What are we doing in the garden 2025

Its a bit like painting the Forth Bridge.

 

Apparently with advances in paint technology it now only needs painting once every 25 years.

 

Was your penny worth anything besides the original value JennyJB .
I found one a few years ago , a friend of the family who is into collecting coins checked it out for me it was valued at quite a lot more. But not in the condition that it was . Looked like it had been through a vice ,so I was no better off

 

Yes I did hear that.
Maybe @shiney could get some of that paint for his patio.

 

OK, so I'm apparently at an age where I plan to dig up that area there before lunch, and that one after. Lift a couple of paving slabs and possibly make a start with the pond.

After about ten spadefuls I decided that eating cheese puffs washed down with white wine whilst browsing JParkers' catalogue is probably a tad more realistic way to spend a Sunday.

But hey, ten spadefuls are done and the patio has slightly more merciful step now with the problematic paving slabs and a layer of bricks gone. Getting there!

 

Topped up the bottom of some snail rolls then sat them in a tray of water to soak. These were sown on 27 January


Checked the soil blocks that were sown 3 days ago and some tiny signs of germination already! From my ‘chart’ I’ve identified these as radish, lettuce, beetroot and spinach


And a few tagettes and sunflowers

Ever the hopeful and impatient gardener

 

OH thought the same thing. He found one that someone's selling on ebay for £2.95. According to 't internet, in 1914 you could buy a pint of milk, a loaf of bread or a stamp to post a letter for a penny, so £2.95 is a bit better than inflation, but it's in pretty cruddy condition and to be honest I'd rather keep it just for interest. At the moment it's sitting in half an inch of cola to see if it cleans up some.

Of course, old pennies were in circulation until 1971 so it could have been lost any time up until then so it's had plenty of time to get worn.

 

Whole day in the garden today - what a relief that it's finally nice and warm! I planted up the border I've been preparing over the winter - two peonies, geranium, Liatris spicata, Achillea, Agastache and snapdragons all went in. I just hope it all grows now!

Also checked on my sweet peas and they're looking ok - at what point should one plant them out into the bed?

 

Warm and sunny here, so spent all day in garden from 9.30 - 4.30. Painted fences , painted brick shed with masonry paint ( made dreadful mess with masonry paint , more on me than on the walls !). In between pottered about, ate lunch, drank lots of coffee and fruit teas. The downside was 2 barking dogs and man on his phone one side of me and wailing child on other side of me. I'm imagining what it will be like when warm weather gets going .

 

Its been a glorious weekend but I've done next to nothing in my garden , pruned roses and moved a few plants around in mum garden yesterday . Today I've been to the GC first time this year I've usually been multiple times by now, nothing really caught my eye just got a little petunia plug for £1.60 or whatever it was . don't know if its just my local garden centres but they don't stock dahlia's / other summer bulbs like they used to barely a wall rack.

Ordered some more seeds this evening going to try some watermelon , just so the melons are left out they'll be both probably be failures

Winter returns next week a fool's spring we've had lows of -2C marvellous

 

It's a tricky time of year, isn't it Perki? Perhaps the hardest part of gardening in 'stop/start' climates! Most years here I gamble on the last frost being in March but cold gales can do as much damage. Then we'll get a mini heatwave just when the daffs and tulips are flowering, making them very short-lived. :-) Hey ho...all part of the fun!

 

I managed a good session on Saturday, after an early eye appointment . Mostly tidying, and light forking of the long right side bed. The rain has compacted the soil again. Still need to get more mulch for that bed.
No gardening yesterday as we were on a charity walk in London, zig zagged over some of the Thames bridges and along the embankment.

Haven't got my mower out yet as the grass isn't really growing that much.

 

JennyJB
I tried vinegar , then tomato sauce, bicarb and sand rubbing it in dry then soaking it in a solution of hot water and bicarb and sand. I remember they all helped slightly but not magnificent improvement,. Ìd thought if I could clean it up at least it would improve the look. But all it did was show up all its damage!!

A lesson to be learnt here!!!!!
wouldn't recommend any of these things as a moisturiser as they say beauty is only
skin deep

 

What is soil blocking please.? I've not heard of this but I'm checking through the gardeners world episodes on iplayer after lunch. Until then I'm cleaning out the cucumber /melon greenhouse.