What jobs are we doing in the garden today 2016

@Zigs Some of us remember that

Do you tally your banana when you've worked all day on a drink of rum?

 

Didn't do anything in the garden yesterday as it was too cold.

But I got a lot done Thursday morning.

I not only trimmed another 200ft of lawn edges but actually cut another 100ft of new edges as the old had disappeared. I also raked a wheelie bin full of debris, lawn edging bits, dried leaves, twigs and branches and left them for Mrs Shiney to pick up. I prepared 60 x 3.5" pots with compost and put in trays for Mrs Shiney to put her cuttings into.

Michael came yesterday (first time since October - apart from an hour the other week, after which he went home with the flu!) and dug and composted some of the veg plot, dug over an area of a front garden flower bed for Mrs Shiney to plant some more of her plants - including digging out a load of irises and splitting them (very hard work).

He's a hard worker, and very nice, but still needs more training - but is learning fairly fast. When I went to inspect the first row of digging and composting I had to get him to uncover it. He'd already put the weed membrane back but I could see that he'd dug, composted and dug the compost in OK but had just left the soil like that and then covered it. That would be fine if it wasn't being covered as the soil would settle down nicely on its own over a few weeks.

It would still do that under the membrane but it would then leave the membrane quite loose and the wind could catch underneath it. So I had to show him how to tamp it down without compacting it.

The area along the fence where we had dug out the 60 year old rambling roses and then filled in the rabbit holes that were going under the fence, have got more rabbit holes. They come from the neighbour's garden one side (he doesn't have the field fenced off ), run across my garden and then go under the fence to the other neighbour who has his bins alongside the fence. I'll get Michael to dig out a 6" deep and 12" wide trench all along that fence and line it with chicken wire. With a bit of luck that will work.

I'm also going to have to run the chicken wire around the bean canes to stop the little perishers. They got 91 of my young bean plants last year! Fortunately I had grown another 100 as spares and let them grow a lot bigger before putting them in. Rabbits prefer the young plants.

 

Good morning to day I have so much rhubarb to move in to one spot,perennials to divide and move and then some Roses to reposition

 

hello I'm back again ,all the Rhubarb has been repositioned,the's nothing like the feeling of cold wet and muddy hands and the drizzle rain on your back to make you feel next to nature

 

@wiseowl What about a cold and wet nose?

 

Now you know that we have beaks not noses

Have moved all the rhubarb to Rhubarb Corner



Some masonry painting to do

 

@WeeTam what do you usually use as containers? The ones you have there look a bit like 'washing up' bowls. We've found that they are more expensive than buying cat littler bowls and are, basically, the same thing but feel a bit sturdier. We only bought litter bowls when on special offer - £2 each.