I did an hour or so in the school garden I look after, planted fritillaria, muscari, and tritillia bulbs. Got the groundsman to dig out a big clump of persicaria "Red Dragon" which was proving too invasive - I thought it might be but it was a donated plant and one doesn't like to turn them down! Winter flowering jasmine was just coming out and looking good and some cyclamens also, but swathes of verbena bon. will have to be cut down in the spring, it's gone beserk. A bit chilly, but sunshiny so quite pleasant.
Rotavated the area that I finished hand digging yesterday finally ready to put winter Onions & garlic in. I have them already growing in modules as I knew I was behind with getting some ground ready. Should have cut down the frost blackened Dahlias i suppose but that will have to wait till I am ready to lift them as well.
Allotment Boy , I known it depends where you live but my Dalias at the allotment are left in ground over winter , I just mulch them , in fact still flowering nicely at moment
I have left them in the ground before but as the new shoots emerged the slugs & snails got them all. I thought they had not survived but when I dug them up the tubers were intact but there were no shoots able to grow, so I went back to lifting them.
Allotment Boy , so it the slugs and snails are your Dalias enemy’s , Pleased to say don’t have a real problem at Allotment with them 🐌 I have a bed of Hostas in the garden and put down grit and that keeps them relatively safe
Frost had the cosmos last night, so pulled them up Put hanging baskets in the small lean to greenhouse, going to leave all the plants in them until spring.
Binned 6 chilli plants from the concervatory and vaccumed all the dried leaves and flowers that had dropped off.
Still got 14 of them left, some of them will have to go to make room for the artificial christmas tree.
Hello , managed a few hours this afternoon in garden , cut up last years small branches for fire , nicely dry O/H Picked the chilli 🌶 from g/h , grew 3 different plants in a grow bag , usually use big pots and think that would have been better , currently chilliest drying on tray in Conservatory Will Take used compost to allotment and put in compost bins
Need to clean g/h With jeyes fluid , first time in 10 years we had some white fly , must be weather ?
Once the rain stopped took a trip to the allotment did nothing really, been let down by the guy that I was hoping would rotovate it all over for me he seems to of disappeared off the face of the earth.
So I'm now contemplating buying one and do it myself did consider hiring but for the cost of that a few times, I can buy one also has the advantage that its there when I want it and not getting any younger will save on my back and all that digging me thinks.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
We continued to dig out some Dock in the field - we managed to get around 50% of the tap roots out. Later on we continued to hard prune the apple tree, collecting the cuttings to put through the shredder at a later date.
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I have a bed of Hostas in the garden and put down grit and that keeps them relatively safe
O/H Picked the chilli 🌶 from g/h , grew 3 different plants in a grow bag , usually use big pots and think that would have been better , currently chilliest drying on tray in Conservatory
Will Take used compost to allotment and put in compost bins
Need to clean g/h With jeyes fluid , first time in 10 years we had some white fly , must be weather ?
So I'm now contemplating buying one and do it myself did consider hiring but for the cost of that a few times, I can buy one also has the advantage that its there when I want it and not getting any younger will save on my back and all that digging me thinks.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog