What jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2015

Today i have been mostly looking to the heavens and shouting "WHY"!! The marigolds i planted yesterday have vanished into the abbyss that is slugsville! I will get the little bu**ers if its the last thing i do.

 

Hope you're feeling better soon Capney

I've planted out a couple of Rodgersias (love 'em) Kniphofia 'Tawny King',Heleniums,and echinaceas all have to have the chicken wire protection while they settle in...Mulched my Rhodys ,spread some FYM on my veg patch and the left overs of one of my compost bins,put bean netting up.Tied in my Rasps and Mulched them up to their shins,turned other compost bin, it's looking scrumptious alreadygiven up now ,it's too hot to work in...

 

Planted up a trough with herbs, and planted 2 hostas. Then had lunch in the garden

 

I know that feeling....

 

Hi All,

Stayed dry all day I think just about to start raining.

All the lawns cut , the new bergenia border (I have made wider less lawn again ) in the front garden I have added 3 Kniphofia

Buttercup
Ice queen
Barton Fever

I also have Strawberries & Cream but growing on in pots in the greenhouse probably put out next spring as they are really small and I coudnt see them getting through the winter
plus a couple of daylilys, nothing else perennial going in and I will in fill with annuals.

Trimmed my golden privet its a year old now, has replaced the bamboo as it decided to grow into next door garden as along the gravel edge on the patio next to his house wall 12 feet away !!! be warned

Potter about now that takes age to do

1 dry day out of 3 not bad for the BH

Spruce

 

could be leather jackets as well not just slugs

 

hope it's only today and that you will be perkier in the morning Cap'n,

Jenny

 

lifted & split the Rhubarb that I planted in the wrong place four years ago & had gotten huge - three nice crowns so Ive given one away & replanted the other two somewhere where its not going to get in the way quite so much.

Broke my posh spade in the process - its been creaking for a while & finally gave up - that was a moving in present 20 years ago so it gives me a chance to pop down the hardware shop & make the 'Four Candles' joke.

Planted a standard rose & some marigolds in its place

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.. I fully expect the slugs to have removed those by tomorrow..

Started splitting the cannas & potted two on with some summer bedding.

Raining now & didnt get a chance to put the first batch of runners out on the mini-shiney-frame

 

Just some retail therapy. Getting some seeds for summer and next year. £40 worth for a tenner delivered which was nice
Mr fothergills all seed for £1 ! Ends tonight. Bought the expensive stuff of course to maximise savings,cos Im CHEAP

 

No, just thrifty, nowt wrong with that,
occasionally...
Jenny

 

Glad I had a productive day in the garden yesterday (bug hotel finished with small sticks in the gaps between the half-rotten silver birch logs, grass cut, with the blades lowered one notch next to the patio, a coppiced hazel taken down to stump level again - think it will have to come out, and the grass edges done).

Today all I have done is put the washing out first thing. Then 10 mins later when the first thunderstorm with thunder, lightening and torrential rain had passed over, ran out and got the "rinsed" washing back in again, before the next storm arrived....

 

Potted on the tomatoes....again! Next time they'll be in there final buckets if the weather allows me to get the rest of the plants out of the greenhouse.

 

Picking up the debris that the wind left behind!

 

Not much.....the weather continues to be dreadful.