What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Once again trying to salvage battered storm damaged plants!!! 5 Cosmos needed broken bits removed and restaking, 1 was so bad that
the best thing was to remove it completely.1 of the big Pink Dahlias was broken in half.
Swept up all the acorns from the patios too.

 

We have a similar problem with our windfall apples. I normally wait for a cool/cold morning, and clear a trug-full by hand ... very, very carefully (and wearing gloves).

 

We have the same problem too, more so around our plum trees rather than pear/ apples. The ground is covered with wasps, I tried to clear some of the area yesterday by gentle raking, but had to beat a hasty retreat!!!

 

Morning all

Much nicer weather today

Just spent an hour and a half nursing and repairing the flowers and shrubs in the front garden (24 pots in total) roses, bay trees, rosemary, geraniums, begonias, hydrangea, fuchsia and various flowering ground cover. Repotted some shrubs, tidied the geraniums but the large begonias are all floppy and not happy at all. So turned the pots around (no mean feat, these are very large pots) and the ivy and geraniums are now at the front and all is looking happier and tidier. Gave everything some all purpose food, hoping for some more sunshine to settle them down, but we are forecast rain this afternoon and tomorrow

Not strictly a garden job, but the bin men came while I was out there so once they’d finished I gave the food waste and bottles/cans bins a good hose down and slosh about with some jeyes fluid.

Hoping to find time to sow some winter flowering pansies later this afternoon, packet says sow any time June to December in cooler conditions. This is my first time so I’ll just sow a few and keep an eye on them, maybe leave them in the garage until they germinate.

Happy Thursday
Tink

 

Nothing today it's raining.

 

This weekend: empty compost heap, prune Buddleja fallownia and davidii as they are finished flowering, try and take cuttings from a couple of shrubs that have taken a turn for the worse.
Dead heading, weeding, might get the grasscut today or Monday. Tidy up the bed where the neighbours had a fence put up, dig over the trodden down soil. prune broken plants and more work on new bed.

 

Busy then @NigelJ !

More like a duvet day here with the weather

I plan to cobble together (screw, stitch and glue) a frame and clear plastic cover for my small vegtrug (raised bed). Still hoping to get some winter flowering pansy seeds sown, got side tracked on Thursday!

Have a good weekend out there.

 

This afternoon did a bit more weeding and pulling up the calendula.

 

I am fixing a polytunnel in one of my friends garden

 

Weeding round the roses - planted a new climbing rose over our new arch and generally tidying now the rain has stopped.