What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Brought all my plants out for hardening and back.
The 20 or so in the house area bit of pain, because I need to bring them down pretty narrow stairs, 2 o 3 at times to avoid damaging them.
But then I look at Shiney's 7 million plants or so to move every day. That would probably take me all day and then some, at my sluggish speed.

And speaking of slugs and similar, my sealed mini greenhouses seem to keep slugs out, but I found some tiny snails in one, taking tiny munches off my plant. I wonder if perhaps there were eggs left in some crevices. Or perhaps they manage to come in when they are tiny and then grow.. Anyway, I gave them the boot and sealed it all back.

Most plants seem to have taken well to the trip outdoor, despite a strong wind.
But looking at the forecast, temperatures will go up, peaking at 23C next Saturday, and then they are supposed to suddendly drop 13 degrees??
I do not think my tomatoes will like 3C at night at all.
But I need to plant them out, they are getting enormous and flowering already.
I guess I will cover them up at night when it drops too much.
Also, I splurged on nematodes for the slugs, I hope that will give my courgettes, squashes and punpkins an headstart at least.

Not sure if anybody here shops at Lidl, and I never tried thair compost, but they were selling 40 liters bags for £2. Also some small fruit trees for little money, tomato wire and little clamps.

 

Are they fruiting already?
Mine are growing but I never see any berries until July or later.

 

Cut in the paths through the front garden yesterday morning. It took almost an hour, although the grass wasn't particularly thick or long. Raked up most of the grass for the compost bins. Gave the Ribes by the boat seat a very light trim, just enough the get to the seat. Yanked lots and lots of blanket weed out of the pond.

Day before yesterday I checked the house by the boat seat and it appeared empty. Yesterday I decided to clean it out. However, I found it was occupied - felt bad for disturbing . I did remove the largest tick I've ever seen from the entrance tunnel in the house. It was lying in wait for to wake up and come out, so it could reattach itself. It was dealt with swiftly. One of my other houses that I cleaned out recently I moved down to the boat seat area.

Painted final coat on one of the patio walls and put three coats of paint onto the raised flower container on the patio. Only two sides are visible so didn't take long.

Zeroed it for rest of afternoon.

 

No gardening while it is raining!
@luciusmaximus due to the lock down and continuing shut down of the country we had to cancel our trip to Anglesey at the end of June. We will try and arrange it again for next year, we were so looking forward to going there.

 

So far this morning it's been mostly running around the garden like a mad woman possessed ( much to the amusement of onlookers) trying to scare of a group off Magpies from raiding every nest in the garden!! All the parent birds are going frantic....poor things.
And yes, I do know that Magpies have to feed their young too. But not from my feathered friends nests..... and.... they didn't book a shopping slot either.

 

I made a mistake when ordering Pots from Asda, some have sprouted, so I've dug a bed out ready to plant these in..........Ok I know you shouldn't do this, but I'm not going to waste them.

After I sat in my little Summer House drinking Coffee, cutting my nails and watching an Ant.

 

@ARMANDII - I have tons of labels from plants I have killed
I buy 'magic sponge' from Poundland - it's a melamine sponge. Just a bit of water on it, and one swipe takes the writing off. But I use pencil. It's a bit slower with 'indelible' pen, but still works

 

I came home from work and stared at the garden......it's hard work planning what I should be doing!

 

Thank you! I feel a bit silly now as it's so obvious....I've never seen one so small!

 

A piece of paper towel with Isopropyl Alcohol, also cslled rubbing alcohol over here, a quick rub and gone!