What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

They will be cutting Barley or oil seed rape, I wouldn't have thought that they will using a lorry in the fields to run long side a combine as the ground is to soft if they do it will be a six wheeler as it will be best for that sort of job but as tractors and trailors have got bigger and faster it will be quicker with tractor, but if the corn is going straight to millers/brewers then it would have to be on lorrys as t & t's are not aloud at mills and mills don't take in corn after 3pm and all loads will have to be booked in the day before
As harvesting is up together some other farmer will help out neighbours if they have nowt to do or a contractor will put in 2/3 combines to get job done then move to another farm or sometimes will pull out one combine to move to another farm when corn is ready, it's all about keeping them combines moving and farmers happy
one combine you may have 3 t & t's running but that depends on how far away field to farm is how big the combine is etc
T & T's now can gross weigh at 31.00 ton's ( nearly the weight of an 8 wheeler 32.00 tons) they're also faster, now tractor's speed is 25mph from 20mph but a tractor can do 30-35-40 mph some will be breaking the law over 25mph unless they run fast track tractors

 

Picked tomatoes again early this morning. Masses still to come.
More foliage removed too...prob half way up the plants
Runner beans picked too

Overnight/early morning sea mists nicely watered the garden but soon cleared to blue skies. Our summer goes on

 

I’ve taken the spent flowering stems off some lychnis, some campanula and a dianthus.

Also turned the “adding-to” compost bay into the middle bay, disturbing a couple of slow worms in the process...

 

Potted on 58 wallflowers 2 in each container and did some watering and weeding.

 

58 Logan? Making me feel tired
Ever grown stocks?

A friend of mine grows stocks.....she always gives me a few. The scent from late winter is wonderful

 

It's not often we get a combination of dry weather without wind but today was a bonus. I took the opportunity of a second bout tackling the bracken in the garden. A second spraying so hopefully that will finish it off....for this year anyway.

 

Managed to get the quince back up with just a few cuts along the way. Pics show how it should have been done from the start as I tightened up to bring it level and tight.
I still can’t believe the chap tried to hammer nails in the mortar.
While my companion thought the quince was heavy hence the fall I showed her why it fell and I’ll replace the next support next week.
Also fixed her Hozelock reel that had blown throw the plastic connector for the grand price of £7.
Her poor reel mower can’t cope with the lawn, she called me some names as it’s too dense. It’s either the wrong colour or too dense
I’m quite impressed with the new fertiliser I’m trying out.

 

Busy elsewhere this morning but hope, interruptions not withstanding, I can get lawns cut and some dead heading. Weather too....very overcast and showers possible

 

Try using perlite 2nd bassoon
Half and half mpc and perlite

Please, what is the difference between perlite and vermiculite? Could I do rose cuttings in vermiculite mixed with mpc?

 

We sat by the pond and fed the fish, whilst we had our morning coffee.

Hubby went up the ladder to get half a trug full of moss out of our french box guttering. That should stop the standing water outside our bedroom window.

Then we gathered up a trug full of windfall apples, dodging the drunken wasps as we did so....