What are we doing in the garden 2024

Hubby cut the pyracantha hedge and i helped to tidy it up to put in bags to take to the recycling centre tomorrow.

 

Busy today from 6-ish this morning and now having to ask hubby to cook something for a late dinner as I am aching all over.
I had lots of plans but as it turned out to be a lovely day I made the most of it by washing 4 dog blankets and sorting out the shed to see what size skip I needed.
I don't know about anyone else- but I made up my mind that anything that hadn't been used for 2 yrs will have to go to a good home or the tip!
This was followed by checking my salad cloche to see if radishes/spring onions had finally started to swell "I wasn't sure so I pulled a few"
This is what I found:


(It makes a good display doesn't it )
Snow Queen Spring onion and Cherry Bells Radishes are a BIG NO! for next year

 

Trimming hedges, cutting back a rather rampant jasmine, because the neighbours politely invited me into their garden, to show me how it was making the garden look messy. Have seriously tidied it up. However, the neighbours were entitled to chop it off at the boundary. But I know they don't like gardening. They pay someone to do it.
Anyway, job done, just as it started to rain again.
I did have someone in to remove the front gate and replace the rotten gatepost.

 

RIP the little Nordmann fir that used to do Christmas tree duty by our front door in UK. I brought it with me over here 17 years ago and it got planted in what is laughingly referred to as a lawn. Must have been bonsaied because it never got above 2m although it always had two or three pretty cones each year. It wasn't difficult to get out, the poor thing's roots were only about 15cm under the grass. Now replaced with a Tilia mongolica which should provide a lovely scent near the terrace in spring

 

Very little as it's freezing! Still picking blueberries and beans of all types. Courgettes and artichokes may or may not still be forthcoming.

 

I have a very small greenhouse that sits on top of a storage area where slugs and snails etc live to hide and have demolished any seedlings hardening off. So I have now started a carnivorous plant collection to scare them away.

 

Spent the afternoon scything part of the "meadow". It's a good workout... especially as I tore a tendon in my rotator cuff in January. Bit achey this evening...

 

Oh - I hope that heals well for you @Liriodendron . It took a while for mine to recover enough so that I could do normal stuff reasonably well, but it had a fairly hefty tear, so it'll never be any better than it is. I don't have the full use of mine, but it's as good as it'll ever be. Impressed that you're scything though!
I did quite a lot yesterday, including lifting a few more tiny V. bon seedlings and replanting them, and I cut back the honeysuckle they were in with, and will plant that out somewhere. Took advantage of the dry weather and painted some of the masonry along the back wall, and fixed the smallest toadstool - mortared the top back on and smoothed out the little gap. Tucked it away so that the forecasted frost wouldn't undo it again.
I cut all the boundary hedging, that runs alongside the back garden, to where it meets the new front one, including tidying part of the buddleia there. Ladder needed for all that. The ivy there has lots of flower buds appearing which will be nice. Planted a few more of the small shrubby loniceras into the front hedge. The usual deadheading done too.
Not sure what I'll do today as I may not be around much. No doubt I'll find something.

 

Air frost !! 2 degrees right now!! Horizontal surfaces frozen , vertical ones have heavy dew - earliest frost for years here . 2 week forecast is pretty good so i have everything crossed that the garden can keep going a little while longer . I got out of bed to retrieve my aeoniums last night so they are ok , hopefully you are all better organised than me and wont lose any treasured plants to what i believe is a fairly widespread overnight frost.

 

@Liriodendron Painful , i can empathise as i had the same nagging problem a few years ago , hopefully its just fatigue and not aggravation of the old injury. Best wishes.

 

Good Morning gardeners!

We’re in progress with ‘Project Dig’ - we’re levelling the garden as because we didn’t have turf when we bought the house the developer refused to level or even top soil it…

Pictures of yesterdays progress attached!

 

Thanks, @fairygirl and @Robert Bowen . Scything is fairly ok because it involves using the arm below waist height... mine was a complete tear, too, sustained - would you believe - while putting on a rucksack. I remember reading about your injury on GW, Fairygirl, but you did yours in a much more spectacular manner! I believe that tendons never do heal, but other tendons and muscles take over to a large extent. I think the aching bits must be bits in the shoulder saying "hey, you never asked me to do THIS before!".

 

Many tendons can be surgically repaired and if you are young enough and actively involved in sport, or need it for your job the NHS can do the repair. However if you are over 40 and certainly over 50 they generally won't and your best bet is private treatment.

 

Yesterday fixed the greenhouse with a mallet and a spanner. Then weeding.
Today tidy up weeds and do some planting.