WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Well @wiseowl and @shiney you both have tickled me this morning so
might I take the non-expert liberty to suggest,
as we say in Wales it appears you may have a slow LEEK!!!

my friend

 

Freddy drinks at night then fills in it back up in the day Weeeeeeee

 

@wiseowl and @shiney yrselfs

 

@wiseowl Awww WOO

 

@shiney
Same here guess which one is me
and Im doubtful age will ever improve me

 

Apart from digging up some Crocosmia for Mr Woo, chucking some peelings onto compost heap and refilling bird feeders I haven't done anything else gardening related. Fearful, strong, cold wind tearing across the land today and my heart was just not in it . Read the Mike Dilger book for awhile, just one chapter. It's such a good book I have to limit myself or I'll finish it too soon

 

January is not the greatest gardening month . Just removed the anti-Molly digging devices from the flower bed . The tulips and daffs are coming up great

 

A job I hate doing.

Cleaning out the frog pond and putting in fresh water. I like to do it before they get "at it."

Before


After.




See any difference?

Nor can I.


But we had four residents who I put back in. The rest will still be hiding in the folds in the liner of our koi pool. They'll be joining them in a week or so. They can make their way out by climbing onto the overflow outlet.





I used the old water on the rhodos and azaleas. It'll be slightly acid. I use the dregs from the koi pump sump too, when I purge it each week. Beats paying for fertilizer.

 

Sowed some more seeds today - antirrhinum - Bacopa - pennistemum - Bidens - foxtail grass and some others .
Got the larger propagator out and cleaned it out, set up the wall pasting bench for the propagator and seedling hopefully very soon .
Took a dead fuchsia back to the greenhouse hoping for a miracle, thought the cold had got it before I brought it inside but the whole stem fell off as I placed it down, further investigation found vine weevil grubs checked another fuchsia what keeled over, more Vine weevils .

Its snowing now and covered so no gardening tomorrow.

 

I’ve had a change of tactic today. Partly inspired by fellow GCers and partly from expediency. Instead of spending the next 6 months sifting bits out of my big pile of soil (and missing half of it) I am shovelling it all on as it is and worrying about any possible contamination as and when it arises. If all the debris in the soil is inert, I have nothing to worry about. The whole planting area will need digging over anyway before I plant anything in it.



G.

 

@Jack Sparrow what's the contamination of the soil ? I remember you sieving it but never know why