What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

My mate Rob came round earlier, amazing what two of you can do working hard together. Turf completely gone in just under an hour!

Nick

 

Thanks @ARMANDII, was going to add a couple of bags of MPC and about five large bags of manure to improve the soil, everyone seems to think manure is the best thing to open up heavy clay soil. Quite a bit of grit too to make it easier to dig, it goes from concrete when dry to mud when wet! Then my mate's coming round again to rotorvate the whole area, should make working the soil a much easier task.

Nick

 

Not been on for a while but it looks like everyone is keeping busy I've enjoyed catching up on the thread. We managed to trim next doors overhanging hedge. I've got 4 large piles that I'm slowly filling the garden bin up with. I also widened the borders a little. I was shaving half the plants when mowing it's been really hot over the past couple of days so just deadheading and watering. I bought a lovely buddleja but have yet to find a spot for it we are expecting thunderstorms this evening and into tomorrow so everything should get a good water .

 

Well, Barney the frog has prompted me to purchase a white and a pink water lilly, tap water treatment, algae treatment and a floating planter with 3 plants.

Watch my gallery for update pictures...

 

I feel for your back Nick! We also have very heavy clay soil and this bed took a week to dig. We dug the top spade deep under the turf out (to form a nice wall of china), dug deeper, added copious amounts of manure and mpc and now after two years the soil feels very good.

We used the kind of flexible edging strip and it has done a good job to keep most plants in the border and slightly less grass on that rather than lawn side. Theoretically it's also easy to mow, but as I have a lot of plants hanging over it it's mainly a theory.

Keep us posted on the planting please, the plan sounds great

 

We get toads in the garden, they don't tend to live near water unless it's the mating season.
Despite knowing where they live I still jump in surprise on finding one. They look like stones half buried in the soil. My Dad's garden has frogs in his pond.

 

It takes as long as it takes

 

Yesterday got two Crassula tetragona repotted into one pot and a Kalanchoe tomentosa repotted and they have been put in the "succulent corner" we are making in the hottest spot in the garden in front of the Jungle Room. Also potted on an Hibiscus sinensis Pagoda Red. Have the Hibiscus sinensis Albo to repot but it is about to open its first bloom ... so maybe tomorrow or next day. Also need to do another hanging basket (have twelve in total, different sizes.

Will do the baskets after haircut this aftennoon.

The H Albo yesterday ... the bud is bigger than the plant ...

 

So much for that ... T'other half watered and the whole thing fell off! The other day he touched the bud on the first H Pagoda Red and it fell off!

 

Potted on above-mentioned Hibiscus Albo and transferred the Aeschynanthus radicans (Lipstick Vine) from a plastic hanging pot it came in into a larger wire hanging planter with coconut lining.

Also cleared out three square concrete planters (with T'other Half's help as it is too much bending for me). These had been overrun by Osteospermums rooting themselves from the rockery behind. One has a Lavandula stoechas (Portuguese lavender), another a trailing Geranium which survived the strangulation and the third now empty.

I have taken an offshoot about 50cn tall from the base of one of the double pink Oleanders and have stripped the lower leaves to train it into a standard to put in the third pot. The base was cut in a couple of places and it is in water to root. This is what I am aiming for ...

 

Did some dead heading and a bit of tittivating very early this morning other than that chuff all..far too hot.