What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

Done in today, pulled my back on the last job, typical so it’s pain killers to keep me going again. I seem to live on them, knees, back, hands, I hate getting old!

 

Hi @CanadianLori , why not get them to lesve the stump at just a little lower than the fence height and grow a climber up it. Then they won't have to disturb any of your plants/plantimg.

 

Glorious since noon ....hot and sunny yesterday’s rain....what rain?

Message to say plants ordered yesterday online have been despatched and will arrive tomorrow...always exciting For sure, the best way to buy plants esp those not quite so common

Grabbed a bowl or two of tomatoes as well as carrots, spring onions, lettuce, beetroot and radishes. Apart from some watering later this is all the gardening work I will do today. Out with a cuppa though deciding on possible changes for next year.....one resolution is to grow less in pots and try to get more of them into the garden. Despite a fairly large garden I must have 50 plus plants in containers that will do much better planted out

 

Stupid me did some more grunt work this afternoon. 2nd compost bay now emptied into 3rd bay, with some fresh-ish stuff from 1st bay added in layers.

So, now have a full 3rd bay, an empty 2nd bay, and a 1/2 full first bay.

Guess what I’m doing tomorrow? (Back permitting!)

 

Looks like its one of them weeks absolutely drowned again , when it rains its bouncing it down its looks like hail.

I think it were you @Verdun on about scented phlox earlier ? I have once called Monica Lynden Bell which is highly scented.

What plants have you got Verdun ? I've orderd my Cannas yesterday - australia - Herman and shenandoah

 

@KFF that is an excellent suggestion but I think I want it cut down to about 12 inches. I have one of those brolly clothes lines and I think I want to make a spike for it, drill a hole in the stump for the spike and then I can easily place the line on the spike and remove it between drying times. Also maybe have a nice pot to sit on the stump in between laundry days.

So far all I've done today is buy another watering can and then put plant food in the fertilizer injector so that all of the pots and raised beds get fed.

I think I'll go out about a 1/2 hour before the tree guy come and start bunching up the plants a bit with fleecy row cover. If I lose some, well, so be it. I'll just be glad to see the tree gone. I hate seeing something suffering. It reminds me of a person with really bad alopecia!

 

Perki, I used to grow several phlox ....Lavendar Cloud rings a bell as well as a strong growing pink that was kindly donated to me. The un named pink, the white David and Miss Mary are the only varieties I grow right now.
Thanks for recommending Monica Lynden Bell....sounds good. I will seek it out.

The cannas! Saladin, Durban, Pretoria, Tropicana Black and Tropicana Gold are what I currently have. However, several clumps of most of them around the garden. Another one or two, maybe those you have ordered to add in the autumn. Tempted by the dwarf “happy” varieties but I like big bold cannas

You may like spigelias. Hardy here they make me smile ....red flowers with yellow tops like a court jester, hence Wisley Jester the variety I have. It’s been in flower since spring and only now beginning to flower less.

 

Sorry that you've pulled your back and hope that it's better soon.

 

@RobB and @Verdun the dialects in the south west are very similar to those in the far east - no not that far east - but Harwich and Dovercourt in Essex. This is the real Essex accent not the London accent which has drifted throughout Essex. There's an assortment up here in the Highlands too, some of which are so strong I haven't a hope of understanding them.

I don't know whether you and other members are aware but if you click on a members location it will 'normally' show you a map of the area and a box that gives you pictures of the area etc.

 

Thanks for that @Sheal I didn't know that.

 

Just collected my companions little dog as she’s out to London today. Got there to find her Quince which is grown up against her wall had collapsed and dropped forward.
Discovered the chap that originally done her garden had tried to nail into cement and got about 5mm in. He was a right cowboy, he planted shrubs in a thin layer of soil on top of concrete bases, measured a pergola round her small patio not taking into account it’s raised so you banged your head when you stepped on the patio, made a mess of the lawn and did some pretty awful brick work.theres more but I asked how much did he charge and it was 13k!
Ordered the parts I need to correct this bodge job. I do wish she would let me loose on the borders as his idea of plants are boring.

 

I’ve seen some poor quality workmanship by so called expert landscapers and gardeners. It seems an unemployed guy, for example, can declare himself a gardener or landscaper. Came across an old lady who had her garden “landscaped” with hundreds of plants put in. Soil was simply scooped out and plants placed and were soon dying; to say paving was loose is an understatement. Forget what she paid but it was a small fortune and for what??

Glorious morning ....not a cloud in the sky right now.

Plants arriving today ......by mail order. Lettuce grown on will be planted out later. Some other-than-gardening things to do this morning though.

 

Sheal, I know you are right there, family near Colchester, right Country Bumpkins(am I allowed to say that)
Shiney, Had a static in Dovercourt until some scroats broke in and took all our stuff.
It's reassuring that you appreciate a proper dialect, I get some questioning looks from the locals down here when I use some slang, they should be used to it after 27 years.
Back to the thread..................today I'm going to sit in the sunny garden and admire my green tomatoes and chillies and wait for the DFBs to flower