WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

It was quite mild here today and I've noticed the birds have found their voices over the last week or so. An early Spring perhaps?

I dug out a clump of Kniphofia that was giving me concern tucked into an 'L' shaped corner of the house. They were beside a cable that comes out of the house wall so some careful digging took place. I split them up, replanted half in the slowly developing border in the front garden and offered the rest to my neighbour - gratefully accepted.

I then forked/weeded the bed they came from and split a Geranium and another plant whose name won't come to mind right now. That's so annoying!

 

Yes, the plan is to remove the stumps myself. I'm not quite sure when that will be though. The place I rented a stump grinder from a few years ago has closed down. The nearest place is now a 60 mile each way drive away. Not having Winter tyres on the trailer also means I must wait until April before I can legally use it to transport the machine.

No worries though, as I'll be starting to shred all the cuttings today if the weather holds.

When I first moved to this country, -6C was cold.Now, my thoughts are as yours, its quite balmy. Funny how we adapt to the cold, isnt it?

 

Nothing until next Tuesday when I can start to bend a bit, but not to over do it.


I'm itching to start some seeds.

 

Finished washing the GH today , I cut the ivy back yesterday off the GH and trimmed the Honeysuckle and pycanthia that are around the GH, I shredded them as well .

If you don't mind me asking @shiney but how long have you lived in your property ? Was it just a field when you moved in .

 

My wife has had a hankering for a garden mirror. She ordered one a couple of days ago and today it arrived. I mounted it on the rear wall of my workshop/potting shed.



I also received a dozen Foxglove jumbo plug plants today so we planted them out. I then fitted a gate closer to the front gate as my wife gets annoyed whenever someone leaves it open. She always worries about dogs wandering in, though the only dogs I see around here are all on leads.

 

I do like the mirror @Jocko , but please be aware that birds will get confused and attempt to fly through it, sadly not all will survive . For that reason I would never have one.

 

Sowed some more seeds two lots of Coleus Chocolate mint and Scarlet wizard, also some Lisianthus hoping to do better with them this year and Cobaea purple.

My Ensete Maurelii has set of growing way to early its a bit pale at the moment . Some how it always seem to have aphids on it even though it bagged up and put in a cupboard, must be on it when I store it .

 

Another lovely dry and sunny day so I got the hoe out and made a start to the shrub border, while my other half painted a couple of planters. She finds the usual planter colours a bit boring but I keep telling her, "You don't want the planter competing with the flowers".

 

@Jocko maybe it is different over there as far as planters go because you have a longer season than we do but I'm like your wife. I like colour. I painted all of my hanging pots in bright colours- yellow and turquoise/teal. The colours are a cheerful sight until the flowers get going and then the combination of paint and nature really put on a pleasing display.

I only brought up a coleus from the cellar. it needed a bit of trimming and tidying. And as usual, filled the capillary water trough.

 

It's not really 'in the garden' but I've ordered 4 step over fruit trees - 1 pear and 3 apples - to create an edge along a path. Bare root and shipping from the UK - so hopefully will be with me soon.

Added: I meant to ask - anyone with any tips here - I'm all ears! The objective is to make a nice looking edge to a path / vegetable bed, with production! I'm thinking I'll dig a big hole, get some good compost down in the bottom and then water them in.

I've got 2 vines to plant too, and a mate said I should put a bowl of offal at the bottom of the hole when I plant them. Not sure I'm up for that one!

 

It is the old way to provide iron. Pelletised chicken manure does the same thing.

 

The last two garden days have been the same for me. Coarse shredding the trees I felled at the beginning of this week. I now have an enforced 4 day minimum rest from the garden.

 

I haven't done anything outside for several months, but today I swept the patio