What are we doing in the garden 2024

Cut up the large branch that fell earlier in the week, thinner bits to the shredding pile, thicker bits stacked on side of garden to dry off until summer then somebody will take for their logburner. Pruned the damaged Azara microphylla and a couple of Cornus. Sunshine was lovely and had Radio 4 and birds for company.
Had a mooch round to see that a large number of trees, shrubs and perennials are showing signs of growth from new foliage to swollen buds. Too soon to say if the wet winter has caused major problems with anything.
Still very wet underfoot.

 

I am same fed up weather looks to be drier next week so hopefully I can get some planting done . I am expecting a bareroot rose delivery late this afternoon probably to late for me to do anything with, just moved some pots off the raised planter I may just plonk them in for now.

Edit - they have just turned up and annoyingly I've just took my boots off but on cue its started to rain , i'll go out later on heel them in . I got for myself ( pergola ) Iceburg and Mary Delany and a few for some clients - Bring me sunshine - Gabriel oak - Penelope livery the problem is sometimes I want them for myself

 

The problem is, I'm here sitting on my hands when I know full well in a month or so, if the weather improves, I'll be trying to do everything all at once.

Need to make a start on the allotment but its going to need a couple of dry weeks before I can even think of doing much over there.

 

First day after many rainy days. Visited Wessex Orchid Society show at Portchester. Then popped out to start preparing greenhouse for adding compost from the composter. This year I added raised sideboards for beds. Plastic ones, will see how they last. I chopped down phacelia, that overwintered, added crushed eggshells (more for a soil structure) and some freshly cut grass. Tomorrow to add some thrichoderma and thick layer of compost on top. Can plant then spring onions and sow some radishes and lettuces.

 

Amazingly it was dry enough for me to dig and start prepping a bed for my broad beans! I dig out the weeds, chucked compost from last year's tomato pots on it, raked it over, and I now have a small bit of tidy garden again. Just as well, because my broad beans are keen to get out of their little modules. And then it started raining again...

 

Weeding where the grounds dry enough not to be damaged too much.

 

Fantastic weather here today, finally.
I emptied my composter into a greenhouse beds.
Now onions planted, need to sow lettuces, radishes and herbs, and then just waiting for tomato plantlets. Put the metal netting under my composter now and moved unrotted stuff back, lovely to see worms there.

 

Had a potter around today in the garden lawn is still squelching so nothing to adventurous . Thrown out all the pelargoniums in the gh they haven't made it through winter, bit of a tidy round moving pots etc . Painted a few patches on the fence and a archway .

And I've pulled out all the stone from behind the shed for inspection, I want to make some steps up into the back garden. Its a grass slope with stepping stones at the moment which isn't ideal especially when I am carrying trays of seeding from the GH to the house.

 

@Alisa your greenhouse is so tidy! I'm not showing mine!
Dug over some more of veg area, and removed myrtus ugni that finally died - due to previous winter. Fortunately I have rooted cuttings.
Took out old canes of summer raspberries. I wish I'd got autumn ones, then I could just cut everything down. But they do crop well.

 

I bought three large plastic pots about the size of half barrels a couple of months ago. Plastic because everything else, due to the climate here, rots, rusts or gets damaged by frost.

The pots are for three roses that deer are determined to completely devour. One was still in the ground, the other two need to be potted on since digging those out the year before last. In pots I can give them some protection.

Today I tackled the one to be dug up. It was determined to stay put, the roots having spread quite a bit but they eventually gave way. It took two barrow loads of soil, compost and blood, fish and bone mixture to fill the pot.

 

Potted up 25 more gladioli and labeled them.

 

• Tided and cleared the back of the garden it was full of leaves and branches off the oak tree back of my fence looks beautiful in the summer but a nightmare in autunm and winter, planted 5 bushes by the fence and potted a indoor geranium
  I,ve still alot to do but l do some tomorrow lm exhausted