WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

Really sunny today so watered everything in the greenhouse, sowed a few more tomato seeds because 14 is just not enough, looked at my packets of sunflowers and chose the lucky 6 for this year ready to sow soon and checked dahlias for growth, bringing out the largest ones for some air on the lawn. Counted dahlias. 188 tubers in pots and another 21 small pots with bits from the tubers. Nearly all are shooting.

 

What a wonderful display you'll have in the summer when your Dahlias & Sunflowers burst into flower, @Dahlia Queen

 

I'm back to gardening after a few days spring cleaning! Today I spent an hour pricking out some Calendula seedling into some plug plant trays from the Pansies last autumn.

So here are a couple of before & after shots:
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Hope so @Balc, I have cosmos, sweet peas, scabious, morning glory, calendula, Shasta daisy, delphiniums, zinnias and more sown in the greenhouse. Can’t stop sowing flowers to squeeze in borders and pots. Then there’s the wildflowers sown in my wild area too. Love sowing seeds! Your calendula look good, so organised and neat too.

 

Pleased to hear that you are feeling better Shiney.

Nothing today it's raining again, it's either raining or i haven't got the time to do anything.

 

Having bought some leek seed, some of these will be sown. Prick out some more peppers and tomatoes. Sow sweetcorn, runner and French beans, plant up germinated peas.
Check everything else in the greenhouse water as required.

 

Hard pruned my Hibiscus by one third, then fed Hibiscus, Lilies, Fuchsia & Clematis.

 

Just taken down the plastic "fencing" I put round the pond in winter to deter herons.
There has been one around most days but I get fed up with the look of it so its had to go, I'll put some pots around the pond with leafy plants in for the summer but its still cold so I'm hoping for the best at the moment.
Shotgun at the ready.

 

Dead heading my spent Daffodils, that will take a few hours.

 

Hi,

Just enjoying a mug of tea and lump of cherry cake before resuming hostilities.

What I'm doing now started last March when terrific wind damaged our huge crack willow tree which sure lived up to its name; fed up of tree work in dire weather conditions I took down the entire willow but also another 14 very tall trees and disposed of them enjoying myself working between sleet and sunshine with plenty of gusty wind.

The last couple of weeks I've been digging up eight of the stumps which were located in the middle of the garden intending to create a third wildflower meadow; as usual our Yorkshire weather dictates progress although a couple of days ago I was working in full waterproofs as the rain came down but eventually quit it being too dangerous trying to stand upright on the steep slope buffeted by the wind and tools slippery due to being wet.


The last tree to be felled it being over 65' tall. It sure opened up a lot of sky.


Just two of the stumps so big I had to cut them up in order to move them but they were still very heavy and awkward; the middle of the garden looks like we've got giant moles as pets.
Some of the stumps now behind the garden hut out of the way; I'll deal with these when or if the sun comes out. All done entirely on my own just enjoying a bit of light gardening. Last two stumps yet to get out then I can start on the many roots before digging over with spade.

Mug of tea finished and cake scoffed so I'd better get off my backside; one 20" petrol chainsaw serviced and chain sharpened yesterday the second 20" chainsaw I'll service today also lots of weeding to do in our front garden; I've been retired 22 years and still wonder what retirement should be like.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

Spotted some horrid ground elder in border full of tulips so will need to tiptoe through the tulips to dig it out. Not my favourite task! Then sowing my sunflowers and poppies which is a much nicer job. And it’s major muck out in chicken coop and their 3 joined runs which is preferable to the ground elder job!