WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Ooh no, I haven't looked there.. had no idea they sold them. Thank you Harry!

My parents have a proper 8 man hot tub similar to the canadian spa ones, so know a fair bit about the water treating side of things.. plus I can pinch all their chemicals and test strips, I normally use them for the kids' pool anyways

Ditto the dressing gown Snorky

 

Moved all this lot round to the front garden this afternoon,

Ive ordered a skip that will be here tomorrow 6 ton £140 with my discount,

Decided to start digging the stump out after that the roots are really thick, i will dig round them all then borrow my friends chainsaw, it looks easier to uproot than privet at least you can get the spade in.

 

Sown a few more seeds, moved some germinated seeds out of the propagator. Moved a couple more things out of the greenhouse now it's warmer at night. Generally had a wander around to see how various shrubs had come through the cold weather. Many had been growing quite nicely before the two cold snaps and had lost a lot of the soft growth and leaves. Pleasantly surprised to see that almost all of them have bursting buds on them and new shoots, they come on very quickly since last weekend.

 

Looks like your getting stuck in @martin-f , you probably already know but keep the chainsaw away from the soil it will blunt the chain rather quick, you be cussing when it won't cut.

It does finally feel like spring has arrived @ARMANDII, you have quite a collection of peony's, my mum has a few you have mentioned. I have one myself but they don't flower long enough so tend to go for roses instead. I haven't had much look with Erythroniums I never plant them soon enough to much dilly dallying , they dry out to much before I get round to planting them.

Done a bit of work on the lawn this afternoon, give it a light mow and scarified front lawn and verticut the back lawn ( playing with the machines ) and raked some patches over again. I'll spike / top dress / feed / the lawn this weekend weather permitting, might overseed as well or leave to later.

 

I cant wait to get it done tbh Perki its been bugging me for over three years and all ive done is add more rubbish to it, many thanks yes i am aware of it blunting the blade reason i am digging round them.

 

Calm before the upcoming productivity storm. The most I've done in the last couple of days is put some steel pegs through the greenhouse frame and into the ground and I can finally say I've found a use for our heavy clay soil!

Got a few more bottles for storing the Photostrogen in, so hopefully I won't be back and forth to the tap whilst using it from now on.

Annoyingly the Homebase nearest us hasn't got enough stock for us to make use of their offer on compost so I'll be keeping my eyes open for anywhere else with it going cheap.

 

I was eyeing up some Erythroniums white beauty and pagoda last autumn, they are quite expensive compared to other bulbs, the local GC sell them in packs of 2 which drives me crazy should be in 3's, I would have to buy 3 packs cause one on its own don't have much impact so two clumps of 3. Think I am getting a bit of OCD on planting numbers got to be a odd number up to 7 I am not to bothered after 7 . Might try and pick up some cheap erythroniums plants this spring after the GC want rid of them to make room for more stock.

 

I checked the weather forecast this afternoon after I'd got back from golf/lunch/shopping and it said it would rain tomorrow/Sunday/Monday. So I decided around 4.00pm to change the guttering on the garage today. Otherwise I could see our new clematis below the old guttering getting washed away. After all it shouldn't take long should it?

Wrong!

I had to reposition one of the wall lights, as the top of it was in the way. which required drilling new holes in the garage wall for the cables and the support screws. Then it was a case of trying to get the fall right, by how I positioned the brackets. So what should have been a one hour job turned into three hours. But it's done now.

 

Soooooo warm
Hopefully, get some time in the garden today. Going to remove a couple of things and plant a few more; linaria Dial Park is a beauty just waiting to get planted
Might get the camera out but then I see something to do and the trowel takes its place

 

17.5c and overcast here

 

Just moved a tonne of sand up the back garden, other half moved the 2 packs of blocks.. even managed to bake a cake in between. Pooped