What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

Watering like a mad woman,picked a nice big punnet of Rasps,dug up Charlotte spuds for tomorrows dinner and cleaned the chooks out..that'll do for me

 

No gardening, no beach walks, no cycling, no kayaking . Just spending most of my days doing lots of painting and pouring. Some finishing touches today for items going to Beaumaris tomorrow and then concentrating on getting stuff ready for Thursday. Also, need a canvas to take to Holyhead. My house is the most horrendous mess everywhere . On top of all this two of the buns has a big scrap and Sebastian has a nasty bite wound to his eye. Going to need vet I think. Rabbits can be so loving to each and so violent sometimes.

 

Hope all went well @Verdun yesterday with your brother. As you sad it's very sad indeed.


@luciusmaximus , hope your poor bunny is alright they certainly can get a bit feisty at times.

 

Nice of you Upsy.....it went very well thanks. We talked about the family, what we did when younger, what we got up to, etc. When I got there he was bored and uncomfortable but we were soon laughing and joking. Sad, very sad, though because he will be going into a care home in his mid 60’s because a benign tumour behind his eye is causing a sort of dementia. I cannot get my head around him going into a care home
Ok, self inflicted; a lifelong alcoholic but it doesn’t make it any easier

 

Given my Roses a good dinner...a slack handful each of growmore and a good mulch of FYM,cut back more of the Geraniums,took cuttings of Helitropium and potted up some baby Spider plants,faffed with my tomato plants and stared at them for a bit ..as I do..
Been a good day for gardening hope it has for all yous too.

 

Just did a bit of tidying, pruned off a lot of shots off the wisterias, but left most of the "stringy" second blooms, they are always on much longer stems than the first blooms.




Gave the tea-house a good clean. It's only a thirty-two year old shed, made of untreated softwood and roofing ply, applied with many coats of a polymer paint. So I have to be frequently checking for any rot. There's a lot of bits where I used a jigsaw so these can be vulnerable. Some of these are hardly ever noticed.



If it's plywood, there's always the possibility of water penetrating between the laminations.

 

Today after a trip to the local GC I planted the lilac phlox I purchased. Following a period of recovery from doing cartwheels at having acquired a desired product I cut the grass and chopped my compassion rose back. Gave the conifer hedge a haircut too. Put in some lavender for flowers next year. Mostly running in and out to watch F1 and kept myself energised and hydrated with some of my 5 a day. Cider. Made with apples as I understand it

 

Cccccccider Cindy!
Knew there was something interesting about you :rasp:

 

@Verdun I agree it doesn't matter a jot does it if it is self inflicted. He may have gone off the straight and narrow but he didn't set out to purposely ruin his life. If he was young when he started I think we all tended to think that we were invincible in our teenage years. Trouble is our past catches up with us.
Carry on doing the grand job that you're doing, sharing your childhood past and creating lots of laughter. Keeping you both in my thoughts.

 

I know that I have deviated from the thread folks...sorry, but I think it's a justifiable one.

 

Kind of you Upsy. Appreciate them

 

No gardening but nice lunch by the beach
Areas of water for Nico and me to swim in too

Very hot....delightful if you’re used to it but a lot of visitors here now and some are going to have a lot of pain tonight. The sun is prob stronger here than where they come from and it shows....red skins that will blister in some cases.

Still picking tomatoes now ...just a few but every day for the past half week or so. Sweet Petite are ahead of GD and others and delicious. Certainly tastier than GD were the last couple of years

 

Ive done a test spray this morning on a friends lawn which is pretty poor at the moment with a new fertiliser. I should have done a before spray as I used a blue dye which has coloured the lawn but I’ve just been over and it’s so much greener already.
They claim it greens up quickly and again has a good level of seaweed.

 

Is it expensive liz the pot?
I guess the acid test is how long it stays green for

 

It’s not too bad, £80.63 with postage for 5ltr. You use between 5 and 7ml per litre of water. It’s thick so needs a bit of mixing before adding to the knapsack.
It’s a high 20.20.20 which I don’t normally go for but I’m trying it out to see how grass reacts as it’s got a good following.
I want to see if there is a flush of growth.
It’s called Nutrigem.