What Jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2014..

I've been slowly emptying the Green House of plants so I can make room for the Tomatoes. The local Gardening Club came this evening to collect boxes and trays of plants for their annual sale, and I've been labeling up plants for Shiney's Open Day after a mug of tea when getting home. But tonight I changed into mucky clothes, filled the Pressure Spray with a solution of Jeyes Fluid and sprayed the buckets the Toms were going in. Then when they were dry I filled all 15 buckets with compost [used 250 litres] and planted 3 plants each of Rosada, Alicante, Ailsa Craig, Jean Flamme, and Shirley and tied them to canes. After that it was a sit by the pond with another and then upstairs for a Shower to get rid of all the muck!!
While I was having that by the pond I checked around to make sure that my wading around in the pond the other day to take out dead stems and rubbish had worked...it's looking pretty good I must admit. I use my Chest Waders for fishing but they really come in handy when sorting out the pond!!

Job done.....Hanging up to dry.

 

Well, Mrs C and I went into the garden and I got my chopper out..........









Now, behave you lot! You know I was referring to my anvil loppers

I cut both lavatera back, one of which quite severely as it had simply gotten out of hand, trimmed a wee bit, then dug over the back border that they live in as the ground was quite compacted and wet; I have turned it over quite roughly at the moment, just to let it dry a bit as much as anything, so will return to it properly when I go to plant it up.

I then reassembled what was the strawberry tree, and made it into a tree of trailing petunias; then I moved some begonias into two trough planters for our outhouse roof (hope they take off a bit now they are planted up, as they are still quite small), then I had no choice but to water stuff despite it still being quite bright as there was quite a bit that was thirsty;



And whilst passing me out some petunias for the petunia tree, Mrs C discovered a visitor hiding in the greenhouse:

 

Hi Jenny - Mrs C said he was quite a big frog; No idea where he is living, but he must have snuck in under the greenhouse frame at the back corner. He is welcome though - no harm in a frog as far as I am aware.

 

Anyone seen my hedge? It seems to have disappeared!!