WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

What I did today in the garden? Just watched how it rained.

 

@Saliha, I'm pleased for you but compassion costs nothing, you might want it one day

 

Nice breeze yesterday morning but wind dropped by the afternoon and very hot and humid. Went to hardware store in the morning to buy hammerite, liquid seaweed, chicken pellets, four wooden border edgers and a few non gardening items.

In the afternoon I painted more of the boat seat, just got a tiny bit of cutting in to do today and she's finished. She looks like a new boat . I painted one of the wood border edges and hubby did the other three. Spent half an hour removing blanket weed from the pond and peering into the depths. More watering. We sat on the bench out front with coffee and welsh cakes. Came indoors to find the cat had decided to sit on the lid of the hammerite paint that I had left on the worktop in the utility room . The paint had dried onto his fur around his bum, tail and back legs, so a pair of scissors and a razor was needed to remove it - amateur dramatics from cat whilst I was doing that.

 

Hey! Who pulled the curtains? Cloudy and raining out there! Its put paid to some jobs I wanted to do but I did some late evening planting yesterday and the rain is welcome for that. Thunderstorms forecast in some areas....hopefully it will be gentle, cumulative rain today

 

Good god shiney I was still in wonderland mate

 

Lucius what a shame mate but you did quite a bit ...sorry to hear you cat had to be cut, it's not as bad as my dog running through the hall and catching his sides and part on the door frame ….spent a few hours cleaning that away...never allowed in again when painting was being down.

 

Yesterday planted more seeds:

Lettuce
Raddishes (blue and pink)
Beans
Sweet Basil
Aquilegia

And moved my 2 Brugmansia (that are being eaten to death), out the way from everything else

 

Loved being in the rain.....gentle but persistent. Sun trying to come out to play but plants look great all clean and shiney and lush
Cuttings of salvias, incl Love n Wishes, now need potting up.

 

Hubby trimmed the pyracantha hedge, too hot to clear up, do it later.

 

Watered and fed the greenhouse plants, fed and watered the Quail and Ferret, one other small job then took refuge out of the sun and 30c heat!

 

so hot today. planning on sawing down some low limbs on some trees, weeding out some stuff. might cut back my tall sedum, power wash gazebo. at least my mind thinks I will do all that. LOL. or sit on the deck with nice glass of iced tea and watch a cat sleep.

 

Hahahaha I haven't gotten around to taking any pics yet @Logan as I've been working on the pond area today...I bought some solar lights to replace the old ones...I made a bamboo water-spout and used the leftover to make a bamboo solar lantern...looks pretty good...pics to follow for sure. I dug in some plants, staked and tied back a few more ...and I broke the ban....I need more compost...Here follows a rose from yesterday, "Galway Bay"