WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Perki sorry you've not felt to good mate...i just hope you feeling slightly better

 

My post comes at all different times of the day.
Sometimes I won't get any post for a few days and then I'll get a load.

Royal Mail only employ part time staff which is why they come and go and RM can't keep staff.

 

Well if it is warm like they state tomorrow and over the weekend...back fencing will be stained ...i just hope the colour suites ok

 

The video was better but I can’t upload it,

 

Ive been preparing for the new turf i just need to go and pick it up when it arrives, when autumn comes i will over seed all the lawn and try and blend the new and old together.

 

Well, I was going to cut the grass...

...but less than 1 grass-box in (for a 6-7 box lawn), the cable for the self-propelling system snapped. I can't see how to fix it easily, and it's just 2 years into its 5 year guarantee. So instead of gardening, I've been revising how to write complaint letters in Dutch, and emailing the garden centre where we bought it...

I suppose I'll just have to get on with soil-sifting instead!

 

Turf down and watered, the edges are roughly trimmed i will fine tune them when its bedded in in a few weeks time.

 

Took a load of plants over to my nephew's and planted them out. Plants included osteospermums, lilies, tulips, astrantia, rudbeckias, salvias including the pineapple sage, felicias, argyranthemums, zaluzianskya. Will take more in a couple of weeks
Not hot but a pleasant warm feeling day today

Looking excellent there Martin.....a lawn makes a big difference to a garden

 

Been a busy bee the last couple of days. Yesterday had a good day up at the allotment. Nearly all the beds are full barring the beds for cut flowers. Wont be long til they're planted out.

Today i pulled all the bulbs put the troughs and pots at the front as they were looking a mess. Planted up the nemesia, bought a couple of cordyline and planted in some creeping jenny from some I already had.


God job I emptied the plant pot with the creeping jenny. Was being destroyed by vine weevil grrrr

 

Didn't do a lot, as it was golf in the morning, some "justgetme" shopping on the way home after lunch. Then spent an hour programming my new leccy piano. But I did manage to tidy the front garden. Shaped up the small hedge between us and next door and pruned the three big viburnums.
They'd take over given half a chance and the rhodos and azaleas would always come off worst.
They begin to encroach over the unseen curtilage wall and start to restrict the width of the pavement, if I don't do it each year.



I then washed down the rail of the pergola next to the pool and the exterior of the tea-house, ready for some painting tomorrow.

 

I did two wall troughs today South and North facing.

South:
Two Little Leo Sunflowers.



North:

One Geranium Splish Splash and two golden oregano (only to fill the space whilst the Geranium gets established).



Both I lined with an old compost bag and I did an experiment this year.

Usually the outside of the coco liner gets loose and starts to fall apart so what I did was to spray the outside of the liners with clear lacquer in the hope that it will hold it all together for a bit longer.
I'll report back what happens.

 

This evening I planted out groups of malva alba , agastache Tangerine, lilies, Veronica First Love and divided primulas.
Should be some extensive planting over the next few days

 

Watered the new lawn again then gave the decking a needed brushing down and a general tidy up, the new grass is quite a good match to the old, its still work in progress but coming along ok a good job done clearing this area.