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

Been lovely here today!

 

After the rain cleared up I had a go at lifting some leeks for me tea.
Not much else can be done till the ground dries out a bit.

 

Had the front garden started and this is what it looked like this morning after everything was cleared. Too dark to take pics of what it looks like today, so I'll post more up the morra

 

I've been doing a bit of tidying around the garden and potting up some bedding in containers that I've been selling, been picking up some lovely cut flower buckets cheap, putting some drainage holes in the bottom and popping in some bedding plants and they've been selling quite well , also made use of an old strawberry pot and planted that up, that's just sold too

 

Decided that my runner beans better have a tidy up. So I removed all the canes, removed beans that will make seeds for next year. Let the green stuff drop down, still attached to soil. I am going to see about digging a trench for the site where I shall put my beans next year, so that I can put food peeling, shredded paper etc, so that the trench will hopefully feed the greedy so and so's. Any other ideas what I should about green beans would be gratefully received.

 

Popped to my local supplier of horse poop today; a lovely old lady in the country, she just bags it up and leaves them by her front gate with an honesty box (not many places you can do that these days, sadly), I got 8 large bags of quite fresh stuff and spread 5 of them on the veg patch; the worms and the winter weather can do the rest before I dig it over early next year.. The other 3 bags will be left to rot down in a corner for when I need them for planting

 

Yesterday, I pulled my cannas etc out of the greenhouse to inspect them for mould, dead leaves/stems, bugs etc.....

No mould so that was good, removed a few dead leaves and cleared fallen debris up from the floor, also found a few aphids (not too many), these were either dead or dormant as they just fell off the leaves when I touched them, either way they all got squished

Whilst I had the pots out I wrapped them in bubblewrap, also tipped the red ensete banana out of its bot and knocked most of the compost off its roots as it was still quite damp and I don't want any rot setting from below. I then wrapped its root ball in hessian and popped it back in the greenhouse. I know I'm not currently following any recomended procedures but just going with what feels right to me at the moment

On the subject of the red ensete banana I saw of Facebook a post by Will Giles, saying that he'd just dug his up and moved them into the greenhouse, I asked him what method he uses and he said he just leaves them as they are and keeps the temperature at a minimum of 7 degrees celcius and doesn't water them at all now until around March time...

 

Hi Armandii, I think with my ensete if the compost had shown better signs of drying I would have left it in situ but I was worried that if it sat in damp cold compost for too long it may have caused rot below the root ball. It still has some compost around its roots, there are just some of the longer thicker roots exposed, the whole root ball now wrapped in hessian and popped in the pot to keep it upright..

 

Done the leaf collecting thing again

 

Remind me Loli - you getting any good at that yet?

 

I think it's becoming an obsession Kristen