What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Congratulations!!

 

Another step closer to finishing my children's
play area.

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Oh dear, I've never heard of fire blight. I lost an acer which looked like that.....also all my broad beans and also heucheras :-(

 

Oh WOW! Love those flowers. Are they hard to grow?

 

You are all so much further ahead than here! I have been out checking any progress

Here is my valiant attempt to protect my precious few peas and beans from marauders! Necessity being the mother of many things.. The red organza is semi transparent so works well... This is at the sheltered front so just a glimpse of ocean

 

My neighbour split her gigantic Angel Wings plants so I've been potting them up. 6 new plants for free

just sat in the front garden looking at the birds and the plants. Strangely Viburnum Charles Lamont is flowering. It's only supposed to flower Nov-March On most of the plants, including the viburnum, are the blasted aphids. I have directed a couple of ladybirds in their direction.

has anyone here bought ladybirds to help control them? And if so, were they successful?

 

No they're not hard to grow, but i have to pot them on before i plant them out because a lot of them tend to have some sort of disease, a bit like club root, it must be in the soil.

 

This is/was the blauwschokker peas before the ??magpies?? stole them. They are excellent by the way; 8 really sweet peas per pod. My long war against these ******** will continue !

 

I have no direct experience but I read that ladybirds tend to move after a while. Apparently coccinellidae can and do travel miles outdoor, so they sound like a good solution for greenhouses perhaps, but not a very permanent one for a garden.

I guess planting flowers which are known to attract ladybirds and false wasps (flies which camouflage as wasps, their larvae eats aphids) is a good solution, but of course not a very useful one if you need results quickly.
Perhaps check if there are ants nests close,given the ants farm aphids.

Have you tried already with the usual mixes of soap and other household items which are sometimes recommended?
I do not normally use any pesticide in the garden, but I bought something on amazon for a few plants badly affected. If it works I'll mention it here.

 

I managed to add yet another wire to the entrance path bed, so now we will have pumpkins and squashes hanging over 7 feet high, or so I hope anyway
I really wonder what people think passing by, it is quite rare to see vegetables in the front gardens and borders over here.

 

Thanks @Aldo , I did think the ladybirds would just fly away -like you say, probably just best for greenhouses. Ah yes we have LOADS of ants. Blasted things.

ah I will try the soapy solution-I forgot about that. i do have SB Invigorator spray which is very good but i dont want to be spraying that everyday.

 

If you sow Wallflowers in early summer @Islander77, keep potting them up and pinching them out you then plant them out in mid/ late September. They then go dormant and spring into life in early spring time.
I have sowed mine ,although I also keep most of mine in the borders to flower again the following year. I just cut them back after they have bloomed and they put on new lush green growth that make handy fillers in my summertime borders.