What jobs are we doing in the garden today 2016

Trip to the garden centre for some more plants, then home to plant them into pots. Need to get some more pots though.



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Got a few jobs done in the greenhouse this afternoon. Planted out the tomatoes, potted up about 80 hyssop seedlings, sowed some butternut squash and a couple of cucumbers. Also took a couple of cuttings from a sprig of rosemary which snapped off when I was moving some pots around.

Finished off with a little weeding around the herb patch and the semi-wild flower border.

 

Sun came out after the rain, had a bit of a tidy up of the greenhouse





There was a little bit of stuff that needed to come out...



Main fruit section is coming to life, bushes pruned by a certain someone that's got no idea how to prune fruit bushes Good job she don't look in on GC

Anyone fancy a Parsnip?

 

Spent much of the afternoon clearing part of my mother in laws garden. She used to enter the local In Bloom competition and used to do very well. She hasn't had much time in the late few years so some of its got out of hand. Ivy has invaded with a vengeance and it all got on top.

As she looks after my kids a couple of times a week, I think I owe it to her to get her garden back under control. Back breaking work, that ivy was in everything. Still a lot to do, but I think I can finish it next weekend. Really shod have done a "before" pic.

Annoying though that she chucked a tenner through the car window as I left. She is very stubborn and wouldn't take it back. Will just have to use it to buy her some plants

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We had a huge family bbq today but I snuck out after everyone had left and dug up 3 buckets of bluebells, a large primrose and japanese anenome for the kids at school (gardening club) to plant tomorrow. There's 10 of them and 30 minutes so they'll have to get cracking!

 

Sorry, I missed this first time round Do you have a Morrisons near to you? I bought a "Guernsey Cream" from there the other week, so worth taking a look

 

Yesterday I created a carrot fly barrier down the allotment and sowed more carrot seeds. I also sowed parsnips. I had to sow another row of peas as one had been entirely wiped out by slugs :(



And at home I potted on all of my grass seedlings and moved almost all seedlings outside into the plastic greenhouse coldframe thing.


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Ooh, I like your shelves and pots

 

Saw a pair of great tits coming in and out of my garden last night. Went out after it stopped and it must have been after slugs, there were loads of little ones all over my plants!!

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The little blighters. At least the birds are eating some.

 

Thank you but by some miracle I found a Guernsey Cream (an unflowered one no less!) at the same Homebase I searched on Saturday. It was hiding right at the back, had to carefully untwine a fellow clematis that had grabbed onto it but was well chuffed! I was looking through all the plants in the climbers section for a good 10 minutes!

Also picked up a couple of Dianthus, many terracotta planters & a bargain Jasmine officinale from B&Q for £1.99 (in the reduced bit but looked perfectly healthy).