WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

I'll have the kettle at the ready.

 

Off out to pull up more nettles which appeared after the recent rain. Final planting of perennials I took as cuttings last Autumn. Water pots and hanging baskets.
All whilst listening to the cricket

 

Nothing planned for today. It is blowing a gale with rain not far away. I am always disappointed when I cannot get some serious work done.

 

Not happy with the way the soaker pipes work in the greenhouse. So im building a water system using speedfit plumbing and will drill holes in certain places in the pipe were i want the water to go and give a better control over watering.

But rain as currently stopped play ( cutting pipes outside the greenhouse)

 

I use this low flow stuff for all of my raised gardens and containers. This is a link to one of their catalog pages. I'm sure that many other retailers sell these all around the world.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/sea...sort=relevancy&layout=card&numberOfResults=25

The pipes and pieces are all pressure fit and believe me, they are very efficient. I use the "shrubbler" spikes in my pots.

Much easier than trying to drill through and control the flow that way.

 

Cheers for that lori…..thing is ive spent thousands this year building the decks, roofing, pergolas, greenhouse…..im just using what i already got, rather than spend even more lol

 

Nothing today went out.

 

Planted out the sweetcorn, squashes and courgettes. Cut down a load of rubbish growing in the scrub behind my garden, nettles, bindweed, oldmans beard and brambles. The sloes and damsons are looking good at the moment. Planted out a lily, a dwarf rhododendron and Salvia stolonifera.
Then watered.

 

Down to the polytunnel at 6am to water. and hunt cucumbers...before it got too hot. Then made the most of the lack of wind to weedkill the borders of the plot and a few stray bits of couch grass and bindweed that just didn't want to give up I'll win Hoed a couple of borders, but by 1pm it was 31C so gave up and headed for the pool.... Watered the terrace pots this evening. I'm keeping a close eye on them since they were dosed with my home-made Miracle-Gro. So far, so good

 

Home made Miracle Grow???

 

Yep. I had an interesting couple of hours in the droguerie in Agen, buying little brown paper packets of phosphate of this and sulphate of that and the other Had to improvise on the basic nitrogen and potassium, and the sulphate of iron isn't very soluble, but on the whole it worked OK. At least, it didn't explode, fizz or melt anything It's strong, though, so a little will go a long way! Just need to figure out how to stop the cats drinking out of the 'dosed' watering cans, now. If you read of sightings of huge sabre-toothed tigers in SW France, that'll be them

 

Cut the grass, tied Toms up (they had a rough start of life with us being away the first half of May- they survived but started to perform just now) and Made Plans.

I want to raise the water level of my little pond so considered various wall systems and googled preformed ones. I think my Plan of a chicken wire structure to form the edges and the bird paddling area is perfect, what could possibly go wrong?