What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

@Linz good work to do by yourself. I agree with @Verdun the curves of the borders should be a slight curve easy for the mower.

 

Didn't do a lot, just a bit of wisteria pruning and gave the pots a feed after all the recent rain.
I'm mowing the lawn twice weekly now. But as we're promised escalating temperatures over the next week, I'm gong to take the cutting height up a notch on my Flymo.

 

Cut niece’s lawn earlier, planted salvia patens Cambridge (like the pale blue patens) and picked more strawberries...prolific cropping over past couple of weeks.
Watered plants in gh, conservatory and containers

 

I finally got around to tidying up the area under the swing. It's still a work in progress but it is now at least a usable space. I have bought 4 long spikes which I intend to use to anchor the swing in place. As long as I leave a space on the ground for footfall there is no reason why I can't use the rest of the space for planting.

The area now looks like this.

At least now I can say that all aspects of the garden visible from the patio are looking respectable

G.

 

And you can have fun on that slide Gary!

 

Hot and humid yesterday. Cut back some of the grass beside the pond by hand to expose the path. Pulled out a few unwanted weeds. Removed two pond pots that have apparently given up. One is Starwort or was as no sign of it in the pot. Other one is Mares Grass ??, can't remember name exactly, but should be emerald green grass. It's turned greyish brown colour. Possibly it's too deep in the pond, although I remember the label did say 18 inches planting depth. Pulled out a bit more of the oxygenating weed and removed Poppy leaves from water surface. Purple Centaurea by the pond is looking very tatty, so tidied it up a little - last year I cut it right down after it had flowered and it re grew and flowered again, so I will do that later on.

Retied my Poppy fortifications and tied up two more Poppy plants that have been blown over in wind. Cut off flower heads on short leaved Docks. There are so many of them that digging them out or blasting with weed killer is not an option, so hoping to control them a bit by preventing seeds being distributed around the garden . Pulled out more Cleavers.

Cleaned out one of the houses ( the house that had the dead hog and bees nest that I destroyed as I didn't know it was there ). There were still a few Bees that were in the house afterwards so I left the it alone. They've gone now, so house has fresh hay ready for .

Spent rest of afternoon on patio and finished by Kursk book. Rescued a Ladybird that I found swimming in the water fountain.

 

Don’t think I’ll get much done today.... last night it was so hot and humid (28 degrees at midnight, “cooling” down to 21 degrees at 7am this morning) that I didn’t get much sleep.

The temperature soon climbed to 30 degrees, but I managed to trim the tall grass that’s grown around the rotted down tree stump. We have snowdrops, crocuses and daffy there in the spring, so it doesn’t get mown. Also the “shoulders” of the tree stump roots are still there, even though the foot-high stump imploded a couple of years ago. Topped up the pieces of remaining wood with some old logs from the wood store. I’ve been advised that it’s beneficial to have a woodpile in the sun, as well as the shade, especially for our midwife toads...

Then onto trimming the hardy geraniums that were completely blocking the path around the side of the house. We need to be able to get to our wine cellar!!

We’re now at a very humid 34 degrees, so I’ve retreated indoors for the rest of the day!

 

Back home now.....heat is building
Nothing pressing in the garden but I’m sure I will see something to do.
Prob a cool off in the sea if it stays like this Hopefully max temps over the next few days won’t be more than 27
Just read 40 degrees is expected in some parts of Europe....hope you don’t get as hot as that Sian

 

Not doing anything in the garden, it's raining and not going to stop

 

I beat the rain here but humid as hell. One lawn cut and some nice edging completed. Home for a cup of tea.

 

I didn't beat the rain got wet through this morning . Got some wallflowers to prick out but the GH a tip at the moment pots - labels etc chucked everywhere .

 

Like @shiney said mainly deadheading, tying back, weeding the Triffids that have suddenly appeared and generally keeping on top of things. Picked some more strawberries.
Had lunch outside.

Off to check over my Dad's garden now.

Thankfully no more rain today, still very close outside.

 

I was looking forward to having a good burn today but my neighbour put his washing out.

 

Hi,

If you lived here john558 your neighbour wouldn't be putting washing out and you wouldn't be lighting a fire; my cloud Blackie would cancel both. the BBC weather forecasters are useless saying showers for today only because they can't spell continuous. My theme song is "Why does it always rain on me".

Kind regards, Colin.