What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

Few pools are built these days with pump sumps. The modern equivalent is a Vortex.

This is a 40 gallon rainwater butt set in concrete with a socket at the bottom connected to the bottom drain.
There's a filter pump at the top and a drain pump at the bottom connected to a house drain thirty-odd feet away.
The coarse solids never reach the filter, they stay in the bottom of the sump. Those and any crud in the bottom drain or around it and the connecting pipe get forced up into the sump when the standpipe is inserted and the contents of the sump pumped out.
When the standpipe is then removed, air pressure on the pool forces a replacement 40 gallons of bottom water, crud and anything else up ito the sump at a rate of .
The pipe is then replaced and that mucky water pumped out.
The pipe is then removed and the sump refills.
The filter pump is then turned back on.
The pool refills with the necessary 80 gallons automatically, via the simple trickle change.

Job done. Five minutes max.

 

Potted on some Cosmos and Dahlias this morning, very warm in the greenhouse ..phew!!:fan:

 

I've disconnected and blanked off the water supply to the pool trickle change feed, the quarantine tank and its filter.
I've sorted out the power supply to the fountain. I've decided to connect the pool's transformer to the mains in the sump. I drilled several 1" holes through the pools concrete base and through the bottom drain so any water that gets into the sump will drain away. I'll put a bead of silicone around the bottom edge of the stepping stone and the concrete rim of the sump, so it should stay dry in there.

I've had an e-mail telling me the fountain will arrive on a pallet, sooner than originally promised.

I've watered the pots, put the lawn sprinklers on for a bit and turned on the leaky hose system that waters all the beds. It's been dry for a few days and will be so for a few more.

Our azalea "hedge" in the front garden will soon be out, there's masses of blooms on it.



Tthe first of the few hundred bluebells are out. They look nice but the leaves are a pain to clear later.



All's looking well, so I deserve to play golf tomorrow and then watch the Masters later.

 

I'm quite impressed with the solar powered set up Lori! I set up the droppers today and Ive got it rigged up and dripping into my trays of capillary matting and it is working a treat. I also bought an automatic Louvre opener so I'm all set up for going on holidays now. (My neighbour is still coming to feed the fish and check up on it just incase anything goes wrong!).

In between naps I managed to sort out the area below the clematis Montana that I wasn't sure what to do with. Luckily, some fresh bits of Montana are sprouting from the based so I will be training those up the dead looking "branches" at the bottom. I also had loads of hosts from dividing them last autumn, so I planted those at the base as its cool and shady down there most of the day. Also potted on some river lilies that my neighbour gave me and planted out a cordyline into a bigger pot and put my re-painted "bug hotel" onto the wall.

Also planted up a couple more pots - of which now I have run out so going to see what I can buy online.

 

@Snorky85 a friend of mine uses this for Rheumatism and says its very good. Buying online though can be very hit and miss as products from some suppliers don't work. Apparently Boots the Chemist are going to sell it - if they haven't started already, so I think they will be trustworthy.

Edit: I think Holland and Barrett sell it too.

 

Yes they do

 

Ah yes, had been looking at it in detail as you have to get high strengths and its quite expensive i think. You also have to take it everyday, not just when the pain starts so not sure how that works in the longterm.

 

Think I may have mentioned this before but my niece seems to have far fewer migraine attacks since becoming a vegan a year ago!!??

 

Perhaps you should try a more aggressive approach @shiney. I'd given up speaking to my tomato seeds nicely so told them it was about time they got going or else! Two days later the seedlings started to appear.

 

Pruned berberis darwinii, Ribes and others today. Swapped two hellebores around .....both had massive heavy rootballs but neither would have known they were moved. One is a good yellow and the other a strong pink and both will look better swapped Plenty of compost etc added, fish blood and bone too plus thick mulch.
Planted out osteospermum Treso Purple (cuttings from last summer) and divisions of Elymus Magellanicus.
Some Gazanias still in flower from last summer were divided and potted up and planted out.

 

I only had time to move my brussels sprout and cauliflower seedlings out to the heated greenhouse, water out there and cut some catnip for a friend. Oh, and flip one of tne rain barrels because the night temps are not going to go much below freezing from now on according to the weather guessers.

 

Prick out seedlings, plant germinated parsnips. Finish removing bamboo root and fill hole.

 

Emergency day of 'gardening ' at my Dad's today. Every year he likes to order some summer bedding, well this year I said not to bother as I had it all done and dusted but if he wanted to he could order his strawberry plants ( as he always does). Had a panic phone call saying his ' bedding' and strawberry plants had arrived ( bedding!!!) but that they were tiny compared to previous years plants.....he's ordererd plugs instead of garden ready!!! They are now in his kitchen cluttering all his worktops waiting for me to bring over pots , thankfully he has compost to pot them up. Have to clear out his small greenhouse to make space for them. Not too optimistic that they will survive as he's not good at looking after outdoor plants and I expect they will get forgotten despite my reminders!!

Fun !!!!
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