What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK2..

My raspberries have been fantastic this year, but they'd more or less finished so I've cut back all the spent stems and tied in all the new growth to tidy them. They've also had a top dressing of chicken manure pellets and a good soaking...job done

 

What variety are you growing Bilbo? We are picking a glut of "Tulameen" at our nearby PYO. They are phenomenal!! And taste divine too,

 

Just having a 'tea' break...before i pin my strawberry runners down...it's a great day for it

 

I have Glen Moy and they have cropped very heavily this year and the taste has been at its best too....

 

Packet in Bilbo that's another job i've got to do

 

Mowed the front lawn and given all the plants a good drench so they're all happy now

 

Cut the grass ,or showed the lawn mower the grass as no cuttings barely in grassbox

 

EDIT - and I spent ages this afternoon faffing about with the polytunnel which has busted zips to add to its problems; in short, I think its knackered. :(
Time to see if there are any in the sales somewhere? Go on - treat yourself,
you're worth it

 

Watered and that's it. Too knackered to do anything else!! Oh, I did paint the front face of my decking, does that count?

 

T'other half and I went out on an island mystery tour for a few hours today and when I got back the garden looked like a whirlwind had gone through it. Everything had keeled over through lack of water, I couldn't believe how quickly it happened. They're all refreshed now having had a good drink.

 

A crazy, very drying East wind. It did the same here Sheal,
Jenny

 

Rain this morning and high winds have stopped me from working in the garden but I have been out and collected some seed heads, those including Lupins. With those in mind, on a whim I've just ordered some seeds for 'White Gallery' Lupins for next year.

 

Plenty of watering and 'interfering' with my pumpkins.....plenty of male flowers around but the ladies seem rather scarce....

 

Cut the lawn, and went to the garden centre and bought a Cornus and a photina red robin.