Yes, of course it does GWRS - we all need to see what is around and in season, I wish I lived next door to a G.C.
We have done lots today - tidying up all my potted plants/cuttings etc. Parred down the amount of oak saplings that I have and chucked a few Periwinkles that I know I will never use.
We also removed a Michaelmas Daisy that had keeled over - the flowers had finished and I have two other M.D. Three was one too many.
Got rid of a Spotted Laurel and discovered a Fuchsia magellanica Alba (possibly) which I have divided, tidied up and replanted as new fresh plants. Widened the front borders a little so my wife can plant some bulbs.
Cleared the second long boarder and had a delivery of four tons of horse manure some of that has gone onto mulch the two long boarders so they are just about put to bed just the winter shrubs hellebore's, Colchicum's, and cyclamen in them now until the spring bulbs.
Tomorrow I think I will hit the veg garden.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Potted up the last of the new tulip bulbs - a lovely white lily shaped one in a bright blue pot. Cut down the greenhouse tomato plant and hoiked the plant pot out with difficulty. Later I picked the last of the runner beans and OH sowed green manure seeds in his veg beds. Just got to plant small misc. bulbs in the school garden I look after. The bench I refurbished went down to it last week - which means I now have somewhere to sit for a breather!
Took out some miniature conifers that had seen better days, chopped them up for the green waste. OH constructed cold frames, one close to the back door, one further away but in a sunnier location for the "take their chances stuff". A bit more sorting out to do, but hope to get everything in them before the colder weather arrives this weekend
Just in from the garden been out there all day got the veg garden up together and manured where needed also sown some green manure on other areas, cleaned out and washed all the glass inside and out of the greenhouses.
Now it's time for a hot soak in the bath with a glass of red wine, then for dinner beef stew that's been cooking nice and slow in the oven all day. "Perfic"
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Both of us full ( over 5 hrs ) day at allotment lots done , main jobs strawberry 🍓 bed sorted out and a mountain of pruning burnt Glas of sherry before dinner
Don't think I've been on this thread since August! Don't like gardening in hot weather and we've been to Norfolk and Italy.
This month I've planted some violas in pots to replace summer bedding, done a bit of clearing in the veg garden (lots more to do) and today I have cut down the perennials in half the long border, took nearly 2 hours. The cutting is quick it's the raking off weeding and clearing up that take more time. Was pleased to see there weren't many weeds. Shall cover it all in very well rotted manure from the old summer shelter heap.
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Tomorrow I think I will hit the veg garden.
Later I picked the last of the runner beans and OH sowed green manure seeds in his veg beds. Just got to plant small misc. bulbs in the school garden I look after. The bench I refurbished went down to it last week - which means I now have somewhere to sit for a breather!
Now it's time for a hot soak in the bath with a glass of red wine, then for dinner beef stew that's been cooking nice and slow in the oven all day. "Perfic"
and a mountain of pruning burnt
Glas of sherry before dinner
Don't think I've been on this thread since August! Don't like gardening in hot weather and we've been to Norfolk and Italy.
This month I've planted some violas in pots to replace summer bedding, done a bit of clearing in the veg garden (lots more to do) and today I have cut down the perennials in half the long border, took nearly 2 hours. The cutting is quick it's the raking off weeding and clearing up that take more time. Was pleased to see there weren't many weeds. Shall cover it all in very well rotted manure from the old summer shelter heap.