What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

Won’t be doing anything in the garden until late this afternoon but thereafter a whole lot of planting.
I’m like DHR it seems......I don’t suffer from my exertions in the garden but I also work at a brisk, if not frantic, pace to get things done ASAP

 

Well my injuries from yesterday’s gardening is mainly sunburn. Jeez my face and neck are radish red! Id even put sun suncream on in the morning and I thought with having my tan from thailand i’d have been ok. Make sure you cover up peeps!

This morning I am out planting the raised beds up with various purchases, self grown cuttings and donations from family and friends. I’ve got super duper suncream on, a hat, and even a hoody zipped up as its a bit chilly in the shade this early.

Have a lovely day everyone.

 

From early evening for a couple of hours I planted a group of sunpatiens magenta, verbena lollipop, leucanthemum purple velvet, a group of cosmos purity and removed untidy dead and dying daff foliage. Plenty of compost dug in and all thickly mulched. Still feeling pretty warm out there. Very satisfying....love the temporary “neatness” of clean ground and new planting
Pricked out zaluzianskya seedlings.....fantastic scent from early evening to sun up. Should have sown them earlier though so a tad behind this time last year for them.
Tomorrow I will collect another load of local compost and continue planting and mulching

 

Izzy (my dog) needed a quiet time today, as her back legs were a little wobbly last night.

So I did lots of “same place” tasks, so she could sleep nearby...

I weeded the three raised veg beds, as they were mainly unplanted since winter. Found lots of young rocket plants, annual poppies, snapdragon seedlings, and a pumpkin seedling. I also weeded the bigger, bulkier weeds (mainly relatives of dandelions) that were growing in between the beds, so it would be more comfortable to walk on.
I sowed some beans, both runner and dwarf.
I went through my seed box, found all the flower seeds that are past their use by dates, and scattered them around the garden, basically broadcast sowing. If they come up, they come up. If not, then they rot and compost down....
Gravel path around the back of the house was cleared of weeds, tree seedlings etc. Wallflowers dead headed.
In between, watched newts courting in the pond, as you so!!

 

I know exactly what you mean @Verdun !! I love the look of freshly mulched flower beds. So rich and dark looking.....and weed free too

 

Oh dear @Sian in Belgium , really hope that Izzy recovers soon .
I do that with old seeds too

 

Hope Izzy is ok @Sian in Belgium

 

It was "shopping day" today. So not much time for gardening or watching tennis on the TV.

So that was Waitrose for some chicken pieces and three crispy ducks to take advantage of the £8 off £40, voucher. Crispy ducks have been on "suspension" for two weeks according to an assistant when she checked her terminal, the last time I was in there three weeks ago. So I was glad they've been reprieved, so much so I bought their entire stock.

I've had to put the contents of our two back-up freezers in "the room," in the garage, on a spread sheet, to exercise a bit of stock control, so my wife doesn't order stuff we don't need. I'll keep a copy and she can tick off stuff she asks me to bring up. She can see what's in the Miele freezer in the kitchen herself.

I'm reminded of when the kids were at home. We had a big fridge in the kitchen and a chest freezer in the garage. If asked what the wanted for their evening meal, the usual answer was, particularly in the winter, "Anything that doesn't involve one of us having to go out of the house, down to garage and get it out of the freezer."

Then with the shopping, it was M&S, Tesco's, Home Bargains, Aldi and finally Saisbury's.
Although I don't mind doing the shopping because of her disabilty, I just wish there were fewer shops and they were closer together. Waitrose is miles away.

Anyway I had time to purchase some scrap MDF from a local woodyard, to put up two extra shelves in "the rabbit shed." You couldn't swing a cat in there before. The two back-up freezers that were in there I've moved to "the room" in the garage. This was until recently full of koi pool filters and the quarantine tank.

So there's a bit more order to my gardening equipment and things are easier to find.

 

A lot of planting done, started staking heleniums ( a lot to do) some weeding.
Started off cloudy but day gradually brightened and warmed up. Very pleasant

 

Was lut getting my knees dirty planting out and then potted up my Shiney Hybrids

 

Planted out salvia Guanajuato, a group of gaura papillion, some Felicia amelloides this evening and a couple of agastaches

 

Just keeping on top of watering at the moment, I could do with a day or two off from the lawn I am going a bit OTT with it but I want to mow it tomorrow so its coming on now just a tad thin in areas but hopefully by July its in excellent condition. Planted out a few plants last night astantia H blood - Rodgersia Bronze peacock lovely dark foliage when young, potted on a couple of other plants to.

Got a plant order arriving tomorrow not much just a couple of Agastache Black adder another Pervoskia and a Selinum Wallichanium.

 

I watered everything last night. Despite last week's rain, the ground is conspicuously cracking up. Today was a bit cooler and more overcast. Its possible that more rain is on it's way.

I was given a baby gooseberry bush which I have potted on. I dont have anywhere for it to go so ultimately it is going to have to live in a pot. My mum gave me it so I am going to have to keep it. At least for now it is too small to cause an issue.

My hedges were trimmed today. Before I noticed the hedges I noticed that some of my plants had been flattened. I guess when I rejig I will have to leave a buffer zone. It shouldn't spoil the overall aesthetics of the area.

G.