What Jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2014..

Had a good tidy up , and one of my "Montana" clematis is totally dead looked a bit wilted in August so dont know what has happened with that roughly about 7 years old even the thick trunk at the base was rotten inside , the others are all ok .

Cleared the whole lot off the trellis and out of the white cherry tree, it will let more light into that area now and I do have some seedlings that have grown well so I will wait to see what colour they are before re planting but I will choose a spot quite a distance from the old one.

Gave all the overwintering plants a good water in the greenhouse , amazing how quickly they dry out this time of year.

Saw a lot of bumble bees enjoying the flowers on Kojo no mai cherry .

Lawn is still soaking wet and full of moss even all the new fencing has turned green

cuppa and a relax I think

 

Didn't do much today, no excuses as it was a dry, sunny afternoon. Just a touch of lazyitis, I guess. Have put some bare root plants into soak now so will be busy tomorrow and make up for it. Spotted some goosegrass getting ready to run riot so will tackle that tomorrow too.

 

been in to "next door " emptied my green house and emptied the last of my veg beds (carrots and beets and 2 heads of celery ) it really has been mild here ! lifted most of the rhubarb ... i will take this up the plot as i have much more room up there

 

The Sun came out today so:

• filled brown bit
• mowed lawn
• semibuilt this: http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/turning-a-bedframe-into-a-coldframe.60922/
• planted 24 x Arran Pilot potatoes

Knackered!

 

I agree with Spruce, it's probably to cold outside for them to germinate. You really need to bring them inside as they tend to be slower to get going than other seeds, also when they get past seedling stage they tend to slow down in growth for a while.

 

Cleaned out the greenhouse which was a bit of a pigsty (it was once a real pigsty before I converted it) and it's now spotless, tidy, and ready for sowing etc. Dug out the second bed in the polytunnel and added fresh garden compost. Measured out one of the veg plots for our maincrop spuds so we can get black plastic down to warm the soil and bring up weeds for flaming before we sow. Picked a few leeks for dehydrating.

 

hi everyone, i spent a good part of the day repairing the fence after storm damage. i also cleaned up all the leaves and had general tidy up before it started pouring down. trying to find a gap in between rain and swampy lawn is difficult
regards nijinski

 

@nFrost ...didn't we have some cracking weather yesterday.....

Covered my veg patch with polythene to get it warmed up and tided round.....sowed what i think were Astrantia 'Ruby Wedding'seeds (didn't label them when i collected them)....
Planted out some Hardy Geraniums 'Elke' ....sowed some carrots,Spring onions and a trough of mixed salad leaves in the GH....potted on some Lupins .Delphiniums and Ammis Majus....did some watering,had a sulk because my Cleome have damped off soon got over it .....I'll be doing more of the same today but minus the sunshine

@fat controller ....go back and get that propagator .....Bargain

 

Neither would i but i'd still buy it for £22

 

I put mine outside in the summer, in a fully shaded part (its part of my Exotic garden), in the winter it lives in the frost free conservatory - they take more cold than people may assume.