What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

I use toilet rolls....much softer than newspaper

 

Lawns mown....been a gorgeous day since late morning ...and some planting done. Cut several clumps of geum Totally Tangerine hard back......they have performed well since early spring and now I want nearby summer plants to take over.

Went to see an old friend who now has Parkinsons. His brother was over from Ireland so good to see them both again.

 

I recently cut my geum totally tangerine back hard. I hadn't kept up with dead heading it and it was starting to look straggly.

G.

 

Although it rained overnight it stayed dry all day. So when I came home from golf I fed both lawns, I use a cheap soluble lawn feed from Wilkos, it's quite effective. I gave all the pots a feed, the roses a foliar feed spray and did a bit of dead-heading. Everything is growing nicely, particularly the new rockery plants.
Killed six lily beetles.
I need to do some more quince pruning tomorrow and tie down some more of the Myleen clematis hanging down over the front door.

 

I watch very little on TV gardening etc. I'm not disputing the personalities may have great know how, but it really gets on my wick with all the arm and hand gestures, and the often excited voices. Makes me wonder at times, what team they are batting for. So often it's like seeing Ken Dodd and his tickling stick.....Oh! what a grand day.

 

Will get more local compost.....for planting out and mulching lettuce in the veg patch and further planting. I think the peas may be ready for picking too.

Planting up container for my niece too.....gaura papillion and sunpatiens magenta.
A lovely day in prospect.....I hope

 

Picked black currants, dug up a hellebore that wasn’t as good as others I have and replaced with a group of agastache Tangerine, and then sat in the sun with a cider

 

Planted out some of the cosmos and the rest of the snapdragons

 

I sorted the Mayleen. A bit of a battle as it wants to grow upwards, but I want it to be different.

 

Sowed the rest of the wallflower seeds and did some watering.

 

Hot, hot day
Picked salad stuff, strawberries, gooseberries, peas and beetroot.
Watered plants in containers

 

Gave our three quinces on the side fence a bit of a prune. I had to go next door to attack the bits growing over the fence. Easy to get to from there, as they 've just lawn all down that side.

Used my Barnel telescopic pruners to get at them from my side. So I didn't have to stand in the border.
Some branches were two feet above the top of the fence.

Filled half the green bin.







It needs to be done as they grow like mad, both upwards, over the fence and towards the azaleas and rhodos. In a "straight fight" a quince will always beat both.

I don't like them to grow tall as the block out some of the sun on plants in that border, for much out of the day.

Still a bit to do, but your arm starts to ache after a bit when the pruner is extended.

The pruning improves the aspect as you look down the garden, as they aren't so dominant.

 

Given the forecasted armageddon that's **supposed** to be hitting us over the next few days, I'm going to be staking/supporting my Echinops as it's over 6ft tall! I'll also be tackling the bramble/nettle/jungle that has grown around our sheds. We're changing one shed either later this summer or early spring, so I want to get the area cleared to be able to get a decent visualisation of how we want the area to look.
Our oil tank is also situated by the sheds, so need to clear around that too! I'll take before & after pics and put them on my Old Cottage Garden thread when it's done.

 

A glorious morning, a glorious day to come
Last evening I planted gaura Rosy Jane, Gazanias, hordeum, salvia uliginosa a s pruned Baptisia Dutch Chocolate.
Apart from lawn mowing later I will be busy elsewhere but still enjoying the great outdoors