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

More or less everything is planted out now apart from 50 marigolds and a few ricinus.
Planted the cucamelons into there pots, at last there starting to move
Just got 2 lady boothy fuchsia to find a place for
Enjoyed a refreshing cider viewing my handy work and listening to the birds

 

Went to the garden centre with my son this morning after football training and bought:
Verbena
Ganzia
Lavender
3 tomato plants
Chilli plant
Cabbage and cauliflower plants
Compost
I had to buy new plants for the containers as the slugs and squirrels have destroyed all the pots I did before I went on holiday

Came home and painted a 6x6 foot trellis I built, 3 wooden planters. Weeded all 3 borders in the garden, then had to get down and dirty in the veg beds to get all the weeds out. I have taken virtually a whole wheelie bin of weeds out today. Gave the veg beds some fertiliser, and a good watering. Planted a few plants I had hardening off for the last week. Cleared a small raised bed of Penstemon and rehomed them in the front garden and I have sown corn cockle, corn flower, ox eye daisy, calendula, and fox glove in there.

Rusty

 

Saturday, cut the grass and trimmed all the edges (including the public areas around my house!).

Yesterday, planted out Sunflowers, Cosmos, Clary and Zinnias into the new border out the front, did a general weed and tidy up. The numbers of slugs and snails I am finding is finally reducing. Well fed birds around here (slugs go onto the garage roof and snails get flying lessons out onto the service road )

Despite all the rain last week, 2 dry days had left the garden in need of a good watering, pots and all, It is now taking longer and longer to complete

Still waiting for some annuals to grow large enough to plant out.

 

Time for purchase of Boys Toys drip irrigation system?

 

In an ideal world yes, but I have to say, I do enjoy the watering as it gives me a chance to have a good look over the plants. Plus my outside tap is not exactly in prime position to achieve a cost effective system.

 

Agree with that ... amazing what you find when amongst your plants, everything from "Agggghhh SLUGS!" to "WoW! I didn't know THAT was in flower YET"

 

Weeded and thinned two rows of carrots.
Thinned plums on our dwarf victoria. Just out of curiousity counted the thinnings - there's 412 in the bucket!

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I didn't have time to do much today but strimmed the bank and mowed the lawn in the back garden. It's still so dry here the sprinkler has been on the beds again this evening.

 

planted up a hanging basket with 2 x Harry Gray fuchsias in the middle and 4 x Calibrachoa Petticoat pinks,2 x a bluey grey sedum, 2 x helychrisum - all trailing stuff around the edge. It's sitting on a tall pot in a sheltered spot on the ground for a while. It was all a bit " brutal" even though I took as much care as I could. There's a lot of shuffling around, forcing bits to go where they don't really want to and it gets difficult filling up the small vacant pockets with more compost without showering the plants with it as you do it. Hope it will stay calm whilst it recovers,
Jenny

 

Drilled and fitted tap to this and then cut comfrey to start making some feed.


Did a bit of weeding and turned the compost heap

Rusty

 

Just had a pootle round the garden deadheading Lilac and Roses.

 

Yesterday tided up my Rose border ,removed Forgetmenots then planted up with Foxglove 'Illuminations' and ammi majus.Planted out sweet corn and Florence fennel in my veg patch then general weeding and pottering in between showers..