What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

It's raining here in Cheshire so I might shelter in the Green House and sow some more Sweetpeas.

 

haven't done a lot today. Pulled out, from our wild garden, two very large tubs full of moss for Mrs Shiney to use for the Christmas wreaths that have been ordered, carried a 50litre bag of compost to the greenhouse (about all my back would let me) and filled a giant bucket with weeds from where I have started clearing a flower bed near the shed.

 

Good afternoon took delivery of 5 bags of John Inns topped raised beds up and filled 3 large black bins up in the greenhouse,swept and tidied all the leaves up,cleaned bird aviary out ,put some shelves up in the new shed and then decided to leave some other pleasurable jobs until tomorrow

 

It's still damp everywhere in the garden but, as the jobs seem to be mounting up, I put my mucky gardening clothes on and decided to do a few jobs.
I cut back the Clematis on the Trellis Entrance to the garden back by a couple of feet,
as every time I passed through it the Clematis, which was hanging down like Jungle Creepers, were grasping at my Hat and Specs as well as circling around my face and throat
I moved back, to their original place,the Flag Stones that I laid on the "Walk Around" Border so that the Porter's Trolley would not sink into the soil when I was moving the Stone Plinth from the Patio to it's final site into the middle of the border. I'd also had to take out about 25' of Sandstone edging on the West side of the central path as it was too narrow for the Porter's Trolley when I was moving the Plinth, so I got down my knees again and using a Trowel scooped out a trench for them to go back in. Some of the stone edging must weigh around 10lbs a piece so I had to watch that I didn't catch my fingers. The path needs a good sweep but it's too damp to do it properly at the moment so that job will have to wait.
I had a delivery of 250 mixed Crocus yesterday, so they are now in the Green House where they'll stay until Wednesday when I'll plant them along the edging of the lawn ready for a, hopefully, good showing in Spring.
I looked on the Dry Wipe Board in the Green House at the list of jobs to still to do and decided they were all a "to be done soon, but not today jobs" and headed for the House and a Mug of Tea.

 

@Upsydaisy
I see you're still hanging onto the sunshine. Very drear and damp here - but no rain.


On Friday we cut down and dug out some of the 67 year old privet


And I pressure washed all the green algae and dirt that was on the fence behind it and Mrs Shiney does the painting job.


Whilst the pressure washer was out I then cleaned up this area that runs off from the privet


The cut down privet was lugged all the way down to the bonfire


And the dug out stumps (really tough job - but not done by me ) also went on there




Still continuing to put leaves on the compost heaps (these are three of our five heaps in this part of the garden)


Continued weeding (perennial weeds, forget-me-nots, brambles, wild garlic etc.) This is also a Dahlia bed where we leave the corms in (and the rabbits dig them out )


Cut back half of this as it seems to have given up the ghost. I'll cut back the rest and then get someone to dig it out.