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

Have been all day drinking lots of water, had a couple of hours sleep earlier and feel much better now. A good nights sleep will see me chipper again, especially as it's raining again, so should make for a more comfortable night.

 

October then?

 

Due to the heavy down pours over the last couple of days I still haven't clipped the Buxus so that's the first job on my list...shall I get dressed first? Naaah strike while the shears are hot

 

World Naked Gardening Day is the first weekend of May - you're either Late or Early!

http://wngd.org/

 

Not in the best moods as it has rained, correction monsooned again over night. Large areas of my herbaceous borders are now horizontal (ok yes I should have staked more things but hate that job) having grown far too big. My late flowering Rhododendrons have been ruined, their flowers bruised with the heavy rain and even The Meconopsis are struggling to keep up a good show. Jobs today are dead heading the Rhododendrons and staking huge areas of herbaceous. Yup "shutting stable door....." etc. I will have to do better on the staking front next season. Sounds like my school reports, "could do better"

 

... or whether to be indecisive?!

 

About half of my Garlic has got rust quite badly so I guess Im lifting that later to try to limit how much of the rest of the crop gets infected. First time thats appeared in my garden, must be the warm damp winter I guess.

 

Finished weeding the gravel drive, tidied up both rhododendrons and pulled out all the Lily Of The Valley that was inbetween them. I've pulled it all out, it's just leaves with snail holes in. I'll try and dig out all the roots tomorrow

 

Finally got round to removing the trellis the wisteria came with in its pot and training it into my cog trellis. Also fed some of the pots with tomato feed

 

Love the trellis!

 

Thank you :-) i make and sell them. The cogs are my favourite one