What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

Must get out and do some watering this morning. The rain we had been promised never materialised.

Have been tidying up the borders and cut back the achillea which had gone from a lovely pink to a grotty brown. Also been dead heading echinaceas (I've got far too many). Emptied a few of the pots against the front of the house ready for bulbs and more winter planting to go in. Not decided yet but might keep it as a mix of white and black tones.

I think I may take out the nicotiana today - it's just absolutely huge and looking a bit ugly now. I've already saved a load seeds from them.

Firstly though - time for a cuppa and feed the fish and a wander round in my dressing gown.

 

As my newly discovered plant this year........You (me) can never have to many Echinaceas ,but of course like everything they don’t last forever.

 

I did my watering last night. I didn't want to take a chance. Beautiful blue sky here today.

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raining here surprise surprise , just been in gh and potted on some wallflowers and foxgloves. Garden looking after itself now but for deadheading feeding and picking plants back up off the floor .

 

Lovely day after a damp night

Spent much of the morning consoling a neighbour .....her husband died this morning. He was a fixture here, I thought. A strong man in his day but increasingly ....embarrassingly for him I think .....he needed my help for various tasks. A character in the area. Sad loss.

Will get an idea later of size of new pond to put in. A cuppa in hand ....poss a lager....will help with the inspiration (after all, it will be the most beautiful pond in the world)

 

Cut off the remaining tomato foliage. Fully expect green toms to fruit within 2 weeks. Removing foliage gradually during the mid to late summer is something I will continue with now and recommend it.

Next year I will grow GD, Sweet Petite and Sweet Million as the sweetest cherries.....unless someone can suggest better!?

 

Sorry to hear about the neighbours husband @Verdun .

Lawns cut and edged,cut back and tied in my Pauls Himalayan musk Rambler,tidied the green house,removed some of the leaves from the toms,sown more lettuce,cut back the spent Raspberry canes and tied in the new,watered and mulched.

 

Had a trip to two garden centres today. Bought some bulbs and a few heathers and a couple of trays of violas for the front pots. Came back, it starting pouring down and was really windy. Suns come out and just managed to do all the pots at the front. Looking nice and neat again. It's starting to feel very autumnal out there.

 

We went away for an elongated bank holiday weekend to Amsterdam, where the street-temperature was 37 degrees at one point , which sadly curtailed my plans to visit the botanical garden there. Luckily a reliable friend was on cat/chicken-feeding and watering duty so the garden hasn't suffered too much. The only real casualty sadly looks like it might be my little monkey puzzle tree, which is suddenly looking very pale and droopy It's only a foot or so tall but it's been growing amazingly for the last 12 months so I'm hoping some TLC will pull it back...

 

I have michaelmas daisies which i give the Chelsea chop but i was a few weeks late doing it. It stops them from getting too tall and makes the flowering later, which is some late flowers for the bees.

 

My condolences to your neighbour @Verdun.

Managed to get half of my Dad's garden weeded and dead headed. The bin men came while I was there so I had a lovely empty bin all to myself!!

Had a few jobs inside to do as well so will do the other half of the garden next time.

I noticed a lot of Peony seed heads...are they easy to germinate and grow? I have a feeling I heard somewhere that they are slow to get going.