WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

Good on you @shiney

Hope you'll feel out of pain soon @Perki

 

thanks Michael its not going well though I haven't slept most of the week and barely at all for the past two days 10mins here and there . Managed to get hold of an out of hours GP for some stronger pain meds

 

So sorry to hear that you're still not well @Perki

 

Trimmed back the Lavender this morning and checked on a particular Dahlia that the blackfly seem to love! No sooner than I've turned my back from cleaning them off...they're back with reinforcements!!!

 

Have you got any ants there as well?

 

Yes loads, they farm the pesky critters.

Our ground is so very dry I think all the ants are above ground and on all our plants!!

 

Not doing much in the garden, Sprayed a couple of climbing roses with fungicide. They have the start of Powdery Mildew.

 

You could put down some polenta or it's called cornmeal, the ants will eat it and take it to the nest and it will kill them.

 

Had a bonfire yesterday, first time in years I've had the bare ground to burn anything, but as half the the veg plot is empty and too dry to sow green manure. Got rid of the pile of stuff I was going to shred and had was bone dry. Kept it small and made sure it was out before calling it a day.

 

Potted on 2 chilli plants and some young foxglove plants, wasn't going to do the foxgloves but i was a bit late sowing them and some of them are big enough.

 

We were out preparing planters for the imminent arrival of our spring bulbs. Moved some plants between planters because the boss likes to have her planters "matching".

 

I've been repotting some cuttings - Spider plants and cacti, succulents, more succulents ... I'm running out of room for them all.

 

My spring bulbs arrived yesterday, i took the bags of bulbs out of the box and put them on trays and left them in the garage until I'm ready to plant them.

 

@Perki Hope you get better soon. When I was 70 I was offered a vaccine injection for Shingles which I had done. This year my wife was also offered the injection which she had done as well. Before I was offered the injection I had no idea there was one!