What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

I use a little Deep Heat on my back each morning, make sure you wash your hands before rubbing your eyes though.

 

Lovely and sunny here today but still very windy and cold.
Builders are here and fencing should be finished today. No major work was done yesterday as the boss just came for an hour or so and finished painting the first set of lats on the inside and painted all the planks of wood ready for cutting and putting straight up today. About 1/5th already done this morning so hoping it'll all be done. Maybe they will be painting all the outside of it tomorrow.

Been down to the greenhouse this morning and put my lights on to give the seedlings an extra boost. All the cosmos has germinated, and the nicotiana has just started sprouting through. About 30% of the clary sage has sprouted. Leeks showing no signs of life yet.

 

Today is the start of silly season, just grabbing a cuppa, its pricking out seed grown plugs day, 6 packs of argeratum, allysum, mesembryanthemum, and the new downy mildew resistance Beacon busy lizzie, also pricked out cleome in 4 colours, and division of some perennials. After a cuppa, move on to second round of seeding, pack bedding verbena, petunia, phlox popstars, marigolds etc.
Then this evening got to transplant 9cm perennial liners into their retail pots. Then its beer and kebab time.

 

I'm going to finish mixing the soil in the hanging pots and start sewing seeds in them. Nicotiana, salvia, etc. That will be done this morning. And I have finished making soil blocks to fill the last of my little trays and started seeds in those. I believe this morning I will have finished sowing all of the seeds that need to be started indoors. I will be double checking what is in the binder to make sure I haven't missed a packet that needs to be started early.

I need to get things cleared up a bit as some friends had a fire at their place and are without power. I've offered for them to stay here. They might not take me up on my offer but if they do, I want to be ready.

 

Not done much so far, apart from repair my washing line a few times...

 

My friends are being put up in a hotel by the insurance company so they won't be staying with me but I did give them the code to my front door in case they want to do laundry or cook something or whatever.

Back to gardening jobs - ARGHHHH!!! Why did I leave the automatic openers in the greenhouses over the winter, one of them no longer works as the cylinder must have frozen too hard and cracked. Ordered a replacement but still angry with myself

Oh well, back to seed sowing...

 

Ta da! All done. They did an immaculate job! Lovely lads! just waiting for car port planning application now.
this weekend i’ll be digging over the front border and digging in the new soil conditioner ready for the trees to be going in the front. Woop woop!

 

Looks fabulous @Snorky85

 

Thank you @Upsydaisy My face is beaming! I’m so happy! Not been this happy in ages! I’ve never needed privacy so much. It’s worth every penny!

 

Been at my Dad's all day and spent a lovely afternoon in his garden.
I sowed all of his Wildlife garden, being watched by some beady eyed birds that swooped in for a snack as soon as I walked away!!

Then weeded out some newly erupting G E from one of his longest borders, direct sowing some more seeds as I went.....more snacking for the birds.

Checked over all the over wintering plants in his greenhouse and gave them all a drink.
Gave his Lemon Tree a Winter Citrus feed too.

 

I can see you!!

 

Ooh good reminder upsy....must feed the lemon tree.

 

Nothing is as valuable as privacy @Snorky85 and I am so glad you got it resolved. I'll never forget the day the hillbillies next door built a surround for their barbecue which they had positioned directly opposite my over the kitchen sink window. As soon as I saw it I did a happy dance all over the kitchen