What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK3.. 2013

Levelling strip of soil at front of cottage where I intend to sow grass seed!

Val

 

Deadheading and took a red patio rose that has struggled in its pot into the bed.
Took a dozen coleus cuttings and put them in water.

 

Staked the dahlias as they were starting to flop.

 

I emptied my compost bin today so I can fill it up again, the annuals are coming out of the beds tomorrow. So sad, another summer finished!

 

I took cuttings from my Geranium "Frank Hedley" and put them in their own little plastic GH. They will sit up in the bathroom/ maternity ward.
I also potted on a little Mimosa Pudica houseplant that I fell in love with on a day trip to Weymouth recently. A fascinating plant whose leaves close up when you touch them and reopen 10 minutes later.. It also closes when the evening light fades.

 

Geraniums? I suggest doing both. You can shove the geranium plants in a corner in the garage, or similar, and a pot (or several) stuffed with cuttings on a windowsill - and then pot them up in the spring.

 

Geraniums root too temptingly easily! im ashamed to say when i was buying one a couple of months ago i couldn't resist the urge to take a few 'cuttings' of the other Geraniums & stick them into the compost of the one i was buying what can i say, it was a moment of weakness

 

Been out picking loads of Blackberries, a great crop this year. While scrambling about in the undergrowth (why are the biggest, juiciest Blackberries always in the most awkward spot!?) I found the 1st Ladybird of this season. It isn't going to have long before Autumn sets in in earnest. I hope it finds enough to eat as I've not seen any (good for me bad for Ladybirds) greenfly at all. I wonder if if this strange pattern has been repeated down South?

 

Finished laying all the cables to new shed and greenhouse.New shed arrived today,very impressed arrive today 7-30 am only order it Sunday.

 

Roy, Either you've got a very steep garden or they've installed that shed on its side

 

I thought it was just the "wide door model"

 

Got some Hellebores out of their pots, finally, and into beds. Also settled some Heuchera in and potted up some cuttings. Took seed from Hollyhocks.

 

Between the showers, and reading the forum, I picked some french beans, laughed at the sorry state of my baby runner beans, potted up my phygelius ( folks!), a clematis tangutica, and a DA rose I bought at half price at the weekend. Also expanded my Dutch vocabulary whilst having our entrance gate motor-arms repaired.