What are we doing in the garden 2024

As it is finally (mostly) dry enough to walk on the lawn, I have been out and fed and weeded the left and back border. Managed to do some of the right hand side as well bit the bottom north facing section is still too wet. It does all look better for it though!

In other news, I saw two adult vine weevils today surely it is too early!!

 

More done today -nearly finished now. One planter to go...

 

Thanks for the ideas for rat control in compost bins, I'll give them some thought.

 

Got out in the garden at 3.30 this afternoon and it was really warm. Weeded over all the flower beds-levelled some of the border off as it was a bit higgledy piggledy as the garden isn’t level and I’d created new beds last year. Used the excess soil to fill up the bottom of a deep raised bed.

Started digging out a trench ready to put a sleeper border in. I was out til 9pm as I have got lights on the front of the summerhouse now

Shattered and back hurts

 

What a beautiful day it was yesterday. 19C, sunshine, OH and I couldn't wait to come home from essential shopping.
At 4, I watered the greenhouse plants which start now slightly to grow, and filled the car with stuff that comes to the tip this morning before we are heading to Hidcote .
OH loves the idea of growing veggies and herbs, and started preparing the veggie trog and herb trog. Okay, I had to do the hard work of sieving the compost, but never mind knowing this was my last contribution to that corner.
Finished at 6 and I could feel that I had done the hard work. I'm still not used to gardening work as it was until my accident last September. But it's getting better.

 

Hope they do well for you @Februarysgirl - I'll have to look mine out and see how much room I have to sow them just now.
I'd re used some of last year's compost mix they were growing in for sowing lettuce indoors, and a seedling popped up in that, so it's now in a little pot of it's own and doing well.

Hope you've recovered @Snorky85 !

 

I've just been for an early walk down the garden and I gave some Clematises the 'Chelsea Chop' because they were almost as tall as me already. Maybe they'll get another chop if they become too tall again. I don't want them becoming a tangle at the top of the trellises and flopping over looking all horrible.

 

Thanks for that info @shiney , we managed to get the stuff on yesterday and it stayed dry so we're hopeful

 

Well, we had dry weather yesterday but the forecast wall to wall sunshine didn’t appear at all. Fingers crossed for today. It was lovely and mild and DRY all day - wow
Another day in the garden planned, moving some more shrubs and a climbing rose today. I managed to wrangle it off its existing arch yesterday with no damage done so fingers crossed for a painless move for me and the rose

 

@Snorky85 I read that as 'sleepy border' and thought, 'yep, you'll need that'.

@Michael Hewett flopping over in a big tangle like my clematis..
Lol! It's on my list of 'build up to it' as I have to get ladders out to reach mine.

 

I cut them low and tugged the stems until they came off the trellises, but those are only about 6 ft anyway. Good luck with yours, be careful up that ladder

 

A quick foray into the garden this morning before the rain started, in dressing gown & wellies, to take the fleece off the dahlia seedlings in the "blow away". They'd just spent their first night off the study windowsill. It's considerably colder in the grow house, but they look all right. Also did a trawl round the pots of seedlings & young plants in there, and removed a further 4 slugs and a snail, to go with the 5 slugs I found last night. All small. I have a nasty suspicion that there may have been slug eggs in the compost...

 

I have made a list of things that need doing, under the headings "urgent", "very urgent" and "extremely urgent"! It's that time of yr! Plus the awful weather means everything that might have been done in March is still waiting.