WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

Thanks, i still measure things in ft and Inc.

 

Today I have planted potatoes and sown carrots outdoors in a pot; I’ve potted on sunflowers, kale, purple broccoli and basil. I have sown courgettes, peas, beetroot, rocket and cabbage in little pots to germinate indoors. I’ve transplanted little lettuce leaf seedlings into my new raised beds. I also potted up a little rhododendron and a couple of colourful daisy like plants I’ve forgotten the name of.

This is the first year I’m trying to grow a proper range of vegetables. I know I’m rather late planting a lot of it but I have nothing to lose in trying I hope!

 

Thank you Vicky .

 

Done quite a bit in the garden this week verticut the lawn Tuesday to attack the poa anna grass and planted out some perennials.

Today I've been emptying more pots failed cutting / division etc its starting to look a lot tidier round the plant stash areas now . Planted out some verbascums and a few other plants to try and dwindle the plant stash .
While I were round in the front garden planting the verbascums and pulling out weeds and sycamores seedling I come across this little fella a Variegated sycamore, out of the 10s of thousands of syamore seedling I've seen this spring this is the only variegated one I've seen so potted it up and I am keeping it for now.


Also I bought myself another toy today Hayter Harrier 48pro, its not new and I 've had to do a service on it. Need to get some new letters for the front its really irritating me

 

Top dressing my pots, digging out a dishevelled Euonymus Green Spire and it's deep and widely spread root system, squishing and then using pressurised hand sprayer to remove blackfly from my potted acers. Usually have to do it a couple of times early in its new growth spurt but this year the ants are farming them so it's a bigger job than usual. Removing more sycamore seedlings that keep sprouting up all over the place.

 

@Perki ,that little sycamore reminds me of one I found like that many years ago.
It's quite a big tree now and I have to give it a cut back most winters.

 

I had some peat free that just stayed sopping wet and lost a couple of things because of it as they just rotted in their pots with being so wet all winter. I hadn't realised until it was too late. It was heavy, full of wetness and so very dense. I've mixed what I still had in bags with another enriched peat free which is a much drier consistency, stocked up on vermiculite, sand and grit to make what I'm hoping will be much better a much more plant friendly mix!

 

Today was more weeding and then further grass cutting. I have had to step up my normal pain medicine from Paracetamol to Paracetamol with dihydrocodeine!

 

Hi,

Last March I felled 15 very tall trees; this March I once again worked myself to a standstill many days digging up eight huge stumps together with their roots creating a third meadow this in the middle of the mountain.

No sooner had I broadcast the wildflower seeds down swooped the birds pigeons in particular to enjoy a good feed; then every neighbours cat from miles around visited enjoying the new rotavated soil to dig holes leaving little present; about an hour ago as I did the dishes looking up the mountain I saw a big crow in the new meadow shaking its head from side to side with it's beak in the soft soil throwing out lots of tiny wildflower seedlings; if this carries on I might end up on national news for using a machine gun in a private garden. My wife and I are animal lovers preferring animals to people but I'm sick.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

That's annoying @Retired ...

I've been cutting back brambles coming in from next door, and cutting branches off a beech tree they've planted on the boundary and which is going to become enormous in a short time
and I've also been cutting back my Akebia which has climbed to the top of said Beech tree and has been full of flowers.
My wheely bin is almost full !

 

I have the opposite problem @Michael Hewett . None of my neighbours, either side or behind have ever planted anything! So any privacy at the boundary on each side is from shrubs I have planted. I only wish they’d do the same and it would be an extra buffer to give us all peace. I certainly haven’t planted any big or beech trees though.

 

I've done very little in the garden so far this year as an arm injury that has returned from two years ago is giving me problems. Lawns are being cut by hired help but I managed to dig out four small shrubs. A young Choisya 'Sundance' that has suffered since planting, now replaced with Buddleja 'Globosa' and three Potentilla 'Fruticosa' that since planting haven't been happy in my sandy loam soil and have been flattened by Pheasants laying on them. They won't be replaced.