What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Given my potato bed a good do with
Sown Celeriac and Toms in the Greenhouse...that's inbetween heavy showers but when the sun came out it was pigging magic..

 

Quick trip out to a garden planter factory shop this morning. Bought some large planters and some smaller planters. Paid and the chap said that there were some more planters that were damaged that I could take. I didn't need asking twice.
Well worth a visit if you are local - Naylor Factory Shop at Cawthorne.

Planted my colocasias this afternoon and put them in the bathroom to kick them into life early.

Then found space in two propagators and filled them with Ptilotus Exaltus Joey Pink Mulla Mulla, sweet peppers and Ipomoea Lobata seeds. Let the growing season commence.

Edit : Wife took a pic when they were taken out of the car. Square planters £3, low planters £9, straight terracotta £15 and curved terracotta £20 each

 

Very attractive and reasonably priced, you did well there!

Nick

 

Finally the weather agreed and I was able to spend a full day outabouts. It wasn't snowing at least.

Cleared the spent stems of the perennial plants, feeling slightly guilty as my Finnish Nana always told me to leave them until May to protect the young shoots from the unpredictable spring weather. I did challenge the situation by pointing out that surely exposed, dark soil will heat up better than one covered by a layer of dead stems, but obviously Nana was The Boss. So April in Finland, March in the UK .

Started on Spring Project of making a good sized raised bed to grow some eadibles on the patio. We had this quite large metal cage for our Degus standing in the garage, so I had a brilliant idea of turning it into a large raised bed.

After some hours of wrestling the front and internal bits out of the main frame, with several pricks from the rusty bits (and a brief wondering if the latest Tetanus booster was on this Millennium), weaving the bottom in with metal garden wire ah voila, here's my new raised bed!

I lined the sides with some sturdy plastic (free from my blowaway greenhouse that did just that, and after complaining the company sent me a new one. The New Blowaway is fine with duck tape reinforcement and the old one is providing an endless supply of building material. ) with a plan to line the bottom with surplus root membrane I have.

After completing that, with Mr Blackbird singing his heart out on me, I realised that actually I have a makeshift cold frame. If makeshifts come in degrees, mine is very near the top

But there it is, with the remaining bit of plastic on top and spring onions sown in pots.

Hello Spring

 

Exciting things have been happening in the front garden. Fencing is going up!


Got the jet washer out yesterday afternoon and cleaned the walls too


I find jet washing so satisfying.

 

That looks much better Snorky.

 

I've finished the ground work. I can't do any more until I buy the bark chippings. Hopefully that will be at some point this week.

It must be my lucky day. After measuring carefully and then cutting my weed suppression fabric in the wrong place, I discovered that the 2 piece I had cut, between them, fitted the space perfectly. I was chuffed to bits. Especially as that was the end of the roll.

Later in the day I was throwing away some junk from the shed and I found this on the thrown away pile.

I have no idea how it got there. I guess at some point it had been thrown out and the pot reused.

G.

 

Well today is the day..finally sorting out the greenhouse and doing a lot of chucking out as I go. Sprucing it up before continuing with the seed sowing as it's getting a tad crowded indoors now!!

 

That is A Cat, Gary. A sort of a feline thing. And the plant on the right is a lovely Hellebore, pot it up somewhere, the colour is just lovely.

 

The forecast rain didn’t materialise, apart from a 5 min hailstorm, so I managed to do the first grass cut of the year, plus a trug-full of weeds from the drive and soak-away gravel.

Definitely in need of that cuppa!

 

Nope we've got it!!! And the day started off so promising too.

Well half the greenhouse looks tidier , trouble is the other side has now got a double lot of mess!!!

Sorted out lots of cell trays and pots. Sadly found a load more unnamed bulbs . So more pot luck planting will have to be done.

 

Braced the terrible weather and got bed 3 out of 4 sieved at the allotment, with half a bucket of potatoes coming out in the process. Just about had time to have a test run putting the Wilko frame I bought together, we'll see how it survives out in the elements before potentially getting another.