What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

@Jasmine star I only spend two to three hours working out there at a time. Arthritis won't allow me to do more, sadly. I'd spend all day working in the garden if I could.

Horses are generally calm and friendly animals. Perhaps it's their size that frightens you. The four here are semi wild, one of which is a Shetland pony. Gaining their confidence to come to the fence has taken a while and only one will let me stroke it as yet. Now they will stand and watch when I'm working and nicker from time to time until I give them some attention. Their appearance is almost instant now when they hear the lawnmower and they'll stand and wait for me to put the grass cuttings over the fence for them to eat.

@Perki any rain we've had here for the last three weeks has been light showers and barely made the ground wet. June and July were wet but April and May were glorious - as you say, summer came early. Most of August has been Autumnal and with clear skies we could have a frost here tonight.

 

Its been cold the last few nights heavy dew on the grass central heating coming on, according to the weather forecast its was 0'c in Northern Ireland the other night.

Best thing to do @ARMANDII let someone else do those kind of jobs especially on ladders, better to part with a bit of cash than a injury.

 

Good morning all light cloud and light wind temp 10 to 18c
Precipitation 3%
Sunrise 6.20
Sunset 19.54

 

That is so lovely @Sheal What a dream!

Yesterday I did a bit of rearranging plants in the new front border and weeding and edging. Still got the big cosmos borders that sre flowrring but I'm getting ready to pull them out as I've had enough of them now

i pulled out all the nicotiana from the front pots and troughs, did a bit of swapping about of plants then planted tulips, daffs and crocuses in the pots&troughs and replanted on top with cyclamen, cinnaria?(the silvery plant), pansys and black violas. Looking much neater now.

I went into Aldi yesterday and ended up leaving with a telescopic chainsaw! Going to prune the sites boundary hedge opposite our front garden which is now blocking the sunsets. My Farmer neighbour who Is on the other side is Very pleased as shes sick of the height of it (our so called management company hasnt sorted out any hedge trimming).

 

Oh..mine are still going, would you say I should harvest them now if they wont do much in autumn? I assumed they still keep going for a while longer.

Thanks
Tink

 

Watered and tidied the pots out front, one inherited rose not looking too well, snipped a few bits off (must remember to read the old rose expert book I got from eBay), finally sowed some winter flowering pansy seeds, potted on some strawberry runners received from SIL at the weekend, split up a dying fuchsia that the sun got to during the heatwave, not sure if I have a couple of pots of roots and a couple of pots of weeds being nurtured in the greenhouse now, will have to wait and see.

Cucumbers didn’t like the recent cold snap and strong winds, but moved them into the sun and they seem happier today, picked more tomatoes and radish. Not sure last weeks rescue of the french beans has worked, shoots still going up and some new leaf coming through, but doubt they’ll get to flowering stage. Won’t pull them out just yet though as it’s supposed to be warming up at the weekend.

Cut back most herbs, chives, parsley, coriander, mint, marjoram and basil. Now watching the beautiful flowers just starting to open on the garlic chives I showed last year

 

I planted some half price plants I bought from Homebase and then went to look at hedging both locally and online to get ideas for the bottom of the garden when the new fence is put up next month. I'm thinking hawthorn and beech, both native, they grow reasonably quickly and the birds love them. Because the hedge is not seen from the house I don't want to spend a fortune on larger plants so I'm going small and bare rooted. Maybe Diss auction

 

Thanks @shiney I’ve just checked and the big ones don’t say whether they stay green, both say harvest July to October so I’ll hold off for a while yet.
Tink.

 

That's great, but here they don't grow much more and mine were covered in greenfly so i got rid of them. I usually over winter them but I'm starting again in January.

 

That's the astronomical calendar.
I mean the meteorological calendar, autumn is 1st of September ending on the 30 th of November. The seasons are defined as spring ( March, April, May. Summer is june,July, August autumn is September, October, November and winter is December, January and February.

 

I wondered where this went, put it in the wrong place.