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

Finished painting my fence in the veg patch area. Planted out my artichoke plant and beautyberry bush. I also put up my crocheted butterfly trellises on the back of my shed and planted out a yellow honeysuckle :-)

 

Hi Jen

I bought a tub of swell Gell and do the same thing using small yogurt pots and had the same results

 

Did some Chelsea chopping on the Alchemilla Mollis, my next door neighbours huge Bowles Mauve Wallflower, and dead headed the Buddelia. Then I removed the straggly, woody old perpetual wallflowers from the border under the front window boxes and dug the bed over with a sprinkling of BF and B. I found a clump of this year's primrose seedlings in there so I've divided them up a bit and put them back in together with my Red Cowslip that came from Shineyland in May. I have some fresh plug plants of new Perennial wallflowers that are growing on nicely in the shade and they will be going in the front border in a couple of months time.
Jenny

 

Did lots of dead heading this morning and some weeding but then it got far too hot for gardening

 

Could you grow through Mypex? Sorry, we probably has this conversation in the Mypex thread ... but I can't remember what you said! Maybe you have them amongst your flowers?

Mine is just coming into flower, so now a race to remove - before it sets seed

 

Bind weed

I have a Rose bed next to a fence covered in Ivy approximately 25ft long and it was over run with Bind weed strangling everything in sight so last year I got on my hands and knees and cut it off, every single stem 6" from the ground then meticulously painted it with a well known weed killer,covered them in little bags and thought I'd cracked it Not on your nelly...I won't be faffing like that again...

 

Old Bind Weed - it's a right pig isn't it.
Ground Elder, Marestail and Bindweed are the gardener's nightmare,
Jenny

 

I've eradicated Ground Elder from a garden with Glyphosate in the past ... not achieved that, as yet, with Horsetail/Marestail or Bindweed, although I have 90% control of Horsetail such that it is not longer a nuisance, but I cannot seem to kill the last few bits that come up in the same place each year ...

 

The new fence paint has arrived so im very slowly painting the fence

 

Made this from bits of a crate that Mr Jane had another lathe arrive in.

Today I pit the lid on and put it up in the garden.

 

Hi JJ,
what type of resident would like that? It's not like a typical bird box is it,
Jenny

 

A robin I believe.