What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

I wonder if creating a make shift bath to dip the wood in would be any easier?

 

Well I might have thought about it if I had one. Some silly fool built my house with two showers and no bath.

 

Well, it is not exactly a masterpiece of engineering, or a Shiney Frame (TM), but the beans should be happy enough

 

I also have just trimmed back wallflowers, rather than pulling up......as suggested by my window cleaner who was horrified I was pulling up. They look nice and bushy so far.

 

Checked up on everything today with very positive results! Sprayed a few more aphids off my toms and planted the first bed of carrots. I'll do another in a week and the last in a fortnight to stagger it a bit.

 

Yesterday I had a lovely day, as I drove over to see a friend about 20km away who had an Angelica plant she wanted to give away. I should have known - I now have two large Angelica plants, oh, and a rooted twisted willow stem. The great bit was, we sat outside , keeping our distance, and had a cuppa and a great old chin-wag . I haven’t seen her for a couple of years, and probably 4-5 years for a sit-down-natter. My first “social” since the lockdown at the beginning of March!

Anyways, today I had two 2 foot high Angelica plants to find homes for. One has been planted at the back of the patio bed, in a large hole, back-filled with garden compost. I hope it will cope with the winds, but the foliage is already providing a lovely backdrop to the miller’s bugloss. The other has gone in a large plant-pot for now. In the autumn I plan to extend the drive bed further up the driveway still. It will be the focal plant of the extension, if my cardoon seedling continues to sulk in its pot.

The willow cutting has been potted up in a clematis pot for now, and nestled in behind the planted half-barrels, in a saucer (to make it easier to keep it well-watered). Hopefully, if it comes through the summer, I can find it a new home at the top of the garden, near the pond.

This afternoon I have umpteen chilli plants to pot on - they are desperately trying to make up for lost time with the dodgy compost earlier in the year. I will also check through my various ornamental seedlings, to see what is ready to be planted out. I think most are going to need a summer to grow on yet though, as they are still quite insubstantial. It makes you realise why plants are not “cheap as chips”!

 

Wet here a good time to clear out a shed so long overdue. Started yesterday. Came across old keyboard bought for grandchildren meany years ago. It has had a clean and it still works not touch sensitive but ok. I will end up in old friends house he is unwell.

 

Just looking and admiring. Dratted old knee problem has flared up and even walking is an ordeal. So am being an educated lady of leisure, encouraging verbally and delicately picking a flower here and there..

 

Its rained most of the day again plants are starting to grow like mad . Planted a couple more pots up in the GH think I am done now for summer pots maybe the odd little one but they will be for small plants like night stocks / pelargoniums I usually keep them in the GH. Unless I buy some more plants which rarely happens

 

My urgent task now is to erect a barrier between my garden and the drive as a marine gale is a-heading this way and a direct southerly. I did this successfully when all was tiny and now the purple pea pods are needing help.. They are promising heavy rain later. We shall see. High summer!