What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Planted out some of the snapdragons but the ground is so dry I had to put a lot of water on them. Had to water all the hellebores they started wilting and all the rhubarb.

 

When you know what you are doing, lots of things feel easy, I guess

 

We are having another of what BBC weather calls "Gentle Breeze".
This tipically involves my rubbish bins springing legs and damage to the plants, now that they are still small.
One freshly planted courgette ended up with a broken stem, which is a pity because it was doing very well and I think the companion will not be productive all alone. But I should have a spare still in its pot.

Tomorrow it says "fresh breeze", so I will secure some other plants which are at risk.

 

Spent most of the day staking up more vulnerable plants and rescuing others that are suffering in this hurricane of a ' gentle breeze'

 

The only thing I have done today Is run around grabbing pots and tying things down whilst hurricane what ever it's called rips everything up. what is interesting is that a Delphinium stem has been blown out of a clay pot onto the floor and it has no root so I'll have to have a dig in the pot and see if there's anything lurking in there. Strange as it has buds and is just about to flower. Hopefully not Mr Weevil thankfully I tried the greenhouse down too. So I'll spend the rest of the day running in and out like a woman possessed

 

@ARMANDII you're Iris collection is truly amazing and your passion shines through in your posts and photos. Thanks for sharing them. They have raised my interest. I haven't yet looked at growing Iris and don't know much about them however watching Chelsea this week a Domino Noir was featured and it made my jaw drop ......and made me promise myself that they are definitely worth giving a go. I'm going to have a look in my gardening book later and have a look into them.

 

Today I didn’t do much in the garden. I watered the veg bed, and the roses I moved yesterday (in the spitting, ineffectual rain). I also weeded the church garden beds, before going round to a friend’s house, who is about to move back to the States. She needed to find a new home for her houseplants, so I have a box and a trug full of various houseplants, waiting to be sorted out. Aloe Vera plants, an African violet, some basic house palms (the tiddler ones) a big palm - well over a metre tall! and some peperomia plants. I’ll leave them for a couple of days, before sorting them out and potting them on/merging them/propagating from them. A few I will keep, the rest I will grow on to sell to raise money for the students connected to the church. Many started their degree aiming to fund, at least in part, with bar-work, etc. They are now really struggling, and we want to do something to help....

 

Ohh, I am a few bricks short of a wall myself, all I ever achieved was out of perseverance, so I often cannot tell the difference between real smart people and the patient and dedicated..
Neither can plants, apparently

 

@ARMANDII credit where it's due they are gorgeous.

unnamed ? I'm thinking this means you have created them?

 

Planted 4 courgettes in a 120l planter. A bit too crowded perhaps, but I am runnign out of space quickly..
Two are courzelle and two are from californian seeds. First time growing both, and most of the soil is from last year, potting soil and perlite now mixed with blood and bones. But I only grew strawberries in it, and the planter is 40 cm deep, so probably the soil is not entirely spent.

Also, I cleared entirely a two metres section of our edge and put four large pots in it. I suspect the neighbours will not like it much, because they have no plants on their side and it leaves a big gap, now that the rest of the edge is growing vigorously.
But the new plants should fill the gap soon enough, it is the only place getting sunlight all day long. For the moment I put in a tromboncino, a bush tomato and a "surething" courgette. I might try cucamelons and cucumbers, but it could be a bit too windy for them.

Also, while watering the strawberries I found.. a chicken

I mean, the Sainsbury, packaged, variety.. Lying just in front of my planter. I rubbed my eyes, for a second I actually considered if somebody might have lost it, it looked unreal on my lawn :D
But my garden is completely enclosed and far from any roads. Unless now Sainsbury delivers by catapult (lockdown and all, who knows :D ) somebody must have dropped it there.
Perhaps some marital dispute? He missed once again to trim the edge and, unable to give him the beef, she hurled a whole chicken at his head instead? Toddlers in lockdown who never eat their roast found a new use for their seesaw?

We will never know..