What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Yes that's right. But they must season it first.

 

When I get back to Belgium, @NigelJ , you will have to tell me what I need to do to my two plants. The pitcher plant is thinning down now (note to self - need to remind hubby to water them!), but the honeydew hasn’t stopped growing at all....

 

I did @Snorky85.....and to pinch a quote from the dashingly handsome ( ) Baldrick from Blackadder.... I had a cunning plan!! It worked....hubs ended up doing it!!!

 

So do ours too.

 

Spent an hour or so being blown about in the garden today.

Potted on some Fuchsia Boliviana and Boliviana alba, along with some tradescantia which will be used with the bedding in the tubs.

Then braved the outside. Its not major surgery but I'm widening a border to give me more tropical planting space. The blue line is roughly where the border will extend to. Ive moved some grasses to start the changes - they are at the nearest point to the table and will take a bit of abuse with people standing on them. The grasses will have Canna brazilliensis mingled in to give a bit of height and then the deeper part of the extended border will have mainly annuals planted. Its a work in progress but this is the aim.




From the other end ….. I can still get my wheelbarrow around the palm tree

 

Its chilly today, but dry. out to leaf rake. drag big tarps to the woods.

 

Just come in after 3 hours in the garden, my ears are ringing and one really aches...boy is the wind blowing!!

Trimmed back a couple of Hydrangeas, re- homed some Crocus escapees , divided up some spent Snowdrops, did lots of dead heading of the Bellis, Primroses , Primulas , Viola and Pansies.

Gave a couple of shrubs a dose of Epsom Salts. Went on a slug hunt too.

 

I am feeling fragile today ( self inflicted )so I've only opened the Greenhouse door the sun made a rare appearance today , its far to wet to be in the garden anyway. I did prick out my pelaragoniums seedling out yesterday / friday and other seeds are germinating .

The weather for the rest of the week looks shocking so I doubt I'll be doing in the garden this week either

 

Obviously a good night @Perki !!:drunk:

 

@shiney does that mean we won't be able to have our bonfires either?

 

I wish they would ban them ,can't abide bonfires!! Get them almost daily from the allotments.
We have a really good shredder that can cope with fair size branches, but anything too big gets loaded onto the trailer and taken a bit of a distance away to a dump site.

 

Thanks for the watering advice @Logan. Now I can actually get into the greenhouse I will go and give them a water. Yesterday I went outside about 7am and started sowing the salvia viridis blue monday (which were fab last year) seeds into the jiffy cells I soaked. No more jiffy cells left, but got a bag of seedling compost, so going to go out again shortly and do some of the nicotiana seeds. They're both seeds I've saved from last year so I do hope they do ok.

Also will have a wander up to the lotty later and take my teabags and egg shells etc up to my new composter that I've put up there. I'm really pleased with it. Not only was it £4, but my neighbour gave me some fresh horse poop that I've also put in the base. I'm really trying to be more environmentally friendly this year.

Didn't get chance to do anything in the actual garden yesterday, the storm in the morning was terrible. Late afternoon in the break from the storm I managed to take the dogs out for a decent walk - poor mutts were getting cabin fever. Wind and rain are starting up again this morning. Ugh.