What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

I don't think so. There is some growing in a different part of the garden but it's not in flower yet. I will have a look tomorrow anyway. The smell is still here but fainter today as cooler and more cloud cover.

 

Spent an hour and a half digging more buttercup and couch grass out of my flower bed . There are still tiny bits of roots left in the soil, which I will have another go at tomorrow, but probably won't be able to get them all.

Mr Chaffinch is still around, working on how many decibels he can assault my ears with. Every time I sit on the patio he appears on either the wall or the hedge.

 

Send him round to my garden please, sadly I don't often see chafs or greenfinches any more.

 

There are usually four males and three females. I haven't seen the others for awhile so I'm guessing he's going to be unlucky in love but you never know. He's a very handsome chap even if he is so loud.

Have you tried offering sunflower hearts and niger seed?

 

I don't see greenfinches anymore and starlings as much.

 

Yesterday potted on 12 tomato plants and some watering.

 

Greenhouse jobs today, pricking out and potting up.

 

I don't use niger any more, but always use sunflower hearts, I think it's more the general decline of both of them, fortunately still have loads of other birds around.

 

Busy day yesterday, planted out a few hardy plants that I grew last year from seed.

Carried on preparing and in some cases planting up some of our patio pots .

Checked over all the strawberry plants that I had put in one of our cold frames..might pot them up again in some hanging baskets like I did last year , it definitely stopped them from being 'got at'

Lettuce and tomatoes are all coming on well.

Gave all the plants and seedlings in the greenhouse and cold frames a watering

Potted on all the Cosmos, and Petunias

........ and watered the garden in the evening.

 

Got the motors in the shed ... got to get an armoured cable there, and Sparky to fit wire them up ...

A don't think an expanding wax piston is going to cut it!!

 

Started the day off doing some pricking out, then started on the concrete plinths to bolt the post supports to, and just finished putting all the tenders back in the greenhouse with a frost forecast for tonight.

 

Just mowed the lawn today and went round the edge and picked up all the dead material leaves / twigs etc from the edge of the lawn , I've left a bit for the birds . Fleece some plants in the gh and brought the brugmansia / ensete in the house Frost forecast