WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

Continue with the chopping, chucking and taking cuttings....The 3C's... Seed harvesting too has begun. Why??

Why I take so many cuttings is a mystery to me, most of the pots I'm chucking are unrecognizable brown ,dead cuttings from last year!!

Don't get me started on seed harvesting!!!.

I have rarely used any of my own seeds...ever!!

I just can't resist both.......I need help.

 

Seed saving can get compulsive.

Every few years I throw out thousands of marrow, tomato, sweet pea, runner bean, french bean, parsley, chard, pumpkin, etc. seeds, then start saving again.

(Unused, saved wildflower seeds get used for guerrilla gardening)

 

Took the horticultural fleece off the blueberry plants and picked the rest of the berries off them. Picked the last of the gooseberries but the wasps are out so no more, but got a lot anyway.

 

I cut out the old raspberry canes. I want to move the new ones but that will have to wait until the autumn.

 

Today, as it was so lovely and sunny this morning (not now, it's very wet), I decided to mow the lawns as they were in need of doing. Of course, this wet and warm weather that has followed will mean the grass will be almost as long again as before I cut it! Oh, the joys if gardening.

 

Did a bit of deadheading and picked some redcurrants.

 

I potted up some Heliotrope seedlings, and the only two Basil seeds to germinate, I also repotted some Hoya cuttings that were given to me by a friend.
I planted several rooted cuttings of Impatiens niamniamensis, that were still in water, I have some Iresine and Tradescantia zebrina cuttings also in water and ready for potting up when I can get around to it. Their roots are becoming tangled up.
Also watered lots of pots and tubs, everything is bone dry.

 

Picked some more redcurrants, but can't pick anymore haven't got anymore room in the freezer.

 

Not actually IN the garden but went to the Garden Center and bought 8 terracotta pots in different sizes and 6 saucers in different sizes. Couldn't go there without getting something pretty so I go two Pelargoniums zonale, one Portulaca single and one Portulaca double. I resisted the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis and they didn't have any Mandevilla or would have got one. I do have one growing where I don't want it so will have to move it.

 

Not doing anything in the garden today, other than watering the tomatoes in the mini greenhouse earlier this morning, as it is now raining heavily. I'm glad I got the grass cut on Wednesday as we are in for a few very soggy days if the forecast is to be believed. I sometimes wish I had the space for either a potting shed or proper sized greenhouse then I could be busy doing garden related things even in inclement weather. Oh well, never mind.

 

Did a bit of weeding and in that space planted 3 hardy fuchsias, they're by the lupins so when the lupins have finished the fuchsias will take their place.