What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Yes - typo. Less haste, more speed and all that (he says - checking all the spelling)

Going back some time, one of the girls in the office was sending out letter to engineers. It was full of autocorrected words. It changed netware to interwar. Cant remember the rest but the letter made no sense but her theory was that autocorrect knew more than she did.

 

I've planted a hedge of Portuguese Laurel to try to separate the garden into 2. I'm praying to the Laurel gods they survive. I'm dying to get sewing some seeds I collected last year Snapdragon, and Delphinium but I'm really struggling to get compost at the moment. I did try some in normal garden soil a couple of weeks ago but nothing. It's so frustrating.

 

@Fat Controller thanks so much. I've just had a look there is one 4 miles away (new to the area) it's open from 9am so I'll pop there in the morning. Our local is a J parker's but they have closed until further notice.
Thanks again

 

Brilliant... I'll have a look now......I'll queue as long as it takes ha I just need compost

 

I've been admiring the Hostas and Geraniums that you kindly sent me, today , @ARMANDII. I've been out slug and snail picking the last three nights as I'm determined that they won't suffer the same fate as the Iris and Clematis have this year. 30 big orange slugs on one Clematis! After the first night, I hunted out some latex gloves....they save a lot of hand scrubbing afterwards
The Cayeux catalogue is addictive, isn't it? Let us know if you need GC members to do a whip-round for your Bank Manager

 

Loved Egypt, visited four times Particularly loved Tutankhamun's tomb, Abu Simbel and Kalabsha temples.

@Selleri I'm digging a royal burial chamber for Roger and Dimitris

 

I'm a little confused @luciusmaximus. Do you mean replacement of septic tanks as you have mentioned soakaways as plural?

 

I made a raised bed and partially fitted it with insects netting, the rest will have to wait tomorrow.
This location does not get much sun, but last years, over june-august, it worked fine with radish, carrots and fennel. But the slugs destroyed them all.
So I am trying enclosing it completely in netting, with some velcro to remove it all quickly.
Then probably there are slug eggs in the soil, and I will end up using nemoatodes anyway, but worth a shot.




Made bread with my own wheat..
Ok, that's a lie, I do not grow wheat so I made bread with store bought flour, but I needed to tell somebody and this is a gardening forum :D
It was good though and the family wolfed it down, as per the image


Made a few trays to size for my greenhouse shelves, so to fit soil blocks.
Tomorrow we will finally get to making the actual blocks out of mud.
I suspect it will end up being the only gardening activity my kid will actually enjoy :D
They look a bit trash, which is fair enough, given they are made out of trash, but they should work well enough.

 

Thes warm days are bringing the weeds up, thick and fast. As much as I'd like to grow my own veg, I have neither the need or the space. My friendly fox, is taking care of the double digging. Sorry foxy, not there please....never mind.

I notice a lot of willowherb growing on the mound of water-lily. To be honest. I'm wondering if I will ever get my garden back. To the left, the downstairs neighbour appears to have given up. She isn't even bothering to cut the grass in the front garden, and the communial path is becoming overgrown with her weeds etc. Her back garden is a tip. Various stuff is growing through my fence, Ivy, jasmine, holly you name it. Next door the other side. The young chap who is now shacked up with the young woman. He worked hard and cleared the garden. Now it's full of brambles and whatever. Plus the dreaded bindweed is tugging at the fence.

Just imagine. Somewhere a keen gardener is living on the 18th floor of a tower block, just wishing for a garden.

 

Spent yesterday morning weeding and rearranging a few things in the raised borders along the kitchen patio.

Didn't bother with any Sweet Peas this year but decided that I now want a climber after all so chucked some Morning Glory seeds into a pot.... a tad late now I think.

Emptied out our remaining large pots in readiness for when we collect our bags of compost on Wednesday.

Planted out the Peacock Orchid bulbs. They are very fickle and didn't bloom last year ....so fingers crossed.

Started to remove the spent Tulips. They will join the Daffs.

Did some more pricking out.....certainly non stop out in the garden now. But I love it!!!

 

Hi @Upsydaisy ,

Now is the perfect time to sow Morning Glory seeds.
I did mine on Friday, both the climbing Ipomea and the shorter , bushier Convulvulus and they're already through. The trick is to sow them late ( usually end of April beginning of May ) so that they can be planted outside after risk of frost. If you do them too early you end up with 2' gangly twining stems that never really take off when planted out.

Do you mean Acidanthera with Peacock Orchids ? If so then I agree with you, very very fickle. I gave up on them a couple of years ago. They would never flower for me except for one and that always came out with horrible pinky streaks and blotches on it.