WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

I find it strange that you use Kilometers but still use Fahrenheit, I use centigrade, not Celsius and use miles..

 

@pete the Fahrenheit is my personal choice and I have all of my weather settings default to that on both web sites and my little in house system with remotes outside and in the greenhouses.

I think and do measurements for personal stuff wood lengths or fabric cutting, in imperial.

All of our road signage is in Kilometers and they refuse to change that for me..

These are Canadian flip flops if anyone was wondering what the difference was betwixt yours n ours.

 

I know it’s a moan, and should probably go on the wall of moan, but it is garden related, and apologies to any members owning of one, but this won’t be yours.

Cats, specifically neighbourhood cats, even more specifically, big white, hardly camouflaged ugly brutes of cats. Really don’t mind cats as long as they don’t interfere with the balance of nature in the garden. It’s been around for a few weeks and has sussed out a way of avoiding the cat sensor by skulking along the foot of the back wall away from the sensor. Am sure the birds are just looking at it, laughing their beaks off and saying, yup, you ain’t fooling anyone when it’s not snowing.

Fair enough though, nesting season is a few weeks away, and time to get another sensor to cover the wall area. Today though, the damage it had done to the trunk of the lilac tree became apparent. Obviously using it as a climbing point for up and over.



So chicken-wired the trunk area and layered some very prickly holly leaf fall on the tread area. That should see to the nuisance, without further measures being deployed, hopefully.

 

It was too cold to do anything but I checked my seedlings in the potting shed. After 4 days since sowing the Morning Glory are about 3" tall. I have now switched off their heat mat and in a few days, I will move them to my cold frame.

 

It’s always the same when you’re rushing to get everything done before daylight disappears. So, checking the greenhouse, and oh, these guys need a bit of watering, I’ll do a seaweed mix for them. Better use the kitchen tap as the outside stuff is still frozen.

The seaweed tea is horrible stuff at the best of times, inside, it just lingers, and lingers. No probs though, just get it done. Make the mix, puts down can on wooden kitchen floor, and oh, better get the blackbird his apple at the same time. Went to fridge to get the apple, blindspotting the can on the way back. There’s this split second when you realise the muppetry of what you’ve done. Ok, deal with the fallout. Cue Karcher vac running out of charge after a few seconds, and a frantic old school towelling of the mess, and many self deprecating expletives.

I’ll live with the smell for a while, I’ll live with the muppetry of it all until the whatever next time. Plants watered, blackbird fed. All’s well that….

 

I cleared/weeded along my flint wall and covered it with Black plastic to stop the weeds.
While digging I found a very large Potato that I had missed last year; this was made into chips. Tasted very nice with double Eggs.

 

Are you sure that would be a good move, I only ask because I always find morning glory to be pretty tender.

 

I don't know. I am always open to advice. I have never grown Morning Glory before. It just seemed to get so leggy so quickly despite the LED grow lights.

 

I'm 6 to 8 weeks away from sowing Morning Glory, they grow very quickly once germinated.
They always look a bit on the leggy side even in the greenhouse as they are climbers and want to go up.

 

Yeah, I go along with Nigel, I'd say you sowed them way too early, they grow fast in warm conditions but might well just curl up and die below 10c, or stop growing at the very least.

 

I just started them when it said on the packet. I'll see how they go and if they die off I will sow some more in 6 to 8 weeks.

 

Seed packets have a lot to answer for, the instructions are rarely good.

 

Seed packet instructions tend to be one size fits all as they have to cover the UK from top to bottom etc.
Smaller seed companies selling more unusual seed do tend to be better with instructions, but then their seeds are more expensive and in smaller amounts.
Over the years I have made any number of mistakes with timings of sowing or planting out. Other years I have simply been caught out by the weather; such as a cold spell a fortnight after putting the tender annuals in the ground.

 

Been up to the greenhouse watered a few things, sprayed the aphids with an organic insecticide.
Checked seed trays and pansies, poppy seed have germinated.