What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Talking of great recipes, here’s the recipe for another discovery of the week - courgette pesto...

Recette de Pesto de courgettes

I’m sure that there are others who can translate the recipe properly, but this is what I did (and it tastes fantastic!)
2 dozen basil leaves
1 clove garlic
Sea salt
30g pine nuts
50g grated Parmesan
1/2 wine-glass olive oil
Ground pepper
1 dessert spoon honey
1 courgette

- put basil, roughly chopped garlic, a few grains salt, pine nuts and Parmesan in a food processor, and whizz, adding the oil, little by little, until a thick paste.
- slice the courgette and soften slightly in a microwave (I did 30 secs)
- add to the mix in the processor and blend until the desired consistency.

We ate this like a relish/salsa with a salad, spooned on tagliatelle for a simple supper, and as a thin “seasoning” spread (ie like chutney or mayonnaise) sandwiches. Excellent, every which way!

 

Sian, thank you very much for the recipes. I will definitely try to use it as soon as I find a rabbit for that. No rabbit in our supermarkets and a lot of butchers sell rabbit meat for cats.
I do not know the difference. Are they supposed to be better because they are for cats? Lol

 

No idea, to be honest! Here in Belgium we sometimes have a jointed rabbit in the prepared section of the butchery counter, but then 'lapin á la Kriek' is a national speciality...
I would go to my regular independent butcher ( may need to ask around for recommendations...), and ask for a jointed rabbit for your pot!

 

We've had two days of rains and strong winds today so as my autumn scene is dominated by poorly supported dinnerplate Dahlias and Gladioli, gardening has been like in story books. Going out and gathering armfuls of lovely flowers to arrange in vases around the house. (And after an hour or so, comforting the screaming Teenager and carrying out the baby slugs, bugs and spiders that fell out from the blooms on the kitchen table).

(Edit- tonight's harvest waiting to be distributed around the house. )




I have been tinkering with my solar powered water pump to find the optimum height of the tube to allow the pump to sit low so that the water level won't fall too low too quickly, whilst maintaining enough power to spray to a nice height. More tinkering and improvised solutions to be tested this weekend. My favourite.

 

Been tidying up the garden ready for the end of the season for the last few days. Planted a few pots with layers of bulbs and topped them with some nice colourful pansies, violas and primulas etc.

Took a load of cuttings this afternoon. Various salvias, penstemons etc. Need to have a good tidy up of my greenhouse tomorrow as it's an absolute tip!

Been planning for our next project...we picked up an Anderson Shelter the other week and going to make it into a garden tool shed.

 

Hi all, I haven't done anything incredibly exciting recently. Keeping the lawn mowed and deadheading. Most of the garden is still in flower all though the mornings/evenings are becoming much colder now. I have taken some salvia and penstemon cuttings and sewn some Delphinium seeds. I'm super super pleased with how the Clematis have settled in and I bought 3 lovely big pots from a lady who's emigrating to Australia but I don't think I'll be putting anything in them until next year. I like the idea of some small colourful trees so just doing a little research into those. I like the idea of something that would give some winter colour. Exciting

 

What I am doing in the garden now could sound strange but slowly slowly I am trying to get rid of one of my conifer trees and trim the second one. (Sorry I don't know their names) When I planted them about 17 years ago they were small, looked very cute and it has never occurred to me
that very soon they will be huge trees of about 4 and 5 m. My garden is rather small and to have such big conifer trees us a nuisance. 10 years ago I started trimming branches of the largest one and cutting all the bottom branches. Now its branches start from 2m and higher. So I am trying to continue trimming this tree. But I decided to get rid of the other one cutting off its branches. At the moment only the top ones are left at the hight if about 2.5 m. Then I sort of shred the branches into about 2" pieces to be able to mulch my pots with them.

 

Thank you @shiney I'm going to look into the 1st and 3rd you reccomended they are lovely

 

This afternoon dug up the plants in 3 big tubs that had fuchsias, trailing geraniums and fleabane in. Put them In pots to over winter in the lean to greenhouse. In the big tubs planted tulip and hyacinth bulbs with of course 3 wallflowers and 4 polyanthus.

 

Finished some reflective panels for a light box for seedlings in the greenhouse, I need something light, portable and storeable as I don't have a great deal of spare space in there.

 

That's very good Mazambo, i make that with a cardboard box opened up and cover it with tin foil stuck down the edges with selotape, got the idea from Chris Hamilton on gardeners world so long ago now.

 

Last few cold nights have prompted the start of the autumn transhumance into the greenhouse.
Most of the time spent taking up old decking boards prior to replacing with composite boards.