What are we doing in the garden 2024

@wiseowl. Which varieties did you plant? Just interested!

 

weeding, cleaning up, dead heading, pulling extra plants out. finding fallen limbs for the wood pile, cutting dead branches off of shrubs.

 

Top dressed some plants that live permanently in pots, repotted some other plants in the greenhouse. Then weeding, need to clear up the bodies tomorrow morning.

 

Took advantage of a dry, mild day once the mizzle had cleared. I may have overdone it.....
Round to a friend's house this morning, I help sort her garden out for her, doing the things she can't due to health issues...which to be honest is most of it. Weeded and fluffed all round the borders, it looked very nice afterwards. Also sowed some calendula and iberis direct between the lavenders, hope they come up now!
Back home, bit of weeding, bit of plant-moving, bit of cutting back snowdrop and narcissus leaves (just the ones that are beginning to droop/turn brown....honestly.... ). Planted out some dwarf iris and species tulips that had gone over (to be honest, they didn't even get started....), in the hope they'll do better in the ground. Hubby cut the lawns later, and I edged up some of it....the rest can wait till my back stops hurting!
Just been out and watered all the young plants in the greenhouse, cold frame, potting shed and back shelf with some weak plant feed, and I'm contemplating bringing the tomatoes back in for the night as temperatures are forecast to fall to 3-5!

 

It looks incredibly neat and tidy, you are doing a good job.

 

Thanks, considering we only have 3 volunteers ages 72, 70 and me the whippa snapper at 66 it takes a lot just keeping on top of the weeds so managing to get some veg in the beds and hanging basket plants growing in the greenhouse is a absolute bonus.

 

Ha! I'd be keeping you company there. Yesterday was dry but with a really cold wind. I just couldn't work up any enthusiasm to be out there.

 

They look good enough to eat, like chocolate and crushed nuts on my phone!

 

Well what a difference. Sun shining with some heat and very little wind. Weeded out some glads again in the wrong place. Cut back the plants growing in front of the garage only because we couldn't close the door! Cut the hornbeam hedge for the first time (checked no bird nests). Planted out some pumpkin plants into an old compost heap which is protected. Then planted out the sweet corn. This had to be done as they were becoming leggy. The patch they went into had to be weeded out even though it had weed membrane down. Dug up loads of Chinese artichokes (no idea why they are called artichokes apart from their roots I suppose are similar if not knobbly to Jerusalems) and uprooted 2 foxgloves again growing where they shouldn't. Transplanted them with a doggy chance in another area. In all we think we have done well this morning.

 

Chuffed with the Honesty this year
And last year’s Calibrachoa are still alive

 

Lovely warm day! Virtually emptied the potting shed onto the shelf and put the wall/hanging baskets out for the day. Moved the sunflowers from the cold frame (where it seems the slugs/snails are ingenious and ate one despite my having raised the trays on pots....) to the back shelf, they can go back in the potting shed tonight.
OH attacked the acanthus mollis to try and get it back under control, and now he's gone to cut our field. Meanwhile I finished edging up the lawn and did a bit of weeding.
After watching Gardeners' World last night I was very taken with the Lunaria annua Corfu Blue and went searching for it to order.....as it happened, I found the only supply was from Derry Watkins (Special Plants Nursery) who was on the programme last night. I have saved seed from Lunaria Chedglow and Variagata Alba to sow too, so hopefully I'll have lots of honesty next year!

 

We have had a bumper year for honesty too. However no matter how much I scatter the seeds from my few white ones, they only ever pop up in small numbers in the same place. The purple grow in much bigger numbers and all over the place Luckily I’ve grown to love them too

 

Moved some large pots out of the greenhouse, gathered up weeds from yesterday and moved to compost heap, bringing back compost for the runner bean trench.
Mowed some of the grass and weeded.