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

On getting home from work and when the rain finally stopped....wandered to the GH...Stared at my Kelsaes ....thought.. i'll pot them on at the weekend....glanced at my Geranium cuttings and thought i'll pot them on at the weekend....Eyed up some Erysimum 'bowles mauve' cuttings and thought i'll pot them on at the weekend....and so it went on....so i've put alot of thought into things today....

 

@Lolimac - I've been doing a lot of thinking too and along the same lines. Don't have a GH but for the first time trying to fake it in my shed which has a fair sized south facing window, so not heated but sheltered at least.
How are your Erysimum cuttings doing? What should they be like at this time of year? Mine have a little bit of die-back but I think some signs of new growth. Must get on with geranium cuttings tomorrow too.
Cheers GG

p.s. did you for a while change your nick to Loli, or have I had a memory short circuit?

 

Hi GG...
The Erysimums are looking quite well i do have some that look a little sad but as you say there is signs of life...i'm sure yours will be fine in your shed


You're memory is fine GG...It was changed to Loli for a while when i had trouble logging on and had to open a new account

 

Loli yours look much better than mine, you obviously have greener fingers. I'll be glad if mine survive the next couple of months, one of the stalwarts for winter interest I think.

GG

 

Too wet to do anything much outside, apart from a little bit of tidying up in the front garden. So, sowed some seeds instead. Agastache Fragrant Delight Mixed , Clematis Macropetala and Eccremocarpus Tresco Mixed.

 

Didn't do much except for having a look to see if any more of my bulbs have made an appearance. Still no sign of the winter aconites....I've got the feeling that I might have planted them upside down!

 

Nothing done in garden, so sowed my broad beans in pots. Sowed my tomato seeds, sowed Borage, Comfrey, Coriander and put my parsley seeds to soak. Pricked out some other tomato seeds sown last week. So many seeds to sow....... such little time, no I can always make time, I just love sowing the little packages of life.

 

Can't remember your soil type - it favours Acid soil, and at least no more alkaline than "Neutral".

They shouldn't mind partial shade ... but moisture is important, particularly when young, and lack of that in Summer might be preventing flower formation?

 

I have a wasp nest that I need to tackle (i think it's a wasp nest) they seem to have built themselves a house in my woodshed last year I had no idea how big these things can get, I'm assuming they're all asleep now.....

 

I think Ant killer will work for a wasps nest? (put in the entrance so that they carry it into the nest as they come & go)

 

Thanks.

If I had my way I would actually leave it (i don't agree with destroying any creatures however small) but my neighbors have small children and they already have attacked some builders from next door last year just before the cold weather arrived.