! still a bit early to panic about clematis or bottle brushes. Clematis are growing here but we are 2 or 3 weeks earlier than you.
Clematis often look dead right now but from those apparently lifeless stems new growth will emerge

 

Productive day until rain stopped play. Mainly more sorting and tidying - I wish it would stay dry long enough for the patio to dry out so I can give it a good sweep before powerwashing it in a couple of weeks time. Also painted and erected my birthday present from my parents; my dad built me a staged planter, which they dropped off flatpack last week.



Current plan is to add a lavender and maybe a strawberry to the bottom tier, keep the middle one for herbs and use the top one for lettuce/other leafy veg.

 

Sown 150 cacti, 100 tobacco and a bucket of tree mallow. Got flower buds on the existing one already, has your one yet @shiney ?

 

Moved the coop around and added 2 new girls yesterday.. been back and forth keeping eye on them all day

Wall will go ahead tomorrow.. apparently! Please don't rain, snow, hail, sub zero temps..etc etc!

Bought a blackcurrant bush from BnQ (for garden not allotment), a pack of 3 hostas and a bag of 100 bulbs/corms to get stuck into this week. Also going to get sowing for the allotment.. spring is very near and I'm feeling the rush all of a sudden

 

It’s been a lovely day today. My total gardening consisted of taking a bag of compost and a tub of screenwash out of my car and putting them in the shed. Apart from that I’ve been working (not a bad thing) and decorating in the interim gaps.

On my daily garden inspection I noticed this:


I don’t remember putting these daffodils here. They have clearly been moved because the compost is fresh. It seems strange how they are in a straight line and the compost is in the wrong place. Perhaps I did it in my sleep.



G.

Ps While I have this aspect on show, just in the corner of the cage is where I’m considering growing a catnip box. I could bury the box in the bark chippings for tidiness.

G.