What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK2..

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I've picked beans today and put the sprinkler on the veg. Too hot to do anything else

 

Mowed the main lawns (about a third of an acre) this morning but it got too hot. So I didn't carry on.

After lunch I spent an hour tying back 30ft of crocosmia lucifer that had been pushed almost flat by the laurel getting too big. Mrs Shiney had cut the laurel back (by about 3ft) to give it room. I was able to do this in the shade of the laurel.

Then I picked about 14lb of beans

Some of the laurel filled three wheelie bins (ours and our neighbour's) and, as I keep using their bin, I've just asked the Council for another one. They have to send an inspector out to check whether we need it and we have to already be doing a lot of composting.

The bonfire heap is getting bigger.

 

I'm not keen on even more machinery - and it takes time to put it through a chipper. I have about six bonfires a year (twice the size of that pile) and the ash gets spread on the garden.

 

I'd cut a length of 4" X 2" and treated it with timber preservative a couple of days ago and then fitted it today in the Arbour as a arm/back rest on the right hand side. I'd already installed one on the left hand side [I'm left handed] but thought it would be good to put one on the other side. Although I did it in the mid morning I still ended up in a sweat due to the Sun coming out in strength!!
Then I watered the tomatoes in the Green House in the morning and waited until the early evening to feed the Cannas in the pots in the borders, in the Green House and on the Patio with Miracle Grow. In between I wandered through the borders to do a bit of dead heading, cut back the dwarf Mock Orange to a more tidy shape, refilled the bird feeders, the bird baths, and then checked on the roses by the pond. I also decided that I'd have to move the Rose "Orange and Lemon" to a more suitable place as it is a bit hemmed in by other plants!!!