WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

Finished weeding, dividing, re-homing plants in the big border this afternoon.
Then had to do an emergency rescue of my Heuchera cuttings after discovering vine weevil grubs!!! One had to be chucked all the others were given a bath and a soak and then replanted, so it's fingers crossed time once more.

 

I've definitely been bitten by something lol - must be the gardening bug as its too early for aphids :D

Fingers crossed for you!


Some shady plants I'd ordered arrived today (plants that like shade, that is, not disreputable ones) - a panda face ginger, two anemones, a bloodroot and a "Jurassic Gold" fern (I do hope this doesn't attract velociraptors to the garden, I have enough trouble with squirrels). All now planted up and hopefully happy.

Hope everyone else had a good day

 

Finished the greenhouse base



It's been measured and checked within an inch of it's life but I'm still a bit paranoid that they'll turn up to install the greenhouse and find it doesn't fit for some reason

The step down on the left is going to be a small side terrace for the coldframe and a couple of waterbutts; it needs filling and then topping with gravel, but no rush on that as it's a few weeks before they can put the greenhouse in anyway.

 

Nothing today it's been too cold. Was going to help hubby with cutting the grass but he decided not to.

 

Finished the potting shed today.

These fixings are left over - the suppliers always throw in a few extra don't they?

 

Trained the rose around the arch and same for the wisteria. Tidied up in the greenhouse again and got it ready for me to get another panel from the Anderson shelter in there so I can paint it tomorrow and it will be warm enough to dry.

Bought a couple of plant pots today and will pot some bits up for my mums birthday.

 

I tootled around in the glasshouse but not sure that I was very productive! Took cuttings of banksia ericifolia which is nearly in flower and put them in rockwool cubes. I've failed dismally before with getting any to take... Looked around for any more broad beans - the mice stole my first batch, and I found they had hidden some of them in a protea pot and they were sprouting! So I dug them out and put them outside. Sadly no more have turned up in other pots.

 

I had a busy day today by my standards - I dug a bed along the back fence which turned out to be more complicated than I thought when I found and excavated a dirty great tree root. After I tried some shears that I think were older than I am and broke them (oops) I used the scientific method of attacking the bits I could get at with a set of giant secaturs and yoinking until either the root gave or I fell over. It was a long, hard battle, I think I invented a couple of entirely new swear words and the efficiency with which it was fought was probably on par with Black Adder Goes Forth, but the important thing is that I won!

By this point the sun was setting so I hurriedly planted 3 bareroot climbing roses and two perportedly hardy passifloras with the help of the dog (first time he's ever dug a hole that's been useful). I finished off by shoving in some "budget edging" - I half burried a couple of feather boards from the old fence I had lying about along the border. I'll tidy that up tomorrow when I can see. I've probably put too much in too close together but fingers crossed the bare trellis I had put up last year that's been tormenting me all winter will be less empty soon

Best wishes to everyone and their gardens

 

Not much in the garden today apart from checking the seedlings in the greenhouse and tying in the new shoots on the Clematis

@clanless of course they do.... I always see it as a job well done whenever I have leftovers from a flat pack (resourceful) So well done!

 

I sowed some Kohrabi, Turnip (Snowball and Purple Milan Top), Radish (Icicle and French Breakfast) and Dahlia Bishops Children.
Rusty

 

Nothing at the moment it's raining.

 

As before....getting the garden all ship shape for.....Spring!!!!

Probably also dodging the showers here too!!