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

You're such a sweetie Loli, thank you!

 

Waiting for a ton of screened top soil to be delivered for the raised veg bed so we can grow in soil rather than sand!. Dig out rusty metaposts for replacement fence panels.

 

Whew it's been a busy day! Dug out the bed (and wrecked my back doing so... ), built a little rocky border, filled it up, planted clary sage and tayberry.



I thought I was going to sift all this soil through this tiny little basket and use it... but it's no good, it's mostly sand and not worth the work. Not sure what to do with it now...


I wonder whether this little self-watering system will work...

 

Eva, the only thing that pile of 'sand' looks good for is a bag of cement and build something with it. Your bed looks good but I don't think the self watering system will be much use with a sandy soil, it'll drain straight through, sorry!

 

I've tickled the weeds out of my rose bed today and dug it over, also mulched it with the contents of my compost bin, it was only half full so not the thickest of layers on the bed. Every little helps with a sandy soil though!

 

Thanks for the heads up, Sheal! I'll just water normally for now and use that bottle in my planters or something. And funny about the cement and building something with that dirt, my dad suggested exactly the same thing! I have no idea how I would go about that but now that two people have mentioned it I best look into it. Another person suggested using it in a potting mix.

 

You could probably make something that looks like an old Butler sink with it and use it as a planter. It would look quite good with the rough textured finish from the mix of sand and soil.

 

Oh dear, Shiney, that looks like a doozy, good luck!

I told myself I wouldn't do any gardening today because I have work to do, but then I noticed one of the runner beans in my propagators was mouldy and completely rotten. I removed the offending bean and some of it's neighbours. A few of the peas nearby were also a little fuzzy but they seemed to be sprouting all right so I left them. The soil must be too moist, so I had a big soil-drying mission, giving them all turns on the heaters covered in paper towels, haha. Then I planted some supermarket garlic. I think all is well now with my other beans, haha.

 

Put some rabbit protection around some emerging perennials, spread 5 barrow loads of manure,dug out couch grass from Michaelmas daisies, removed many buttercup plants from herbaceous border, watered greenhouses, chased sheep off lawn and repaired hole in wire netting.

 

Might give the lawn its second cut

 

Just done 2 1/2 hours of pricking out. Having a cuppa now as my back is complaining then I'll start round two. I want to get out in the garden but we've got that fine drizzley rain...looks like it will clear though.

 

Wow, you've been up and doing Fern...it's a nice time to be out there though isn't it? barring the rain ofcourse...

Plenty on the agenda today,but first job....in with the spuds

 

It had to be done but I made use of the kitchen table today as the house was nice and quiet! It's stopped raining and the sun's out.