What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK3.. 2013

Been wrestleing with a very neglected waterlilly.....the pond isn't usually my department but it desperatley needed doing as the fish could hardy move in there....I dragged it out of the pond first thing and left it for a while so the critters could get back in...still got jumped on by frogs though.....

 

What will you do with it Loli? Can you just cut through it and grow on the sections?

 

Yes Sheal..cut it up and potted it back up half the neigbourhood have got a water lily now

 

Got home from work to find my front garden had been transformed, my father inlaw had come down and spent most of the day sorting it out. He has done a fantastic job on it. So I took out an unruly rosemary at the side of the steps and planted a couple of trailing plants to hopefully cascade down the wall (I can't remember what they are called though). Planted peas and beans with a catch crop of radish in between. Planted a trailing Fuschia in the old chimney pot and then swept up the patio ready for pressure washing.

Rusty

 

2 greenhouses now clean and tidy - one more to go (tomorrow) - garden is full of rubbish to be burnt/disposed of.

Put lots of plants out - been re-potting acers, and a viburnum plus repotting of new guinea impatiens and bacopa from plugs (am still losing plants that are in the rogue B&Q MC bag - namely the impatiens - would almost have been cheaper to buy them as plugs at this rate, but they might have been smaller). Planted up beef toms in 10 litre pots.

The half-rotted cherry tree next door has had beautiful late blossom - which is now shedding all over my garden, in my pots, over my rocket and salad leaves everywhere - even in my hair - looks a right mess out there - will be worse once the petals die.
Lots of snails about after the bit of rain this morning - accidently trod on one

S

 

Managed to get a couple of quick jobs done this evening.

The winter brassica patch is still producing sprouting broccoli and the last of the winter cabbages, but getting a bit weedy. So a quick hoe and hand weed sorted that out,
(would have been quicker if I hadn't got tangled up in the pigeon netting).

Then, bearing in mind the windy forecast for tomorrow, I knocked in some stakes and put string around the autumn sown broad beans, which are now about 1ft high and have started flowering.
Next job......go and get that beer that's sitting in the fridge.

 

Potted on 25 Shansta Daisey silver Princess and 30 Lupins Tutti Frutti.

Rusty

 

Been clearing a site for my new "blow away". Looking forward to getting it set up!

 

TOo windy and wet to do anything :( dobbies got offer on 3 perriannls for the price of two. Couldnt afford that but baught mum an agastache "black adder"

 

Certainly will. I think I'm going to have my hands full with this project! Lol.