What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

It looks quite nice actually.
What is the smallest dial for?
Temperature or barometric pressure?
Average ripeness of the tomatoes?? (I would love that for the blackberries actually, sometimes they camouflage as ripe to trick me)

 

The small dial is temperature.
Just think it looks nice on the wall, I can actually see it from within the house, so it will be useful I think.

 

I only removed some more pak choi, I think we are getting a bit tired of it, and seeded some "perpetual spinach" instead.
It is a bit early actually, but this summer does not look very warm, and the veggies bed is quite shaded, so perhaps they will be happy there.

Also, I realized that my glass table makes for a great highlights reflector and backdrop too on overcast days.
If you happen to have one, do try this at home, it makes for pretty awesome looking vegetables.
These are straight from my phone.

 

I like the clock too. I've always had a hankering for a sundial. One of those big brass jobs but my pocketbook at the moment only allows for some sticks shoved in the ground.

Been deadheading daisies and cleaned up some of the rhubarb and lo and behold, found a little stem of clematis hanging on for dear life. Hopefully noe it is getting some sun, it will thrive.

I also got all the privacy slats into the fence so now I'm figuring out how to attach a ladder for the clematis.

 

Nice pictures Aldo,
It's great when you've had so much pak choi you can give it a rest!
For me i can rarely have too much of the stuff in my stir frys.. My spinach beet isn't ready yet but it's growing well and I'm looking forward to the harvest because it's the first year that I've sown it.

 

In truth I am not terribly good at leaf vegetables, so spinach, radish and part of the pak choi flowered. Still nice to eat, but the flavour is affected. When it is tender, I am very fond of Pak Choi too. That is one reason for clearing some space and planting easier "perpetual spinach" instead, let's hope

 

Today it rained all day, so I left the the garden to fend for itself.
Tomorrow I might collect more blackerries, apparently the weather will be a bit better.

 

Not much done in the garden because of the rain but I saw this wet, little creature on the path. Any ideas?

 

Easy, ☺ it's a low flying owl.

 

Initially dead heading and probably weeding. Then I'll see what needs doing, have to pick some beans. Oh and pick up empty plastic pots and move a few taller potted plants to sheltered corners ahead of tomorrows forecast winds.

 

Similar tasks here too

 

Yesterday we cut the privet hedge at the bottom of the garden. It’s quite thin, so you can see through it, and is slowly becoming a mixed hedge, with hazel, hawthorn, sweet chestnut etc coming in... I checked thoroughly for birds nesting first, so we knew that it was good to cut.

I started with the long-arm hedge cutter, doing as much as I could reach - the sides and half of the top, at around 2.5 metres. Then hubby came and did the far bits. He’s taller than me, and when there’s two of us, it’s safe to use a step-ladder. Ran the mower over the trimmings, which added another grass-box to the rapidly filling first compost bay!

Also did some deadheading, scattering of poppy and dianthus seeds as they set, and picked some runner beans.

 

A milestone for me today as I decided to harvest my own compost for the first time.





I was struggling to make room for the fresh grass cuttings on the top. I might have done it sooner but I had to tidy up the area in front of the composter (which was buried in nettles) before I could open the flap.

My garden has been a bit neglected this year due to one reason or other, apathy and being wanted elsewhere being the main ones. In the last few weeks I have pulled my finger out and now my garden is looking about as good as it can. At least now I can see the areas that need working on.


Completing the play area has given me the incentive to move up to the next section. Today I have weeded it and forked in a barrow full of compost and a barrow full of bark chippings. I don't have plants to go in it yet so I will have to keep it tidy .

G.