WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Hope it works Liz the pot . Take care though....those wasps can get pretty nasty if challenged

I think temps are still rising.....down the beach at 7am it was very warm

 

Will do, Ive work this morning, then coffee with a friend who was one of my first customers who now lives in extra care flats. I pop in every fortnight for a chat and she loves Rosie.
Then it’s my mothers as it’s her Birthday then home.

 

He was just a gardening novice, who liked to give it a go...lol
First attempt at taking some cuttings (Salvia, Lavendar and Acers)...
Forgive me for I know not what I do

 

Not done much so far today, apart from cut "our" side of the hedge between us and our elderly neighbours... Too hot to do anything else!

 

A bit of deadheading then went round with a soapy water spray i am getting over run with aphids.

 

Watering the lawn right now after applying a granular feed. It still looks pretty good. Our reservoirs are still at healthy levels and no hose pipe bans. Rain is in the forecast after another hot day forecast for tomorrow....it is supposed to be even hotter then . (Boy! Do I like using these ). If the dry weather continues I may have to accept a browning lawn. Yes, it will recover but a nice green lawn is the perfect recreational space as well as a good looking space!

Cannas are now flowering.....always spectacular

I am scheduled to dig out a load of soil at my niece's next week.....feeling fit for it but cooler weather will be appreciated

 

I have no need for the watering can today or to brush the grass...ITS RAINING FOLKS..forecasted for all day...wont know what to do with myself as I cant get out there in that...I'd be soaked hahahahaha...Looks like a tidy round the Greenhouse then..Right! stick the pan on and lets have me a good old Sunday Morning Fry-Up..to include some homegrown Ailsa Craig

 

Fitting the Orbit controller and Hozelock irrigation system at the caravan garden today . The forecast now is for heavy rain tomorrow after several weeks of drought !

 

Another hot day here
Not a lot of rain in the local forecast.....some rain overnight tonight and early tom morn but then clearing through again. Cooler week ahead...perhaps no bad thing.....but summer is still ongoing here

 

Drug testing for plants....
I purchased a pack of Suttons Salad Leaf seeds (for the troughs in the Greenhouse 2nd crop) it says ready to harvest in 21 days "aye right" I said to myself....Two days in and jeepers they have germinated already...these must be on steroids or summat....

Equally we are on the second harvest of Tomatoes this season, I am definitely going to be growing Aisla Craig again next year all being well..they are a great cropper with lovely taste.

 

Looking good @BigC glad that you're having some rain. When it comes over here it would have fizzled out..
Rooted some blackcurrant cuttings in water, didn't know that it would work. Have to pot them on before the roots get too long.
Got 170 wallflower seedlings come up.

 

@Logan that is magnificent....are those for this year??

 

Thanks @BigC I have to keep taking them out of the greenhouse and into the garage because of this hot weather. For next spring, i'll plant them in their final position in September, but pot them on first when they're bit bigger.

Just potted up the blackcurrant cuttings.


Don't know what I'm going to do with them, but have to see. Wanted to grow more so i can make jam out of them.

 

I mowed the lawns for the first time in six weeks as the grass wasn’t growing but patches of green grass that haven’t gone that strawey colour have grown tall so thought I had better get the mower out

Now that we have had lunch we are staying indoors as the sun has now gone round to the back garden and is far too hot to do anything else so I expect I shall force my eyes to watch the men’s Wimbledon final at 2pm

PS,We also walked across the fields of gold across to the next village before 8am this morning and it was hot then and we clocked up 4 1/2miles for the round trip