WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

That's the Cordylines gone.


The Acacia might have to go as well.

 

It's a shame to lose a tree with a good spread on it @strongylodon, it leaves the garden looking very bare.

 

Are the cordyline stems still firm and green under the bark @strongylodon

 

I spent an hour on the balcony emptying out the hanging baskets & filling them with new compost. But gardening on a balcony has its own, unique problems - what do I do with all the old compost??? It's not as if I had flowerbeds I could cover with it to act like a mulch while it breaks down & becomes part of the soil! Can't be reused as it's 3 years old! That's how long it's been since I last changed the compost in the 5 or 6 I've done so far. Still got another 3 or 4 to do!

I also emptied out the old compost from lots of pots I had under the table on the balcony. They were full of Geraniums & Pelargoniums that the terribly hard frosts of December killed off. I just put them under the table till warmer weather came around.

Last Saturday I took a couple of bags of used compost round to my church's gardens. I used them to cover the soil I weeded. That's what I'll do with the other 3 bags that are bursting with old compost on the balcony.

 

He's on the ground floor.

 

Can't you give it to someone?

 

Yesterday did some more weeding and cutting back old stems of the perennials and hubby started pruning the roses.

 

@pete, yes the cordys are firm and green under the bark so I am leaving them to see if any shoots emerge from the base but that could be some time.

 

Rain's stopped play in the borders, so tucked under the roof on the terrace sowing chillies, toms, carnations, Nicotiana and Salvia

 

Nothing today it's raining.

 

That old film "The Great Escape comes to mind.