What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK2..

Thank you FC. What coloutful fun. Would cheer up a dull bog standard salad.

 

Busy day today - scythed the long grass around the pond and OH gathered it all up into a heap and top cut round so now the mice and frogs have nowhere to go . Might leave it a bit later next year but underneath was all flat and damp and thatchy. Found a HUGE elephant hawk moth larvae which I bunged in a patch of rosebay willow herb. Dug a trench out for some autumn planting tatties (no mean feat - we have heavy clay soil here ) . Not sure if they'll come to anything. I sort of did them in memory of my father-in-law who always bought the gone-over tatties in the shops- once they'd gone all sprouty - and shovelled them into trenches. Never done that before but - there's always a first time.

 

Yup to all of that. You will probably find that the colour ones are sweeter - trade-off is that they take another couple of weeks to ripen further to get from Green to "their ripe colour"

I bought some plants one year, didn't pay too much attention to the label ... waited patiently for them to go Red ... they didn't ... then they rotted ... in starting to make the moves to evict the plant I retrieved the original garden centre label buried next to the plants ... "Green Bell" ... well what do you know, eh? !!!

 

Cut the lawn and weeded. Got 2 buckets full of weeds that are now in the recycling bin

 

I've started to clear the annuals that are just about finished and did the weeding at the same time. I've also taken cuttings and got those potted up.

 

Mowed the lawn again. Last mowed it Saturday at 40mm. Mowed today at 30mm.
Getting ready for scarifying in the next week or so.
Probably mow again Friday or Saturday down to 20mm
Looking a little dodgy at the moment but I know it will look better in a few months.
Good thing is that I don't have to rake it by hand now because a friend is lending me a electric lawn rake
Did about 2m2 earlier by hand and the amount of thatch was unreal nearly filled a wheelie bin!
Oh and picked my first toms this year

 

dead headed plants down at mams then came home to have to replant my leeks seem to have had a visiting cat use my leek bed as a toilet ( yes it could make a good joke too) but one was not amused !I have had to put net over top to stop repeat performance

 

Today I have dug up my old strawberry plants and discarded them and then replanted a larger area within the veg patch with some young plants from this years runners and some 1 year old plants from last year.

I have also put up my second arch that I got from Wilkos half price (pics to follow ).

 

Oh and forgot to mention, also cut the large established laurel hedge on the front for the 3rd time this year....normally only have to cut it twice but its grown really well this year

 

Very little due to constant heavy rain..... might go and have a chat to my toms in the GH

 

We have a 3ft square planter on wheels. I grew some rather pathetic sweet peas in it - even gave them a nice black ornamental obelisk to climb up. All out today and replaced top half with fresh compost and some feed pellets then replanted it with loads of last year's mini daffs and squiill. . They were allowed to stay and plump up in May this year before storage in the back of the garage. They feel firm and heavy so if it works, will have saved me money. I will treat the planter to some F1 Winter flowering pansies at the weekend so we have some Autumn colour to view.

 

I sit by the garden/French door a lot FC in the dull Winter days when it's too naff to be out there.(Don't wanna be thinkin' about THAT just now) so I must have some welcoming colour to gaze at. I will take piccies, you know me - a piccie addict.....