What are we doing in the garden 2024

Here's a video that might help Brennabee.

 

After collecting the seeds from our foxgloves I do tend to sow some in early Autumn and once they have germinated( not many weeks), they get potted on a couple of times ( when roots appear underneath pot) at which point I leave them in the greenhouse or the cold frames over winter. There is no point planting them out in the ground where we live( not far from you @ArmyAirForce ) as they just wither and rot away. Others may say different however, so just saying what I tend to do here. I have sown seeds later than this though and have had no problem with germination.
I have never seem them get greenfly though at this time of the year before which is why I was surprised to see them today.
Out of interest, our foxgloves did not go to seed until well into mid- late summer. I never direct sow them either here. Don’t grow lupins so can’t offer any advise on them I’m afraid.

 

Clearly he wanted to have his crap in comfort out of the rain.

 

Just did some Cosmos deadheading today. Some of them are as tall as me and I've had to stake them as the constant rain was battering them flat.

I've got lots of bulbs that want planting. Camassias arrived at the weekend and cyclamen today. I've still got daffodils, tulips and muscari to put in pots, and I've just ordered more tulips for the front garden - inspired by the recent Gardeners World episode I'm getting Ballerina and Tulipa praestans 'Shogun'.

 

I've never had greenfly/aphids on foxgloves. You can sow foxgloves at almost any time of year, but you have to remember they're bi-ennial. There's a few cultivated types which are supposed to be more perennial. They certainly shouldn't be cosseted though. Mine are outside all the time. I don't direct sow, but they'll self seed.
It will also depend on what type it is you're sowing - many of them revert. The common one will take over if conditions suit it. It's why they produce thousands of seed on just one plant - not all of them germinate.
I got several plants, that I'd divided and potted, planted out yesterday. Some rearranging round by the shed, so that I can have a leaf cage, although it's just a builder's bag for this year. Went and collected a few bags of leaves from a nearby street, as I don't have suitable trees in the garden, and I miss having leaf mould.
I might get some more today, and I can squeeze those in somewhere in the bags. I have a few more plants that might get shoved in the front bed too.

 

I have done very little if anything in the garden for weeks. Not sure why, although the weather hasn’t helped. We have had some lovely days but everything is so wet. Also my motivation seems to have gone south and free time, enthusiasm and weather have refused to arrive at the same time.

Anyway, my wallflowers have arrived, a couple of days ago, and are sat looking increasingly sad so today I am determined to get out and make a start on my Spring pots.

 

Meant to say - trying to grow lupins in a woodland really won't work.
They're mostly slug fodder here so I don't grow them now, although there's a dark red one which seems to do quite well that I've seen in a few gardens.

 

I'm planning on planting them at the back, on the outside edge, where they get the late afternoon and evening sun.

 

I've dug up the couch grass on the edge of what I call my Rough Patch, a steeply sloping small area where mostly weeds grow. Found some 'Tommie' crocus corms underneath beginning to sprout so hastily replanted them and put cloches over to outwit the squirrels - fat chance. Pleased to see a robin fly down to investigate the ants that had been disturbed.

 

That looks like part of an air raid shelter and behind it, a section of Pierced Steel Planking, used for runways and taxiways on World War 2 airfields!

 

Did some more weeding in the border along the drive, planted the last of the polyanthus in there.

 

That's very quick for compost @shiney . Takes a good couple of years here to look like that, and even then it can be lumpy, despite chopping up stems/stalks etc. It's always worth the effort though

I didn't do a huge amount yesterday as I had to go out in the afternoon, so it was mainly planting out a couple of things, and painting the inside of the shed door. Planted some more bulbs after removing some of the annuals I had, so that's a good amount for spring to look forward to as well. I sowed a couple of pots of sweet peas a few days ago. Not something I often bother with in autumn as spring sown ones catch up. The autumn ones don't really get going any quicker during April/early May than the newly sown ones.
Today, I'll check the dahlias I lifted and see if I can get the soil properly removed. Then it's a case of seeing where I can put them. Still some growing, so I'll leave those for now. Forgot about collecting more leaves, so I'll try and do that before they come and completely clear all the pavements. The men were out the other day in some areas.

 

@Logan Entertaining video , not sure about urinating on the leaf stack though , dont think it would be something the neighbours would approve of.