What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

A lovely, lovely day. I managed to get The Teenager first to join a project to clear the garage, we found odd bits of family treasures and a spider the size of a healthy cow Anyone who has seen the 80s film Arachnofobia knows what I'm talking about.

Anyways, the garage now has enough room to park a car. As we don't have one, I'm happy to say that the lawnmover fits in in any angle I choose.

The next step of Teenager involvement was to hand her the shears and giving the task of trimming the hedge. (House facing, obviously as there is no way to convince a Teenager to do anything in a place where anyone could see her or comment on the possibility of any potential bingo wings. )

This must be running in the genes, The Teenager did a very, very good job on the hedge. Neat and straight. Her forearms will be screaming tomorrow.

It's so nice to see the baby The Teenager getting involved in not just the exiting bits (seed sowing and projects etc) but just the everyday maintenance bits of gardening.

 

Mowed the lawn first time in a week its recovering well after verti-cutting it last week a good feed always helps.
Lifted the spuds today Yulkon gold are something like that , bit disappointed with the yield were hoping a more but probably to many planted in the veg box , got a full builders bucket.
I've had to water the pots / barrels etc today can't remember the last time I watered them except for feeding must of been mid July .

I am almost forgot my seeds are germinating I sowed it still bring a smile

 

Mowed the back lawn and cut back a few plants that had flowered, like the lilies and gladioli,
filled the green bin,

We weren't impressed with the four "tree roses" we bought at the beginning of last year, they've had two summers to earn their place, but have failed, so I binned them. This freed up four green ceramic pots. We'll get some David Austin roses later on in the year, possibly bare root ones. We had a look through their website, but I've sent off for a catalogue, my wife doesn't like looking at pictures on my laptop.
Tightenen the wires that hold back the "bamboo" forest along the fence at the bottom of the garden. Without the wires, it'd fall over....well fall forward a bit.

I need to re-make the two decorative plaques I cut out of plywood with a jigsaw which hide the two ugly looking coach bolts that secure the pergola to the two support posts. They're about ten years old and the laminations are opening and they have dried out and are a bit brittle. I'll get some more wood next week.



Although it doesn't need it, I'll give the tea-house another coat of Dulux Trade Ultimate Woodstain. It says it's guaranteed for ten years, what's more importaant to me is that it's solvent based. There's a Dulux centre near me, so I'll get some on the way home from golf on Monday, it's about £50 for 2.5ltrs, but worth it.
I'll give the pergolas a go too, but not 'til later when the leaves have fallen.

Tomorrow it'll be a bit of weeding and spray the roses, I've noticed some green fly on one or two, but nothing serious, I need to cut the front lawn and tidy the shed.
Then clean the car, my golf clubs and golf shoes andI'll be up to date.

 

I trimmed the edge of my lawn. My edging shears are old and rusty so I got down and I used a pair of scissors. Its the first time this summer that I've actually been able to see how my plants are supposed to look. Everything is doing better than I thought. One day in the future I intend to create a hard edge to the lawn. That's another job on my never ending jobs to do list.


I did the same thing at the front.

G.

 

Far too hot here again. After tea I managed to get out and do some watering. I have to be honest, I feel ashamed of my garden as it presently is. Me a rosarin, even I can't see my climbers and ramblers. Jasmine that once was mine is fighting hard to re-establish itself back in my garden. It's wiry stems have grown though the wavey edged fence panels and through the trellis, added to this the ordinary lonicera from downstais plus bindweed and snowberry have all entangled themselves with my roses. I fear that if and when I eventually manage to expose the roses, that they will bear evidence of the struggle they 've had to get through. Closer to the house, I have a Thuja plicata. Beautiful tree, but suddenly it also has gone mad. It has engaged itself to Rosa Felicia, (How romantic). It has also attracted the attention of the super-fast growing Boston Ivy. Leaving the house and venturing into the garden, a well shaped limb of the latter, gently arches over the pathway. This creates that bit of mystery and frame the path ahead for any photos. Sadly the tree is too much for me to give it a short back and sides, so I will probably reduce it a great deal.

Now overloading the trellis ontop of the other side fence, is a Lonicera, I haven't identified as yet. I obtained a cutting, must be 25-30 yrs ago. I gave up waiting for it to flower, tehn about six years ago it did flower, very intoxicating fragrance, but due to my own lack of attending it. It now forms an unsightly giant birdsnest looking bundle up in the air, plus it has married up with Rosa Seagull. YES my garden is full of love and romance. Even the plants are at it! Sadly this corner of the garden is now far over shaded and ground space is going waste. My shrubs are all grown out of proportion and I envisage waiting a season or two before much blossom rewards me for my hard work. Yes for me now, this will be hard work. Thankfully I have a shredder and so much of what is cut down will be mixed with spent compost from the GH and raked up conifer needles, mixed and some bonemeal added and hey ho, it will add a few more inched in height to my garden

 

Mowing the grass, can't call it a lawn, still some flowers and tiny tomatoes need to be removed to help along the many many green ones, hope it works then a sit in the sun with a beer in the afternoon if it isn't too hot

 

@ARMANDII No pictures of the pond to show us?

 

@ARMANDII How often do you see your cats? Do they just appear from the undergrowth once in a while?

G.

 

I chucked out my edging shears years ago.

I use a Flymo strimmer, changing it from the horizontal position to the vertical.

As long as you can draw a straight line with it, you get a nice clean finish.

 

Thanks @ARMANDII, maybe one day. All this Photo Bucket and other stuff loses me. Any photos I take are either on my laptop or a SD card, often both.
When I had my business, accounts were all handwritten in books, tried my PC but as soon as I flipped the page I didn't know where it went. I know I'm prehistoric but I know where things are.....mostly.....sometimes. ish.