WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

I did something in the garden I doubt anyone else here did. I tripped and fell face-first into a gravel feature. Now I am 6ft tall and weigh 18 stone so I went down with a wallop. The hardest thing was getting back up. I am 74 and my wife is 68 so it was a bit of a pantomime. She had to end up getting my garden kneeler and I climbed up that.
Other than that we planted out Sweet Peas, pruned some Fuchsias and planted a Japanese Quince. And there is a story to that. DX Express delivered it to the wrong address and when I contacted them they said they would get the courier to recover it. He did. An delivered it to another wrong address. Luckily the lady there could read without the aid of a satnav and brought it to my door.

 

Good grief @Jocko , I hope you are all right and your beauty unspoiled!

For me, it has been a Tetris day.

Once Upon a Time there was a family who had a window in their room. And not just any window, but one that they could look through and see the things on the other side.



Things have been potted on and pricked out. Unfortunately I have a personal sensitivity against labelling, so my March batch of "surely I will know what's what" remains a neatly re-potted mystery. Toms are easy to identify, but the Ornamental Gourd mix, Turk's Turban and heritage Italian white sunflowers are so closely related that I'll just have to wait to see if they grow upwards or want to twine.

Chillies are looking good and Agastache have stood the weather well outdoors.

 

Thanks for the concern guys. I am sore and have a huge plaster on my forehead but at least taking the impact on my head I am unlikely to do much damage. Other than partly uprooting a young Lilac. It didn't do great last year and it looks like it will have to settle in all over again this year!

 

Hope you're feel better soon @Jocko .

I've been pricking out seedling today not as many as I had planned just some bishops children dahlias - petunias - sanvitalia think I've had to ageratums and verbena still to do . Seen as the weather looks warm enough the coming week I can take the majority of the plants into the GH and do a load of potting on .

I had a really quick stroll around the garden eying up some jobs and how I am going to do them without trampling alliums, I usually say you can never have to many alliums but I literally have a allium forest they going to be killing plants off soon they is that many of them .

Yesterday while it were hailing stoning I were admiring my Acer winter flame bought last spring / summer, noticed one black stem closer inspection of the stem looks very much like I've introduced Verticillium Wilt into the garden with this plant its a serious soil disease affecting a whole range of plants, any plant that susceptible can't be planted there again for at least 10 years + . I've dug the Acer about that evening unsure what to do with it , it looks fine and it stands me at quite a bit of money so reluctant to throw away . I am hoping I can keep it as a pot plant for now. I am not sure how far verticillium wilt can spread in the soil hopefully just where the Acer was .

 

Hope that you're better soon @Jocko

Not much today but watered a few plants and checking the pot marigolds for aphids.

 

That looks great.
Apart from a battered bonce and a painful ankle, I am no worse than normal. When we buried our cat, Lucy, we put her under the paved area (to stop anything trying to dig her up). Unfortunately, the slab split so I put another one on top and it was this edge I tripped over.

You can see it on the right with the small pond on top. I have currently put some planters around it with the intention, once things are planted up, of putting tubs on top of it.
Today we were watering and fertilising as well as planting out the last of my seed grown Sweet Peas.

 

Watered everything in the greenhouse and cold frames, dead headed some Daffs and sorted out a selection of plants to give one of our sons and his girlfriend.

Thankfully all my seedlings survived it out in the greenhouse during these last couple of -C nights. Phew!!

 

Busy day for me today , thought about going out doing some plant hunting at the Garden centre but couldn't be bothered its a bit nippy on the bike at these temperatures .

I've dug up one of the large veronicastrum clumps and moved the other one down to help the miscanthus memory hopefully do better its taking its time to establish, I got 4 good size plants and one small out of the clump which I'll probably give away or see if they can go into my new project.

So after wrestling with the veronicastrum I did some weeding in that border noticed I've lost a Helenium so divided one of the others and replanted , moved a hellebore I payed a fortune for into the V zone ( verticillium wilt zone ) cause they are supposed to be resistant and it wasn't happy where it was .

Round to the front garden ( last year project and I suppose this years as well ) and tidied some lavenders . I planted 3 monarda Raspberry wine if you want to grow Monardas buckets loads of organic matter and dig it in . Also planted my 4 pennisetum fairy tails need to added loads of compost and sand for these the soil isn't the best for these that don't like wet feet. I lost a sedum matrona in that border fortunately I bought one extra by accident so in that went.

On to my new Project this year the bog garden / plot I been planning since last year , its on the garage site next to well my dad garage , it not my land so its a bit of guerilla gardening its extremely wet / sodden ground . I've been tiding it up today removing some plants that somebody put in years ago dug out the brambles and cut some cotoneaster back. I dug out some ligularia - astibles - iris siberica - lythums - primula drumstick from my own garden and planted them in there . Might get some primula candelabra seeds and I just might invest in a Gunnera manicata . I've got some eupatoriums to try as well .

 

Gosh you've certainly been busy @Perki !!

 

@Perki I got tired reading about all that activity! Lots of digging and moving. Ah, you lived next door to your Dad so are appropriating more room to dig and move.

 

Not doing much at the moment.