WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Ours managed its usual 10ft+ but the flowers all shrivelled up in the drought. Four months without rain, although we did water it, affected it. The flowers only opened partially and then just stopped.

 

Now that all the leaves are down I've blown most of them out of nearly 1,000 pots in our nursery beds. The leaves on the lawns have all been collected and either put on the compost heaps or in the green bins for the council to compost (willow goes in the green bins). The leaves in the beds are still being collected but have got most of them done.

We've been cutting back the grasses and they go on the bonfire (the ash ends up either dug into the compost heaps or spread on the beds). With about 50 grasses I find it very hard work (because the bending doesn't help my back). I've been working on this bed and also tidying the lawn edges.

 

I carried on with leaf clearing and lawn edging. The edging is a temporary matter to make it easier for me in the Spring when I do the proper job.

 

I moved 3 Barrow fulls of large, heavy, stone cobbles from the top of the garden to the bottom near the Wildlife pond with plans for building a cobble path leading to the pond, but that won't happen until the early Summer
I also repotted 3 Monardas, 4 Echinacea, a Philadelphus "Belle Etoile" as they arrived in pots that were too small. After a Mug of Tea I emptied 2 large shallow clay containers of old compost and annuals into the Compost Bin and then renewed the compost and replanted with layers of Tulips and Daffodils and then put them back into place on the Patio. I'd got some 100 Tulips and Daffodils left over so I found a couple of places in the borders and then had to find another couple of places to plant 150 Crocus, Spring Bulbs, and alliums. I've still got Imperial Fritillaries to plant and 30 Nectaroscordum Siculum bulbs to pot up in a mixture of compost, sand and grit so, hopefully, I'll find time tomorrow to do that. A quick look into the Green House told me that it needs sorting out and all the hardy perennials in pots need organising into their different varieties and which are ready for planting.........another job for the list of jobs

 

I continued clearing leaves and making lawn edges - hampered by my usual four legged nemesis.

 

The new patio etc seems to have given me the drive to get things ready and in order for the Spring, Upsdaisy. There's loads of jobs to be done so it's a case of.....