What jobs are we doing in the garden today 2016

Uh oh. Not a mouse plague. I can't deal with that.


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Well, today is a public holiday here in Belgium, it being Ascension Day (Monday was not, as we have the "date" public holidays on the day where they fall, and 1 May was a Sunday)....

So, I cannot use power tools in the open, but I have extra muscle - aka hubby!

Plan in my mind is -
- lemon tree outside, treated with neem oil spray (bad infestation of scale insects), then placed in its summer position
- orchids treated with remains of neem oil spray
- yellow pear tomato planters filled with compost, with a little chicken manure mixed at the bottom, about 12" down (hope the roots won't find it until ready for feeding!)
- two yellow pear tomatoes planted out, as a first wave
- white sweet peas planted out
- door barrels planted up - sweet peas, a clematis in one, oesteospernums, fuchsias, petunias, and busy lizzies
- framework for runner beans set up
- peasticks set in for mangetout peas, and French bean

What's the betting I only manage to get about half of that done?!

 

Watered my pots, mowed the grass and managed to put everything out for a few hours of sun, toms are still out there..winds picking up so will bring them in now.
Feel like such an @rsehole too, I bent my magnolia twiglet back and snapped it off at the base.. roots are still in the ground and its been in over a year (total accident), the apple tree has leaves at the BOTTOM and none on its branches and to totally p!ss myself off, I strimmed the tops off my huge alliums I bought from RHS Cardiff last year.. could cry.

 

weed pulling. only allowing my self two hours, and in one of the gardens. too much to do to get ready for the holiday, etc.

 

The sun decided to shine, the wind calmed and no rain at all. Great. Planted all the recently delivered plants then spent the rest of the day hunting down horsetail weed

 

What I've NOT done was be in to receive my Dahlia cuttings. They're now stuck in a box in the post office overnight [emoji32]


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Don't know if I'm doing anything right (anything at all!) but the veg seeds in the raised bed have sprouted and been thinned and seem to be flourishing. Planted a Geum Leonard's Variety and Dicentra (Lamprocarpus now, apparently) Bleeding Heart in the front garden. They look a bit ridiculous as they're surrounded by the weeds, builder's waste and a random rubber duck courtesy of the kids next door, but it's a start. I'm on hols w/c 16th May and hope to get quite a lot done then!

 

Gave the lawn a cut (wow it's grown since I chucked the weed & feed on it).
Dug over and weeded the beds. Extended one of the beds to fit a small trachycarpus in.
Repotted the fuchsias into bigger pots.

 

It's not a case of what did I do. But what did my 4yo son do...... removed all the foliage off one of my Agapanthus and a pot full of cowslips, plus deadheaded the Iris (young flowering stem), which also didn't flower last year for the same reason [emoji34][emoji34][emoji34][emoji34][emoji34]

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Oh no, really feel for you Lynd! It's so gutting when stuff like that happens. Oh well, one more year and they might have bulked up

I've been there before loads of times. In the winter I accidentally pruned half my Clematis off. Was so gutted at the time. But plants recover eventually

 

Cheers @JackJJW Felt like such a clown, the magnolia was a gift from my neighbour.. really lucky she gave me two at the time! So still have one Got distracted when strimming and whoops! off the allium tops came.. still got a few leaves though so yep really do hope they bulk out I now remember why I leave the strimming to the other half and shout directions!

@NCFCcrazy Feel your pain, my 2 year old likes to dig in my pots with tractors