What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

Hi,

Many thanks ARMANDII; the suits still drying out from last time I used it.

What's happening; it hasn't rained for five minutes?

Below is my automatic shoe wash.

Kind regards, Colin.



The pathway to the bungalow side at low tide.

 

Not much done but for watching it rain , it finally did stop around 1-2pm .

Weather forecast is for it to freeze for the next 3 nights so the Ensete maurlii had to be lifted out of its pot , I snapped my towel trying to cut / lever it out of its pot, its in the kitchen now in a bucket draining excess water out. Think I'll be very busy packing away the dahlias and tidying up over the next few weeks. Need to take in tender plant from the GH into the house tomorrow and take some cutting of saliva and fuchsia.

 

Well, last night I managed to get home after an 11 hr drive - normally 8 hrs without torrential rain and accidents.

Today we tried to sort the garden. I was doing weeding/clearing/pruning whilst hubby cut the grass... until the wheel alignment failed, dropping three of the wheels from highest to lowest setting, mid cut.

So, gardening curtailed, as we loaded the mower into the car and drove to the DIY shop for a repair, as it is less than 4 yrs into the 5yr guarantee. We will have to wait 4-5 weeks for it to be fixed.

Did get a load of washing dried too, if that counts?

 

Not any today, too cold.

 

Stopped raining here. For the next few days I'm confined to my armchair and bed. Was released from Guys late Friday afternoon. Still a lot of pain. The hospitals try and get you out and home asap.

 

Total wash out yesterday meant that I did very little in the garden. Potted on 5 Ensete ventricosum - first time Ive had Ensete seed germinate. Potted on some of the echeveria that I grew from seed and that was about it.

Today I've sealed the bottom doors of the polytunnel and one of the top doors as they are really draughty with the gaps around the frames. Cut down the chillies - there was plenty more fruit to ripen but I need the space for tender plants. Ive moved another 10 or so plants onto the tunnel and will move more in after Ive filled the agave planter with gravel.

 

Cleared out the GH of tomato plants and cues and gave it a good wash down...Dead headed the Cosmos and Roses..Need to rake the leaves up off the lawns but far to wet to be trampling on the them.Filled the bird feeders up and gave the chook run and coop a 'good do'...Now I'm sat outside enjoying this glorious sunshine,it's a tad nippy but nowt a woolly pully won't fix..

 

@Mike Allen i hope that everything went well and that you'll be out of pain soon.