What are we doing in the garden 2024

Got the other two roses potted up today.

 

Sowed 40 modules of delikett sugar snaps and 20 of sweet sensation mange tout. Mainly for pods but I'll use up an excess for tops in with the salads

 

I drove over the border to the states to pick up some parts for my animal barrier for around the raised bed. Picked up the order at a warehousing facility and then when I got home I discovered some wrong parts had been packaged. I've let the manufacturer know and I'm sure they will replace them with the proper items. Then I have to drive back down again to pick them up

I did pot up some broccoli seedlings and will put myself in a better mood by admiring my other thriving seedlings.

 

Not much today but had a more a less a full day on Wednesday in the garden, dry enough to get into the borders so moved a few plants , Roses planted . Had a load of problems moving a Baptisia they aren't really a plant what are supped to me moved but it were surprisingly difficult with the tap root , I manged to dig get out a 15ft + brambly apple tree the other day which didn't seem as difficult . With moving plants it seem to conjure up more plants some how .

Pricked out quite a few seedling it were nice and warm in the GH.

Painted my log store with creosote / oil was going well until I tripped over the tub half of it down my leg / boot in the boot with some choice words

 

I sympathize with you @Perki, that's the sort of thing that would happen to me

 

I finished cutting the Grass, it was a tad wet but I had rubber boots & gloves on so was quite safe

 

I've actually made a start on getting the allotment sorted out.
It's very wet but as the ground has had lots of organic material over the last 10 years or so it not as claggy as I thought it would be.

 

As soon as it gets up to the 40's F I'm heading outside.

The guessers here have also said that the days ahead will have dipping temps and although the solar eclipse is not until April 8th, I'd like to get the greenhouse totally tidied and make room for at least shoulder to shoulder seating. I've told Emily that we can have an "Eclipse Party" that day and she may invite friends to have some fun witnessing the total blackout expected that afternoon. We are almost directly in the path - I am just to the left (west) of Toronto.

And I'm going to cut off the animal barrier netting which has some rather large chew holes - didn't that work great right? Anyway, I've ordered heavy metal mesh to replace it so this will have everything prepped for it's arrival.

And later when the clouds move in, I'll be sewing my snapdragon seeds.

 

Lucky you, @CanadianLori , a total eclipse, we came close, in I think, it was 2000, it was strange even though it wasn't total.
I'll be well gone before we get another even close to that one.

 

Hubby finished pruning the roses and I've sown a few seeds. Cosmos, polyanthus and pot marigolds.
2 types of cosmos, sweet kisses and apricotta, I sowed them last Tuesday and the sweet kisses have come up.

 

This morning did some more weeding and pruning.
This afternoon did battle with the Phyllostachys nigra and cut out a load of weak, defunct and crowded canes. The stiff breeze made it a bit like wrestling an octopus.

 

The last 2 days I've been able to do a little work on the balcony. I've been tidying up the Carnation seedling I sowed last year. There are an awful lot of them the majority of them were potted up last summer into 2 inch square pots but a few went into 3" round pots. They became infested with a caterpillar that apart from eating the leaves likes to cover itself inside the leaves which it pulls together with its silk & making them into a tube where it is safe from any predators - including us humans! The thing is it's not satisfied with Carnations it also has to do the same with the Cyclamen & other plants! So the last 2 days I've been "waging war" on the things! One of the problems is that apart from being very small they drop to the ground when they feel you opening up their tubes! I knew about this trick so for the most part I was prepared for that. I think, today at least, no more than one got away.

I have done all the seedlings in pots &now I have the original tray to do. I didn't have enough small pots back in the summer for all the seedlings so when I finished all the pots I just spread out the remaining seedling in the original seed tray till I could get more pots. Of course I forgot about the pots & so they have spent the whole winter in the seedtray! I need to get them out & potted up during the next couple of weeks. I want to pot on the other seedlings, the ones already in pots, into bigger pots.

I have so many because I thought I would plant them in the church gardens come next spring. What I didn't imagine at that time was that I'd be changing churches a few months later & the one I now go to is in the sports hall of an infants/junior school. So no garden!

Yesterday I cut off the dead plants from the hanging baskets. I will empty them out sometime over the coming weeks & get them ready for summer planting again.

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@CanadianLori my son lives in Ohio and has taken the day off from work to watch the eclipse. I saw the eclipse here in 1961 which was 95% coverage but not the later one in 1999 which was total.

I'd been potting small shrubs today until interrupted by a phone call that took me to Inverness.

 

I have Jet Washed a small part of my patio using a heavy machine bought years ago, very hard work. I usually use Bleach & brush.