What jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2015

Waiting for Pat to come round and test the electrics, i'll sort it out after that

 

All I've got left to tend outside is my brussel sprouts. I do still have some dismantling of electrics in the greenhouse to do but that is just puttering work.

 

Mowing and shifting moopoo...pure happiness

 

Watered the brussel sprouts. That's it... gee, I hope when they're ripe enough and I can eat them that they don't give me wind...

 

Well, not been up to much this week, but on Friday I did a few hours outside...

Two compost bays were turned, so I now had a half-full "to use" bay (half is pure compost, the other half a compost/manure mix), one 2/3 full breaking down bay, and an empty "filling" bay. One interesting thing I noticed, during the forking... I had layered the middle bay with alternating fresh manure and fresh composting materials. This all rotted down thoroughly. I then must have had a couple more bags of fresh manure left, so I'd put this in the filling bay, and had obviously been unable to be as thorough in the mixing. As I turned this into the breaking down bay, I was hitting patches where the straw had actually dried out - and therefore there had been very little decomposition. This was about 2-3 foot down from the top of the pile - even though there were areas at a similar level that were totally sodden. Made me realise once again the importance of turning the heap, and also what a relatively dry year we have had. Still, it will all be well rotted down by the spring, when I next need to turn the heaps...

I did a little weeding, cutting back of herbaceous perennials where they were going over (a side note, anyone else have oak trees still hanging onto their leaves?), and plants that had been impacted by playing dogs! My filling bay is no longer empty!!

Feeling a little shattered after that, I gathered a few sprigs of cherry laurel, and three different conifers (green, gold, and varigated White/green), and retreated to the warmth of the kitchen, to assemble the winter wreath for the garden gate. Quite pleased with the result!

 

That's fab @Sian in Belgium!

 

Oh no :( I just cut half of my spring Clematis off by accident. I was removing a honeysuckle tangled in it and someone distracted me :( one of my bigger mistakes. Live and learn!


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Just a bit of pottering about on a nice mild Sunday afternoon.

Finished tidying up the beds around the lawn. Cut back the last of the herbaceous stuff, did a bit of weeding here and there and moved a couple of plants to a different location.

 

Yesterday I was mostly pricking out 280 Cyclamen seedlings

 

Raked up the last of the leaves....... millions of them and not one from a tree in my gareden

Put the beast (gunnera) to bed win rootth a fleece / plastic sheet/ then weed membrane. Normally i cover it with loft insulation but really couldnt be bothered wrestling with that itchy horror again

Gave the treeferns another wrap of fleece just in case of a winter bite, no straw used this year.

Had a look at the garlic which appear to be doing well I
in their roottrainers, might need protecting from the rain now.







Had a look at the garlic I