What jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2015

Dead heading and generally tiding up.
Picking the feeble pickings from this years tomatoes, enough for me but not enough to share around :-(

 

Photos are in the WLGI September thread, @Sian in Belgium

Spuds were earthed up yesterday and they're pretty much at the top of the potato sacks now. I also had a skip and cleared the breezeblock and rubbish from the side path and most of the back garden. The side path looks so empty! The ground just needs a good scrub and then I can do a windowbox under the kitchen window and pots of ferns, hostas etc against the garage wall. Junk yard to scenic garden access route, I hope!

 

I doubt I'll be doing anything....the weather is dire!

 

I've pruned and dug up two Rose bushes (and scratched my arms up in the process) and a Philadelphus, all of which are on my neighbour's front path waiting for him to discover I've left them there (he's had a load of stuff off me for his son's garden).

There are a few dwarf Rhodos to go to neighbour other side/work colleague and then I think I'm pretty much clear of anything I don't want. Some stuff in pots is going in borders (3 or 4 Roses, 3 Deciduous Azaleas and a couple of large-ish Rhodos, but not until Oct/Nov time.

I've swept the drive as well and sprayed some weeds/grass which were coming up in the newly-widened front borders. Might have to cover them in mulch until I plant stuff out.

 

Hell its only 10 am! What time were you up @merelworld? I've only just finished my toast and Coffee.
All this clearing wouldn't be to make room for your Crocus purchases would it? Or maybe you have been buying again. I have banned myself from looking at any catalogues until 2016.

 

@silu I'd also walked the dogs before starting on the garden I'm an early riser so it was around 4am today - best part of the day between 4 and 7.

Have also now mowed the lawn which, for one reason or another, hadn't been done for a while. It was so long that my neighbour asked me if I was haymaking Had to go over it twice and I'll probably go over it again once it's had a chance to dry out. Should have kept on top of it in the first place

 

I'll take your word for it @merleworld that 4 to 7 am is the best part of the day!! Isn't it funny how we as humans have 2 distinct body clock types. I'm like my late Mum and don't function until about 10 am but still going at 2am,1 brother is like me the other is like my Father who would happily get up at about 5am with accompanied whistling (hellish) but would be wanting to head for bed at about 9pm.

 

Finally managed to do some gardening today after weeks of not. I cleared the last of the sweet peas and weeded the whole bed and planted the wisteria in it.

and I cleared the hollyhocks which were looking way past there best

also chopping up the sunflower that toppled in the bad weather so now the patio is clear of the 11ft monster

 

It's been a lovely warm day so I made a start on clearing plants I'm not taking with me when I move. Lots of annuals bit the dust plus other plants which I don't like or which haven't performed. Everything I grow is in a container of some sort so I'm also binning containers which are past it and falling to bits. Hopefully the weather will be kind to me tomorrow but even if it isn't, I'll have to crack on as I've got an awful lot of pots.

 

I had the hedge trimmed again on Sunday and it's now looking much healthier and manageable. My aim now is to take it over myself next year with telescopic shears.

Ordered edging for the front garden borders and I'm getting a quote tomorrow morning for stump grinding, as the remaining ornamental cherry trunk has to come out before anything else can be done now. I'm really feeling the need to crack on before it's too late.

 

Today I scythed my lawn meadow (which I do once a year). Now raking it for loose bits and to remove the moss. Next thing will be to plant wildflower seeds in the soil gaps - hollyhocks, antirrhinum, some purple spray flowers (ID not known) and, possibly, michelmas daisies.

 

My scaffold boards were delivered for the raised beds! Now to learn some DIY skills quickly. Lol.

 

Hi Rosebay,
Are you sure about planting Hollyhocks and Antirrhinum in a wildflower meadow ?
Antirrhinum grow quite bushy ( they are actually classed as a sub-shrub ) and I would have thought Hollyhocks were too tall.

 

watering, watering, and more watering. moving the sprinkler around. too hot here also. hate that.

 

Yes, well I had 2nd thoughts about the antirrhinum in the meadow....it wouldn't survive the long grass, so I planted it elsewhere. However I have distributed the hollyhock seeds in the lawn meadow. The seeds come from plants that are about waist high. If they grow higher, then I have no problem with that. They are one of my favourite flowers. I forgot to mention that I had some foxglove seeds to distribute there also.