What jobs are we doing today in the garden ?

Thank you All For your Well Wishes Never Traped a Nerv Before & never want to trap one Again!!!!

I Have had Back Trouble a Couple of Years Now But Never Like This

Iv Got CO-CODAMOL Whitch Iv been takeing for Ages & Zydol & Amitriptyline I Carnt take Anti Inflamatrey Cus Iv got an Ulser feel like im dying

IT WILL PASS Wont be Doing a Lot for the Next Fortnight They Tell Me? GUTTED All Again Nick

 

Took the guillotine to the bolted Onions,
Unable to do anything else, due to the constant rain
Grass is now nearly 12" high

Company with Amazon replaced my broken camera with one phone call, a brandnew one arrived at 07:30 this morning, and the courier arrived at 16:20 to take the old one back
All in less than 24 hours, (I have worried over a week about this, looking at writing £300 off after three weeks use)

I have lots to do in the Garden, but it is too wet,
I also need to remove builders rubble after the new build wall, but just can not face shoveling it up in the rain after two weeks of 35c sunshine :-(

Jack McH

 

get well soon Nick. you'll be building, lifting and gardening before you know it IF you take it easy for a week or 2.

just cut the lawn and laser beamed me edges again. did a bit of weeding and then had a brew and a cig

 

have been brewing 25 litres of compost tea since yesterday morning ....

I will add the final touches (30ml of biobizz algae/seaweed extract, 30ml of biobizz fish mix, and 30ml of advanced nutrients igunana juice) .... and will use that on a small garden that I have been experimenting with, using the high brix fertilizing methods

 

Well back from Newcastle late last night.
Wow what a difference 3 days make geraniums all have flower heads and now.
But the down side is that the b****y slugs and snail have had a party on the dahlias

 

Mowed lawns front and back, done some weeding and dead heading. Planted A buddelia buzz into its final pot. Cleared front garden where next doors garden has encroached onto mine, now thinking of a planting scheme for the 2 areas.

Rusty

 

Managed to cut the grass down to three inches high (dry day but grass still a bit wet)
Hopefully we will have another dry night and I can do a final cut in the morning

Had eightyear-old grandson round today, so let him dig up his six Swift early potatoes, and bag all twentyfour (just smaller than tennis balls) up to take home to his Mum

Sprayed Tomatoes with Epsom Salts and main crop tatties with Bordeaux mixture

Jack McH

 

Finally pruned my morello cherry tree ( shiney) and it looks so much better now, cleaned up my lillies, thanks to all the slugs and snails they are looking extremely messy

 

Hope you not sidelined too long Nick, take it easy when you return the garden mate.

Myself over the last couple of days, well;

I've got the other lawn cut, taking the tops of several ants nests in the process exposing the eggs which the birds were very grateful for..

Cut back MORE of that blinking russina vine (mile a minute vine ) from the neighbours, I know it grows fast but this year it really is taking the biscuit.

Lifted my last lot of spuds, they weren't supposed to be ready until August/September, but the flowers had been and gone and the leaves were yellowing, so I lifted a couple and found some HUGE spuds amongst others that were tennis ball sized; the whole lot come up then. Also found one or two had started rotting on one end, presumably because the ground was just sooo wet and soggy, glad I lifted them early now otherwise they may have all been rotten in another 6-8 weeks or so. Can't remember the variety but they were sold as lates and are pink skinned...very happy with the amount I've got from 3 rows though

Also continuing to harvest the peas, raspberries and strawberries.

Got rid of a small row of Pak Choi as they had bolted at just 3" tall even though they are in lovely moist fertile ground, last year I could understand it as it was so dry but this year?, with all the rain?

 

The sun is shining , so I will run mower over lawn as cut poorly last week ,after the deluges, check greenhouse,throw out all the excess tomato plants which i kept just in case of failures,(should have gone weeks ago)and generally "potter"

 

Decided to cut my back lawn today. It`s absolutely saturated and if it didn`t rain for a month, the ground still wouldn`t have dried out. Crocosmias in the middle are ruined since they don`t like sitting in water. That`s after raising the soil level 6 inches in there as well.
I just had to bit the bullet and cut the grass. It`ll recover in time. I thought about the strimmer but at about 100 square metres, it was too much. Just used the mower and stopped every minute or so to un-clog it




Before.....




After. The starlings seem happy enough though



Also did some dead-heading. My Dahlias are really coming on now and am glad I bought them.

 

Those starlings are as happy as Larry aren't they Gretzky!