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

At 9am ( before breakfast) , Mr Namaste ( bless'im..) and I trotted off down to my "gifted "bed in the High Street . We cleared away half of the fallen leaves to expose soil and planted 24 polyanthus plants. In the Spring, it should look pretty good - planted tulips, daffs and wallflowers already.
Dressed the bed with Blood, Fish and Bone and lightly forked it in.
Jenny

 

Wow Shiney! That's a mighty fine pile of runner bean plants you've got there.

How many times did they get tangled round your feet and trip you up on the way?

Or perhaps you're not as clumsy as me.

 

Lovely mild day, perfectly still. Got all the remainder of the winterising of the garden done - ready for the first cold snap of winter on Tue/Wed.

Took some cuttings of Salvia involucrata bethellii off the material chopped back when I lifted them. Dunno if they will take? I don't think I've taken Salvia cuttings this late in the year before.

 

Some Monkey Puzzle seedlings

 

They already have that spikey appearance of the parent plant Kristen. It's a way off yet but have you got plans on where they will be planted.

 

Nope! Just fancy one ... but I think they take ages being children, before getting on with it rather faster as teenagers - is that right?

 

Kristen I've just had a look around on the web. Apparently the first five years they are slow in growth, after that they grow 18 inches to two feet a year and can live for over a thousand years.

 

Leaf gatherings, pruning, triming, covering outdoor furniture. More another day.

 

Not much actual gardening done yesterday. But a lot of productive pottering....

Chairs were moved around the garden, so we now have a pair at the very top, underneath an apple tree, so we can look right across the valley.
Firewood was brought in, and some moved nearer to the house.
Mousing Weimaraner was told to get off the top of the rather unstable wood pile.
The outside table was un-extended, chairs tucked under, and a cover put over the top (still to be tied down). I've waited for weeks to do this, as wanted the table to be dry before I covered it!
The regular poop-scoop patrol over the garden was done, which I also use as a way of checking all the plants / beds / trees.
First fat-balls of the season were hung out in three locations, and were soon being appreciated!
Wine was taken down to the cellar (outside access), dodging frogs, toads and newts.
Mousing Weimaraner morphed into amphibian- hunting Weimaraner, and was escorted out of cellar.

Then, we all retreated inside to thaw out!

 

So soon?

I'll look into pricking out immediately to avoid root disturbance. Ta.

 

On the subject of Winter Protection, given we are about to experience a cold snap, look what I've been doing in the front garden today to my Cordyline Australis (this fleece is almost 1cm thick and breathable) got it from Molloys on the Wirral for just £8.00. I packed the bottom with dead leaves, gonna be toast this winter!

 

Nothing today, it's awful out there! I've got some plants that need tidying, clematis etc, but they're still in full leaf, and my climbing rose has suddenly decided it's going to put out a couple of flowers as well. Am I best leaving cutting these back til spring now, with the almost-daily frosts?