WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

Nothing today it's been raining and I've got something else to do.

 

I found 3 Jersey Royal Potatoes that had started to shoot, so I've put them in a Potato bag with one layer of compost, one layer of grassing cuttings. I will fleece and move to a growhouse if it gets too cold.

 

Only if you changed the bulb!!

 

Watered the hanging baskets. Waiting for next week to plant the wallflowers, haven't got time before then.

 

I've been cutting back the Potato Tops which have gone Brown and crispy.

Now this got me thinking, we put Green & Brown in our compost bins, what are the Potato tops classed as please?

 

Trimming lavender hedges. I don't remember planting 20kms of the damned things.....At least the wasps didn't get me this time

 

I think that it would be brown if they've gone dry and brown.

 

Phew! Finished sorting out the big herb planter, I have enough exiting seeds to start anew next spring. However, I did divide and pot up some Marjoram and Chives, a potful into the kitchen and a potful to stay out over the winter each. They are such good varieties that should the seedlings fail, hopefully these will romp on.

Gently walked a struggling Box in a pot into Box heaven, aka the brown bin. Rescued the self- spored fern into a pot.

The Big Plan is to liberate enough pots to have a stunning spring bulb display. So far I have cleared five big pots for the Daffs and Tulips, and am considering some more containing leftover plants that at the moment are trying to look very innocent and full of potential

Sowed some hardy annuals (free seeds) and uncharacteristically labelled the bowl. Boldly binned the seed bag and now I have no idea whatsoever what I'm growing. Hopefully the scribble on the bowl will last long enough for me to google it. I have never sowed hardy annuals in autumn but it sort of makes sense, I can't prepare a seedbed "where they are to flower" and windowsills are limited so I'll give it a go. Larkspur and something starting with A are done.

Cut the grass and tasked The Teenager to cut off the tomato leaves. She was snip-snip-snipping and hum-hum-humming away in the gentle evening sun. Life is good

 

Did some deadheading and watered the hanging baskets.

 

I've done nothing in the garden for a while except cut bunches of Sweet Peas. Sometimes I cut two bunches a day, they're the best ones I've had for a number of years