WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

Just got the last of the tulip bulbs in and some grass seed sown before the heavens opened.

 

I dug up the last but one Potato bag. We are having them for dinner with real Butter.
Us pensioners know how to live

 

@Balc I didn't know your wife was having treatment for her eye, I missed that imformation. However I am glad the operation went well

I hope your plants survive in the baskets @Logan, I have done that in the past and as long as they're in a frost-free place and don't dry out too much they should be fine.

I've been putting my cacti and succulents in the greenhouse. It's FULL ! ...

 

Thank you @Michael Hewett yes the plants are frost free and i put extra bubble wrap on the sliding doors.

 

Clear area for broad beans, which have been hardening off this week. Then more dead heding weeding etc.

 

Went out to see what had been washed away. Crocus are through, Honeysuckle is still in full bloom, Carnations and Pelardoniums are coming out and Black Eyed Susan flowers are still as fresh as when they first came out.

 

I went to see my friend Marion and moved a chamelia from the front garden to the back and planted some tulip bulbs but they wasn't very good, they had sprouted too much but see how they grow.

 

Broad beans planted out. Spent most of the time in the greenhouse, cleared out the last of the tomatoes, spread the compost from these around various beds; can now move in there.

 

Other than watering a few plants in the house I've not done anything. Nevertheless in this coming week I hope to plant out the last bulbs I have to put in. At the rate things are going they'll flower in their bags!!!

 

I grabbed some "reduced to clear" bulbs from Wilko yesterday, without actually looking at the bulbs. The resilience of bulbs never fails to impress, one Crocus had flowered in the bag. I doubt these will do much this spring but potted them up anyways on their sides in order not to break the growth. We'll see what happens.



Prepared hyacinth bulbs looked and felt good, they are now in pots in the garage until about New Year. Found the Amaryllis bulb and potted it up, it has been a three year battle to keep it going and bulking up after a misadventure of nearly rotting to death. Perhaps this year it will flower.

A lovely little surprise waited in the straggly Sedum pot tucked away under the Rosemary, autumn flowering Crocus is actually forming a flower. They are wispy nondescript little things that look awful after the slightest rain but it's a first for me so worth getting exited about.



Indoors I replaced the (overly optimistically) "overwintering chillies" with shop bought and home grown herbs in a planter under grow lights. They look good and fresh herbs add a bit of poshness to everyday meals. It's possible that the Chives I dug up from the outdoors herb pot came with the kind of biodiversity I'd rather not have in my kitchen but I'll cross that bridge if I find it.

In other news, The Niece, 7, has learnt to do a somersault.

 

Them are autumn flowering crocus @Selleri ( it does say on the packet ) they are trying / should be flowering now, I believe saffron is valuable if you can collect enough of it .

 

I lifted my 2 penisetums rubrum / 1 fireworks today see if can save them over winter , divided them as well got a bit carried away so got about 20 plants before I realised I've got far to many. Moved the odd pot in GH I suspect the weather may finish off most of the plants this week .