What jobs are we doing in the garden today 2016

I don't think it will make a lot of difference Jack when it's pruned. I pruned in October because most of the leaves had been ripped off by wind anyway. Yes, mine has had new buds on for some while. I'll take a picture of it in the next couple of days, weather permitting!

Yes it looks okay in a pot Jack, thank you, but I'm wondering how quickly it will become pot bound, the roots grow almost as rapidly as the crown of the plant.

Even as a first year plant mine produced flowers, I'll see how it performs this year after quite a heavy pruning.

 

Big fox in the garden just now trampling over the border. I'd wondered why some plants were knocked over not had one of these in our garden for a few years now.

 

The winter weather here puts a stop to doing any work in the garden. Even so, I have been in there today, checking for storm damage. I was pleased to see that there are buds on my Magnolia. Its not even been in there a year yet, so I think it to be pretty amazing. I must be doing something right, I had not expected any for at least a couple of years.

 

We're cloudy and mild - about 38f. But still too chill to be outside for long. Besides, the ground is still frozen solid and will be for another 2 months at minimum.

Need to get some things done in the greenhouse but think I will wait for thursday or friday. They are supposed to be extremely cold days but very sunny and as we all know, a greenhouse gets quite toasty in the sun. In the meantime I will get my dremel working on some metal parts that I need to retrofit for use in the greenhouse.

 

My first venture into the garden today after three months of foul weather. I scrubbed out a large pot which I'm giving to a good friend of mine.

 

Well with spring literally around the corner I've made a start revamping and digging over the veg patch ready for this years crops. Surprisingly given the amount of rain we've had of late the soil wasn't too sodden

I also removed an old dying and rotten ceanothus hedge which ran along side the veg patch, that's being replaced with a fence and a strip of wildlflowers and a couple of native shrubs

 

I moved 1800 kgs of compost from the front drive to the back garden raised beds... one slow and heavy wheelbarrow at a time. I'm exhausted now!

 

Hmm, considering the wet, windy, blustery weather ...


... I fed and watered the chooks (they, at least, had the common sense to huddle together in their coop!), poop scooped the garden (thanks Oz, mate!) noticed the Bowles Mauve I took a cutting from almost 2 years ago is showing signs of a flower head forming, did little more than pull a weed or three. I'm sure that was helpful ... in the long run

 

Didn't get much done today, but I did sow a couple of trays of early seeds in the heated propagator, celeriac for the veg garden and Gazanias for the flower garden.

 

Snap to the celeriac

I also had a little stroll and can see some of the Tulips are coming up now.


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Cleaned up some of the soil in my temporary potting hq.

And that was all.

 

Forgot to say,,,



ZONE ENVY...our ground will be frozen solid for at least another 6 weeks...

soldier on Lori, soldier on

 

Today i planted 2 pomegranate trees, young uns about 2m high and a holly bush. It's been pretty frosty in the morning, this passed week, so i hope it doesn't affect them...that's what they said at the garden center I have 6 Ivy plants in pots waiting to go in the soil but i think i will wait till the frosty period is over.

 

nothing much here. frosted up again last night, about 20 degrees here. During the day the snow has melted some. still have the leaves to rake when the weather is better. filling bird feeders today.