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

More pricking out and potting on. Seriously running out of space. I've put some stuff in the blow away but I'll be bringing it in for the night. Noticed that the rocket spuds have made an appearance and my tulips are in full swing.

 

My geranium plugs arrived from gardening direct, quite surprised not in that bad condition although a little small.
Packaging not the best, seed tray not secure in the box but they have placed packing air bags to fill the void.
Anyway potted on around 70 geraniums, another 50 dwarf dahlias, amarantus early splendour.
Potted on some more cannas and a hedychuim
I'm seriously running out of space in the GH

 

I had a lot of other jobs to do today so i just ran in the GH checked on the watering situation and ran out again before all those little green things started shouting at me

 

Just done a load of pricking out and potting on in the kitchen. Stuck more stuff in the blow away. Having a cuppa now while waiting for the rain to go off....lots to do!

 

So far, I have trimmed the conifer hedge, cut the grass, done the grass edges, tidied the window border, raked over the new borders again (still having loads of large stones surfacing) 1 more good rake and it will be ready for some compost and then a few seed beds. I will have seed raised plants to go in too in a few weeks. Gave the window border plants their first feed of the season now they are all springing into life, with my own compost tea brew.

Just having a quick brew myself, then going into the back garden to do some planting up, sow a seed bed or two.

 

Mixed up a good sized batch of home made potting compost, made enough to fill two large plastic dustbins and still had half a barrow load to spare.

Spent the rest of the day sorting out all the large pots and containers. All weeded, topped up, fed, pruned and moved around as required.

 

Pak Choi, Kale and Spinach planted out (with not much help from the chickens!) . More Cauli's, Calabrese, Cabbage and some Lettuce sown in the greenhouse, oh, and some Sweetcorn too. More Courgettes and some Cucumber gone into the heated propagator. All raised beds have been netted to counter said chickens and the prolific pigeon population.

Expecting rain tomorrow so a greenhouse day potting on my giant tomatoes, onions and curcubits.

Ooops, sown my climbing french beans and runner beans too!

 

Finished replacing soil in greenhouse ready for toms later on,put broccolie and caulie plants outside to harden of in cold frame,then finished of cleaning the rubbish out of my rasp canes,if it does not rain tomorrow hope spread wood ash round all my fruit bushes,

 

Today I potted on the rest of my beans (sown too early, I know...) and peas. They're strong and happy, the French beans 'Lake' I ordered off amazon are all doing really well, but I only managed to salvage one of my mouldy runner beans 'Prizewinner', because as I said, I got crazy and sowed them too soon, but look what a big strong plant it has become.



Got some poplar logs for my oyster mushroom farm. Moved the gooseberry from the bed to a container because I decided it's not good to waste all the sunny space on berries. And it's blooming! I don't know why or how because it's such an unhappy little thing. The leaves feel so weak. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with it, maybe that's just how it is, or maybe it didn't like being moved.



Now I've got loads of thinning out to do for the next couple of days... I also went a bit crazy with the butterhead lettuce.. like all my seedlings, it's getting too leggy :(

 

When you get to trim the variegated box I'd like to have the "Bits" please

Plus I could do with some more of the "white" Euonymous clippings - I have more of the "Yellow" at present, and although not decided on a design for the plants my best guess is that it will use up about 50:50 The parterre could possibly be based on a Celtic knot e.g.: