What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Morning Woo, go easy and don't overdo it now

 

Arthritic knee has kicked in big style last few weeks so it's basically been work and home for me but started clearing out greenhouse today ready to bring in brugs and cannas, had a couple of frosty morning's this week so I thought I'd need to get the brugs in but doesn't seem so yet, also the iris reticulata I potted up beginning of October have started to sprout, I thought you pot them up in October to grow in may

 

Not been on here for a few weeks - mix of new job and a lot of sorting work on the house has meant little time for the garden and less time for talking about it Hope everyone's been keeping well.

A dry weekend here meant we've started to tackle a few of the bigger garden jobs; removing several fruit tree stumps, and making a start on the ditch. The bottom boundry of the garden is a very unattractive breezeblock wall; for reasons unknown, at some point in the last 30 or so years someone dug a trench along the bottom of it and used the spoil to create a very uneven hillock. The ditch itself was then (at the same time? Later?!) partly filled back in with rubble and hardcore. The whole thing is an uneven mess at the moment, so the hopeful plan is to level it all out and eventually use the hardcore as the base for a shed (with the added benefit of hiding some of the wall), but there's a lot of stone to shift first

The overgrowth hides a lot of the unevenness in the pictures, but nothing can disguise the wall!

 

I think if the wall is sound then I wouldn't worry about it to much, it's something that could be painted, used to grow climbers, fruit trees etc.

 

It seems pretty sound, and it runs the full length of the road (there's a builders merchants behind it) so that hopefully bodes well. It's north facing and gets absolutely no sun, so I'll likely go down the painting route eventually; a friend is a mural artist so I'm toying with the idea of offering it to her as a blank canvas.

 

I think that could be a perfect idea.

 

Nothing today in the garden , I did pick the odd raspberry to nimble on thought I have a look in one and found a tiny maggot in one then another and another don't know how many of them I've ate . I believe they are spotted wing drosophila which I thought only really affect the summer fruiting variety's . Obviously its really put me off raspberries now and I may scrap the lot or at least move them onto the garage site next door .

They look very nice healthy plants @ARMANDII keep a eye on the slugs they keep having a go at my E.pallida stock . The viburnum looking very nice with its burgundy leaves.

Your Brugmansia are doing well @mazambo well done . iris reticulata are very early flowering Iris more like late Febuary / March. It is a bit early for them to be sprouting but the colder weather will slow them down soon. Dutch iris are more likely to flower in May and are also bulbs, beard iris can flower in late may also but well into June / July is more common but Rhizome root system .

 

Yesterday planted a few more polyanthus and did some weeding, didn't have much time to do anything else and I've strained my chest so have to be careful.

 

Had a good day in the garden yesterday and have dug up and rehomed most of the Germaniums into their winter homes....just have the ones that are dotted about in the raised patio beds to do now , lots of natural dividing done and cuttings taken too.

Hope to get started on the frost tender Fuchsias today and then start to remove and store the Glad bulbs.

Yesterday I cleaned and repotted the Giant Lillies , which were also divided and some scales taken......

 

Ahhh @ARMANDII You beat me to it

 

Grrrrrrr.....