What jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2015

Potted on some impatiens balsamina and auricoma x bicaudata and 48 slug fodder ( French marigolds) Planted a eurphobia purpurea and gave everything in the GH a good soaking

 

Did a lot of pitting on this evening and put my dhaluas outside to garden off this morning

 

It sounds ordinary but requires an unusually longer length of time....I am watering my very tall medlar tree. I have noticed leaves dropping off; I recall hearing a garden expert saying that this is a sign it needs watering BUT it is common to underwater it! It requires much longer watering to get really deep down to the roots below so I have my hose there and hopefully will remember it's there after a while! I don't do this often - guess I should though.

 

At this very moment ... brackets being fitted to either side of front door

 

I have planted out more of the broadbean plants

And taken pics just going to be sitting in it today now as still suffering the effects of the injection

Im going to try and water the front garden later maybe

 

Brackets for what "M"?

 

I picked up so did water the plants in the front and noticed the roses were covered with greenfly so sprayed them with a distilled vinegar, water and washing up liquid solution. Doesnt seem to have made much of a difference. Any ideas?

Also brushed sand into the patio and path

And going to lay out the lavender plants in the beds ready for planting tomorrow :-)

 

Seem to spend rather a lot of time just watering things,
Jenny

 

Box balls, Jenny; box balls

Well, I've now planted on my tomato plants, some trailing fuschias and still have the geraniums and lobelia to do. Rigged up a make-shift "cold frame"

Re-potted my Chaenomeles into a new pot I bought today - this is the one where the pot broke on me weeks ago but it didn't seem to mind as one of the buds is now in flower Put some bamboo canes in each corner of the pot to form a wigwam and planted some sweet pea seeds (Old Spice) in the hope that they will grow and bring a fresh look to the Chaenomeles which will have stopped flowering by then.

Bought two new pots from Homebase, 2x bags of John Innes compost and some packets of seeds (4 for the price of 3 at the moment: hadn't realised!). Managed to get 20% discount on one of the pots (couple of barely noticeable cracks) and spent the grand total of: £5 Ok, I cashed in some nectar points too Good job I had them to cash in too ... crikey, hadn't realised pots could be that expensive or, maybe I'm just a cheap skate and hadn't paid that sort of price before

All in all, a productive day

 

Today, our new Primrose compost bins got delivered. Tomorrow we'll be putting them together.

 

It seems as if you've got it all sussed FC. I'm not fussy about garden tools and my spade and fork are used for just about everything and the spade is what I use for garden edging. I would follow the straight lines and edge close to the corner from both sides and then 'nibble' out the curve for the corner bit by bit. If you don't trust yourself to do that then you could use your garden hose as a guide. The problem with painting brick walls is, they have to be maintained regularly and to be honest is it worth causing yourself more work.

Oh and tell your pooch he's allowed to step over the red line!