WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

That's a good idea @Retired, you never know what will come up.

 

A good job well done, @Retired, we are all getting on a bit & have to modify our workload! I'll be 73 in a couple of weeks & have also started to rein in the heavy work on the balcony! I got rid of 3 long plastic troughs I had on the balcony for 21 years! They were backbreaking, I mean that literally! Changing the compost twice a year, putting in seasonal bedding & bulbs had got too much for me now! I miss them but they had to go anyway as they had started breaking up which made changing the compost more & more difficult in the narrow confines of a 1m wide balcony!

 

Today we rescued another hedgehog. It was snuffling about the back garden, midmorning, so the boss picked it up and we put it in a huge empty planter. After feeding and watering it (it ate more than our cats do) I phoned the SSPCA. A chap came out to pick it up at lunchtime. He checked it over and said it had an injured back leg so it will be off for care and recuperation at the Scottish Wildlife Centre. That is the second one we have rescued this past 12 months.

 

I think a small greenhouse would look good there.

 

As it's been mostly pouring with rain today I've just been squashed up in the remaining miniscule area in the greenhouse potting a few more trays up.

So much water about, our side lawn is now a swamp!! I drained one of the two connected water butts as they were overflowing.I expect the other 4 were too but I wasn't up for dashing around the whole garden getting soaked. The greenhouse ones were the only ones I was prepared to do ,I fitted the length of hose onto one of the taps and ran it off under the back hedging.....still got soaked enough!!

 

Planted my newly bought Lewisia and Saxifraga with some Sedum and Semprevivum into a rather pretentious looking bowl planter. Gravel, artfully arranged stones and the lot...

 

Nothing today it's raining and i went to see my friend Marion.

 

I started my morning by chopping branches from a tree trying to invade and steal the sunshine from my solar panels. I was wearing one of my more attractive pairs of jammies but since it was only 6 a.m. , there was no one around to appreciate my garb.

Rearranging netting to block rabbit munching on my few veggies was surprisingly easy. I'm usually struggling with tangled cords but this time, things went smoothly.

I made a new wiring harness for a couple of solar panels that I had rehung yesterday and I now will be able to fully utilize the free energy.

Potted up three yellow cannas which number two took home. Put 5 mature cannas on the front porch. 3 are red and the last two are 2 yellow.

Then number one son and family came by and two hours later, number two son and his family came by. Luckily I had just finished making a double batch each of hot pepper buns and plain ones so that I had enough to share with both families, my own bread box and three neighbours.

And the rest was just brain work. Trying to figure out what I need to do next without chancing the lives of my seedlings. The brain did not cooperate so there shall be more pondering..

 

Wow- what were you crowned for?

 

Finally the sun found us just after lunch and it's been beautifully warm.
I deadheaded all the fading Hellibores, leaving just one or two blooms on that had fat seed pods on them.

Repotted some houseplants a couple are very poorly looking so .

Cut back ( for what it's worth) a bit more of my Dad's very dead looking Lemon Tree. I saw on an earlier Gardeners World prog. that Monty's looks as bad as mine....so I'm in good company.

Also chopped a bit more of the Avocado???? ....umm.......... Stick, for want of a better word.

Too embarrassingly awful to post pics.....I might post a before and after if they miraculously survive.