WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

A few days work sees us with two new flower beds and the garden looking a lot more complete with the sleepers wrapping around the end of the garden, plus the added benefit of hiding a good 30 feet of the concrete base for the fence.




In the space of a month or so, what was the dumping ground for various pots and the garden furniture has a greenhouse and flower bed...and the garden furniture.



Now to decide what is going in them!

 

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@martin-f Having removed your tree stump, you will appreciate how much effort it took to move this little bit of wood to help make my stumpery

It has a natural 'pool' in the centre which makes a good bird bath, and is now starting to look a bit more established after a year.... (must get the camera out again)

 

Potted up cabbage and beans with my daughter and sowed some foxglove seeds.

Rusty

 

It looks nice Tetters yes not easy to move it was full of water that didn't help.

 

Gardening wise I only ended up putting some more grit around my hostas and putting the garden waste bin out for collection today!! Weather's been miserable again. Forecast nice for the week ahead though.

Picked some cracking rhubarb from the lotty this evening and just made three jars of rhubarb and ginger jam....much better than the one I made last week. Also made a loaf of bread in my bread maker so might have a slice of bread and jam for supper

 

Been promising our little boy he could have a pond for the last 6 months, finally got round to digging it out this weekend, dug, lined, planted (lightly with water forget me not, Reeds and cyperus) and mulched. and for his well earned pocket money he decided to buy quite possibly the most dreadful ‘gnome’ from Asda (3 foot high) , bought some goldfish and inherited some frogspawn! We’ve been out watching everything at least 8 times today! Love it!!

 

It looks really nice mate and thanks for showing us your hide out

 

Nice work looks good .

 

Gentle gardening today seed sowing, pricking out, potting on etc. It's been a beautiful day here but I am suffering from an unfortunate lack of ummpphh!

 

In other words Loki...mentally drained you need the to kick in

 

Don't get knocking him mate ...he looks a cheerful looking soul

 

Moley it looks great and your plants...nice job your doing there

 

Fed the lawn this morning before it started to rain. Had a good look around the plants in pots around the back of the shed, most are actively growing now and could do with planting soon, Anemone wild swan growing as well i was sure I had lost it.

Took quite a lot of plant from the house to the GH, fuchsia - pelargoriums etc. Potted on more seedling which just reminded me now I had left some in a tray of water after transplanting, Tripped over some pots while out which is no surprise because they seem to be everywhere and growing somehow . Quick slug patrol while I was out around the crown imperial fertilise, the slug wool pellets aren't repelling them enough so hand picked them off, found a lily beetle while inspecting .

 

The best thing is it’s a ‘grandmother’ and has a slight resemblance of my old man

 

After yesterday's glorious weather today I am back in two fleeces and a hat . Going to stay this way for next couple of days with 60 mph winds predicted on Tues.

Today's gardening contribution consisted of planting a pot of Mint and moving some small pots of flowers to a more sheltered place in expectation of coming weather. After that I decided I really couldn't be bothered and went to the Beach.