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

I cannot see any moss for the weeds in mine,

 

H iwill it grow back from that or are you trying to kill it

 

Time will tell Dorothy,
I haven't intended to kill it. I think it will forgive me, especially if I sprinkle some blood,fish and bone meal around it,
Jenny

 

Ah I see. I have just chopped down a shrub which I hate. I has just a few yellow flowers in spring for a few weeks and then grows like mad all summer. I'm forever cut it back to stop the shade on my grass. So I decided last week it just had to go.So I'm hoping I've killed it

 

forgot to say I cut all the lawns Saturday the garden has dried out so much bit hard to believe this is what happened last year we had that dry spell , re-potted my Sarracenia , just as well I did found 6 vine weevil , Robin enjoyed them all , from one pot now have 6 pots not bad , plus got two bargains from Ebay £2.99 each £12.00 from "Little shop of horrors" so love a bargain ! so I have a min carni collection now .

Spruce

 

Tried to mark out an Ellipse ... two sticks and a loop of string. Even found a website that enabled me to calculate the distance between the sticks and the length of the piece of string.

So much for the advanced maths calculations ... it took ages, of trial-and-error, and still wasn't right ...

 

I've done very little today...appart from stare at my tomato and Onion seedlings and shuffle plants around in the GH

 

I started marking out where i want to extend my borders, decided not to go with rounded sweeps as my garden is like a triangle with a point chopped off. So was thinking of < shapes to keep the angular look, my front border is 40" long so about 6 I think as I have a couple of trees in my lawn so cannot make them too deep.

 

An ellipse is simple as I recall (from Tech.Drawing).

Mark two lines at right angles to each other. Mark the centre radius and work out and mark the two end radii. Divide each of the two lines an equal number of times (ie; 16, 32, 64 etc), and draw right angles off of them. Where the lines meet is your arc points (this part is absolutely correct - it's 25 years since T.D.).

 

You guys make it sound complicated ... this is what I did - but getting the sticks the right distance apart, and the length of the string right, seemed to be harder than I had expected ...

 

That is my problem with my <, I measured carefully all the same size, then ended up wrong in the corner, so start at corner. I have my sticks and string all in place just need to check all the same now,,But its raining

 

Nice little video Kristen

 

Potted up the clematis and passionflower (4 in total) that I bought from Morrisons for £2 each. Had meant to do it yesterday, but ran out of time. Mr Mum was mowing the front lawn so I thought I'd have a potter

Looking at the sky, my timing is good because I think we're going to have a bit of a shower.