What jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2015

Starting to feel a bit better now and did one battery's worth of grass mowing. Was lovely out there with lots of daffodils opening and a dark leaved prunus with dainty blossom. Quite mild too. Oh and the dark blue petunias are popping up in their seed tray :-) I love them for their scent, just hoping these will be well endowed in that department... Normally the dark blue/purple grandiflora ones seem to be, so I decided to do them from seed this year. Usually I spend ages in a garden centre making a selection by sniff test

 

Got some serious petrol kit out today and felled quite a bit of stuff

 

Silly Billy

You've over done it: again!

 

Today , did nothing in the garden .
Going to do the same tomorrow. ( but faster )

 

I achieved absolutely nothing as well Harry. A visit from my eldest offspring this morning and five hours skyping with my other two put pay to that.

 

Not much done in the garden yesterday, wasn't feeling too good (self inflicted).

But, I did manage to get out today and start planting up a new bed in a shady spot. Fatsia, gunnera, banana and numerous ferns. Didn't realise how many ferns I had!

 

On a dull, overcast day with a nagging, cold northeasterly wind I needed a job that would keep me warm, so I tackled the job of changing the soil in the greenhouse.

As I barrowed the soil backwards and forwards between the greenhouse and the veg patch, there were none of the usual neighbourhood sounds of people enjoying their gardens on a Sunday afternoon. The cold, grey weather, it seemed, had driven everyone else back indoors.

As I laboured to and fro with my wheelbarrow and spade, working up a good sweat in the process, I felt that slightly smug satisfaction and feeling of contentment we gardeners sometimes get from knowing you are out in the fresh air doing something 'useful', while most other people are sitting indoors glued to their computers, TV screens or whatever.

Yes, it was grey, cold and felt like the depths of winter. But I was warm, content and I was getting some good exercise. I had an inquisitive, perky little robin to keep me company, the hens were contentedly scratching around nearby and the first daffodil of the spring had opened up under the old apple tree next to the veg patch. A pair of rooks cawed and busied themselves nearby in a neighbours tree, collecting twigs for nest building. Nature carried on.

The simple pleasures of gardening.

 

Planted out some Salvia Cardonna, Helenium Ruby Tuesday, Penstemmon Rich Ruby and Anchura Azurea Loddon Royalist. Tidied up a bit round the flower beds but was too cold to do any more

 

Spent yesterday afternoon out on the allotment, 4 hours of digging eek, today went to the garden center to get some more seed compost, then round to MIL's, then back home checked and watered my plants in the greenhouse, still amazed at to what has survived the winter...

Tomorrow, starting some more seeds off, and now I've got my thermometer for the greenhouse, I will start noting low/high temps..

 

Hoed and prepared another flower bed. Haven't been able to put any compost on as I've run out and am skint at the mo. Didn't stop me planting on some gladioli bulbs though.
The chooks also loved the worms I kept finding while I was at it!