What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

In the spring I planted 2 varieties of crocosmia. Neither of them are showing any signs of life.

G.

 

No Worries @Verdun I'll divide them but keep it containerised as are the other 2 pots...I have a few large pots kicking about they'll be hidden anyway so no one will notice they are not in the ground.. I do like "Lucifer" though.

 

@Nikolaos, a girl can't have too many wallflowers
I plant them all around the path which need about a 100 or so. The rest in some pots and in other places in the front garden.

 

I have to disagree. Putting the burden on neighbours who are probably working as well is a bit much. When I get too old to maintain things, I feel it only right that I should hire someone to help. Just not at extortionate rates if possible. Even now, I'm waiting for an arborist to come around and chop down a mostly dead tree. I'm not going to attempt that!

I've just finished watering some of my potted plants and later will get back to weeding.

 

Did you plant small corms Gary? They can often be slow to show above ground. Divisions are usually more reliable without setback to growth or flowering

300 wallflowers is a lot Upsy, even for me! 80 or so is about right for me.
They were pricked out a few weeks back and will be planted out in the veg garden as space allows. Over the autumn they will be moved to their final positions. I grow them on as specimen plants, 70 to 90 cm or so bushy plants.
Do you grow stocks Upsy? I treat them as I do the wallflowers. They add fantastic scent over late winter into spring

Re elderly neighbours I look out for one or two near to me. In return, I often get the odd cider, lager, box of chops and even a couple of salvias I didn’t have before. Quid pro quo. And a nice feeling

 

@Logan It just cracks me up how specific enthusiastic gardeners can be sometimes, not "about 300" but exactly 301 have germinated! Don't exclude that one, you'll upset it... Hope more germinate rapidly and that you soon have 352.

Nick

 

We’ve got a work BBQ here on Saturday (of course, the first rain for a month is forecast for tomorrow and Saturday!!)....

So I’m pottering in the garden, “titivating” the plants, as Dad would have said. Removing dead leaves from the day lilies, along with dead flowers. Pulling out the darkened stems of the forget me nots, now that their seeds have fallen. Taking dead leaves off the pond plants. Just a slow tidy up!

The grass was cut yesterday, and I’ll do the edges this afternoon, which will take forever!

I’m hoping that I can get things looking good, so I have time to do some “actual” gardening. Many of my chilli plants need potting on. Even the largest are in just a 1 litre pot, so they all need to move up!

 

Until those stumps are sorted Shiney, could you plant crocosmia in that area?

Another order from Ballyrobert arriving tomorrow. Ordered last night, posted today. Again, though such plants will be potted on, grown on and planted out in the autumn ...in their “perfect” spot! (Those few weeks will give me time to work out exactly where that spot is

Fingers crossed Sian that the weather will be fine for you. Here we have possible showers today but summer returns again on Friday for several days. Hopefully ditto for you

 

I’m relaxing at my companions place, she’s on her way home after a weeks holiday down in Cornwall. Thought I had better get the grass cut before she gets back.
This year I’m trying different feeds and so far the lawn is coming on well.

 

Looking good liz the pot....a great ad for why a lawn is such an asset to the garden

Picked my first tomatoes....Sweet Petite. Delicious. Picked blueberries, strawberries and more carrots and spring onions. Mainly cloudy but when the sun pops out it is hot. Humid.

 

Thanks, it looks a bit rough as I had just walked over it spraying some seaweed as a base treatment after the cut. Hoping tomorrow a new fertiliser will arrive that I’ve ordered so I can get that down. Her lawn is going to be used to see how it goes and I’ve a couple of customers who have said yes to some free treatments to see how it handles good to poor lawns as not all my customers have treatments.