What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

All looking good Perki but unless it warms up soon, they'll be fighting for growing space . I think the really cold nights are set to end and next weeks forecast is looking promising.
You are gonna be busy !!

 

Decided to strip the dying blooms from one of our wisterias. It'll save me clearing the patio of fallen blooms daily. I do this every year. Best done before any rain as the mess the blooms make could make it slippery.






The foliage will quickly thicken up, it provides a lot of shade for our lounge during the summer months.





The bees can still visit this one. Blooms fall mostly into the bed below so don't make such a mess. I've moved the troughs from either side of the tea-house steps temporarily, into a more sunny position, as the hebes weren't doing so well.





I like a nice tidy patio.





Job done by 11.00am.

Now I can watch the tennis on TV.

 

You gotta be the acer and wisteria king DHR

Both lawns cut, a group of pennisetum Rubrum Fireworks planted out and another container planted up

Stunning day

 

This morning I moved all the larger branches from the pruned / chopped laurel onto the woodpile, ready for this afternoon’s efforts.
I’ve cut the grass, sorted out the cuttings in the compost bay, weeded a bit of the gravel on the path round the back of the house, and gone hunting... breeze-block hunting! I decided that waiting for hubby to help would be a looooooooong time (been 8 months so far!).
So, I got the large timber out from the wood store - it’s a veritable treasure-trove in there! Loaded it onto the wheelbarrow, and brought it up the garden as far as the garage. Got the sander to it, to smooth off all the rough edges, and then placed it on the breeze-blocks next to the pond, to make a seat. Now I’m off to test it!

 

wow @Perki you greenhouse looks jam packed! Brilliant!

Sounds like everyone has been busy bees, especially with the lovely weather. We're having a bit more work done in the garden by our landscaper chap. It's looking great. I put some plants in in my new raised beds today and mr snorky helped me to put the automatic watering system in.

I'll add some piccies to my garden project thread next weekend when the landscaper has finished a bit of path/edging

 

I've still got two more days to wait to plant anything more out- according to the weather guessers. All of the hot peppers will be staying in greenhouse spaces so I only have tomatoes, cucumbers, cauliflowers and cannabis to join the lettuce and onions that are already out in the raised beds. Got lots of hanging pots with flower seedlings to put out on Thursday too. Friday I'm taking my DIL with me to go plant shopping because I am sure there will be bare spots left for me to fill and I am also treating her to the plants she needs for her back garden.

Really all I could do today was a little walk around in the rain (45f) and figured out where most of the plants will go. ​

 

Got to say,just love everyones enthusiasm ..Int gardening flipping marvelous.

 

Potted up a few palms,kept the treeferns soaked,and planted the ever bearer stawberries into a couple of lengths of guttering.
What a day

 

Last week it rained on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It hasn't rained since. My pots already feel very dry. I think tomorrow evening I'm going to have to get my hosepipe out.

7 of my 9 Nerine bulbs are shooting. Fingers crossed for the other 2. There is plenty of time yet. In contrast, my Dutch irises look limp and lifeless. I can't see them shooting as they are. Hopefully by next year they will have acclimatised to their new home.

I'm waiting for my alliums to bloom so that I can see where to tidy up and re jiggle. They are 90% there. I will then have nerines, asters and aubrieta to plant out. That will be a job I can get stuck into.

G.

 

Yesterday I spent four hours strimming and mowing. It looks like I'm winning the battle against the bracken, there's very little coming up this year. This afternoon I should have been grass seeding various patches in the front lawns where a couple of trees and shrubs have been removed. That didn't happen, so after a natter with my neighbours I potted on tomato plants instead.

 

Anyone else feel stiff and cream crackered?

 

Bones and muscles catch up with us more mature gardeners @Jenny namaste

 

Feel like a herdsman whose just dismounted after a day in the saddle...

 

I know that feeling too but if we don't stay active we'll seize up completely.

 

I'm feeling OK. I usually do.

This morning I was up a ladder..well only about five steps by 9.30am, pruning the dying wisteria blooms. I spent a few hours watching tennis on the TV. The spectators in Rome were all wrapped up against the cold, would you believe? Then I did some shopping and a lot of watering of the front and back gardens and all the pots.

Sunday was a different thing. I was on my hands and knees for a couple of hours clearing the foliage of dozens of bluebells, so I was a bit stiff afterwards. But not for long.
Playing golf three times a week means that I'm walking more than four miles each time, actually nearer five, carrying a bag of clubs weighing 30lb. (No I'm not! I have a leccy trolley, you just have to point it in the right direction), but I stay reasonably fit.



A friend has one of these monitor things for his heart rate, which also counts the number of steps he makes. So he comfirmed what we do. I didn't think we walked that far as the course is only around 6,000 yards. But there's a fair bit of "to-ing and fro-ing" during a round

Mind you, I usually have, what a few others have, "the traditional pre-game bevarage," in the pro shop. A coffee and a couple of paracetamol.
That's because I'm still recovering from humping around our new 71 kilo stone fountain, I pulled something in my right arm installing it and it still twinges a bit, but it's getting better. I didn't tell my wife.

I'm lucky in that I've never had any serious illnesses or injuries. An appendicitis at age 11 and a dislocated shoulder in a league team game for my squash club at the time, at the age of forty. But I packed that all in when I reached 50.
I didn't take up golf until I was 60. I had a hip replacement at 69, just the one, it's the one I turned on playing hundreds of games of squash in my time. But I was back playing golf within seven weeks. You wouldn't know I'd had it done.

My wife says at 79, I should be slowing down. But there's "so much to do and so little time."

I think I'm in as good a shape as our youngest son who is 54. "His knees creak" when he goes upstairs, mind you, in his youth he played American football for ten years, so took quite a battering in that time, as all who play that game do..

So I guess I should count my blessings.