WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

MY mum wants some , I usually make crumbles with them but if I can be bothered I may branch out to something else or freeze them which I've not done before. I'll give some to some of the neighbours as well.

 

We love crumbles.

 

I met Marion and Barry and we went to Geoffrey's. I gave Geoffrey some tulip bulbs and i planted them in his garden. Showed Marion how to dig up forget me nots with enough roots to plant in front of the tulips.

 

Autumn jobs v.2.

Amusingly, our neighbourhood got together for a synchronised lawn mowing at 3pm. It was like one of those fashionable flash mobs, (This is a good one, enjoy! ) with us all getting alerted by the sound and the joining in one after another.

I also harvested a huge load of Cosmos for indoors vases, I dislike cutting flowers but if the night brings a nasty turn I will curse myself for leaving them out to die. The vases look lovely

Plucked some Frogbits out of the pond into a bowl, it's a nice plant but curls up unexpectedly sinking into the bottom to overwinter just to be scooped up with the leaf debris and never to be seen again, until the next spring online purchase of replacements

Swept around and fitted the grow lights over the kitchen shelving (after cleaning the plants and the shelving of dust and whatnots, Good Girl Me ) and the hatchery in the living room where Semprevivums, quite nice Ice plants and Bamboos have just germinated.

That's the season nearly done for me, now it's finger tapping time until the first proper seed sowing starts after Christmas

 

Hi,

First frost this morning; warm weather over now until next June?

Thanks for the flash mob link @Selleri we've watched lots of these. This is also excellent;



Well we need something to watch during winter when we can't get into the garden.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

Fab video @Selleri .

 

Great video @Selleri

 

able to thin out a huge amount of hardy geraniums for two lovely gardeners to take to their home. about 6 boxes of the plant.

 

You're still going strong and enjoying it @shiney that's all that matters .

I've had one of them sunday unsure what to do with myself , I did go out with the intention to make another box for overwintering dahlia tubers in , could I find that piece of wood I'd need to do the project kind of just strolled around until I ended up in the GH . Picked the last of the Tomatoes and got rid of the plants. It froze last night even though the forecast had changed to lows of 2C but everything was white this morning , all the dahlia not near the house have been blackened but not totally it a bit harder to tell with the dark leaf variety's , I'll know by tomorrow whether I'll lift them are persevere with them.

Planted a few beech trees for next doors hedge , she popped round later with a ice cream can't complain

 

Had a day off today...to go to a rare plant fair Pure happiness.....
Then, the cerise sur le gâteau, stopped off at the big garden centre in Agen to discover that it was 15% off day.
Managed to get the soft fruit plants in (strawberries, raspberries and kiwi fruit) before it got dark. I've got a couple of days before the rain arrives to plant all the ornamentals

 

Well don't hold us in suspense @noisette47 what you get ?

 

Dug up all the Tigridia's and hung them up to dry off before storing for the Winter.
Dug up, despite still having loads of blooms sadly , some Cosmos Purity and Zinnias as a necessity because my Wallflowers just had to go in the ground. These are to replace a few of my old ones that were either too old or had succumbed to last year's cold Winter..

Bagged up ( well enveloped up really) some more harvested dried seeds

Potted up the first of the Fuchsias for overwintering.

Emptied out a couple of spent wall baskets.

 

I'll check the labels and post in the Purchases thread