What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Eventually came to my senses. Don't like taking too many painkillers. So returned to my homeopathic medicine cupboard. One Rhus Tox tablet, five minutes later pain gone. Talk about, physician heal thyself.

Yestutday made concerted effort to get into garden and pot-up new roses. Did one and it poured down. Bad back pain due to none activity for some time.

Today planned to try again with potting roses. Oh no. Raining heavy again. Soon stopped. No time wasted, and all roses potted up. I went back in doors giving myself a proverbial pat on the back.

 

Just ordered online some 15Ltr pots. Ten for £16+ I think that's cheap. B&Q cost the earth. I ususally deal with Oakwood Gardens, but at the mo, they don't appear to be advertising on ebay.

 

Yes it's very important to keep feeders and bird baths clean. I've had finches suffering and dying from this disease this year and also lost the four Yellowhammers that visited the garden. Pigeons and larger birds seem to have remained healthy.

Trichomonosis | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology

It's a cruel disease and birds suffer for days before they succumb. With each bout I closed down my feeding station and bird bath completely for the three recommended weeks and disinfected both. Birds fly from garden to garden in search of food so it's possible it's being picked up from other places. It is most prevalent when birds are rearing and feeding their young so it's important not only to keep a close eye on them but to "up" cleaning at this time.

I really missed the birds visiting but it's a case of being, or seeming to be cruel to be kind.

 

Nothing today it's raining again.

 

first time on the forum so not sure where to post messages. can anyone recommend a good variety of sprout for next year. having waited 6 months for my sprouts although i got good height and foliage the sprouts were very poor. its very annoying to give up space and time to have a poor harvest. the chickens enjoyed the leaves so not all lost

 

Hi John and welcome to GC forums

 

Moved a baby oak tree in the garden today. Only about a metre tall but still had a very strong root and must be over two years old I think and maybe three. No space for it where it sprouted so it had to go somewhere else and found a good spot for it on the edge of the wildest area of the garden that is dominated by brambles so hope it will eventually help keep them a bit under control. Also dug out some rooted guelder rose lower branches/suckers and put the biggest section of these in the hole the oak sapling came out of and planted the others in a few areas of the garden that have no guelder rose growing before now as I think it is a plant well worth having a few more of. Lots of rain forecast, so a good time for moving things about.
Happy gardening!

 

Would one of these help, @shiney? Wolf do lots of different exchangeable heads for two different
lengths of handle



or this?

 

Installed some trellis - to make a sort of porch area before entering the back garden - from the back gate. Planning to make some troughs and planting honeysuckle halliana to climb over the trellis. The ground under the patio is solid clay - nothing will grow in it unfortunately.

Yer tiz:

 

That's a great idea @clanless

@shiney I wonder if you could vacuum the leaves up, I do it sometimes to my Euphorbia milii when they get inside the spiny stems.