What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Pics?????

 

Get another bigger one!!

 

On the way back from Chester today I stopped off at the Northwich B&Q to pick up a trough for the Strawberry plants that I'd bought earlier this month and a 6' steel pole to put in the new site I have chosen for the Garden Weather Station in the Lawn border.
My idea is to put the new pole firmly in place, with the aid of a Lump Hammer, and then uproot the Weather Station, from the "walk around border", on it's present pole and reattach it to the new pole using "U" bolts to secure it and then realign it pointing to the North.
The reason I'm moving the Weather Station is to make way for the Statue and Plinth that should, hopefully, arrive just before Christmas or just after it and, I think, a modern steel pole and device would look odd sitting next to a more "old fashioned" informal Statue and Plinth .
I also bought 5 thin steel 4' rods to make supports for the Chicken Wire Leaf Mould Bin that I'm going to construct on the area under the Acer Brilliantissismum and Clematis "Armandii where most of the leaves seem to accumulate........I'm never short of a job in the garden

 

Needs some pointing and soils levels all around need levelling but once complete it should do

 

Yep, about 5m wide I think so really opens out the room when fully opened.

Have just been out measuring the greenhouse as a practice, will now take that and stick into CAD. It's like a quick tester before asking people for cash money to do the work for them...

 

@Loofah patio looking good.

Looks a bit like Indian Sandstone.

 

Cut back all the Dahlias, cleared four barrows of leaves from the Dahlia bed, filled 4 doz pots with compost for Mrs S to transfer seedlings into. Cleaned and put away most of the garden chairs and going to have lunch and then office work.

 

Close, it's a limestone. Probably need sealing next year when it's dry.

Dug the leaf blower / vac out a attached the grounds. Turned around and the leaves were falling as fast as I cleared them!

 

I used a sealant once. It was very expensive and only lasted 12-18 months. Since then I've used Wet and Forget. It's not a sealant but it has a gradual action on the algae etc. that forms on the stone and keeps it clear for quite a while. It's good for using as a preventative or as a cleaner on stone that has already got algae and mould. I removed the surface dirt first then sprayed it on. It took a few months to work as my paving was quite dirty by the time I found out about it. It's non-toxic.

I put a few pics on this thread
Patio, slab, concrete cleaner