Went to garden centre this morning and bought some sprouts as ours haven’t germinated plus some trailing lobelia for hanging baskets & other bits Couple of hours at allotment this afternoon putting new covers over cabbage 🥬 and broccoli 🥦 as they had out grown current covers
Tackled the bindweed (which had grown like topsy when I wasn't looking!) in the wall raised bed. Yards of the stuff all tangled up in plants and climbers. I've spent the last 12 years doing battle with this lot to no avail - think the roots must be under the boundary wall. Stuffed some of it into plastic bags and sprayed it - again. It's odd that most of it is only in this bed, the front garden is comparatively clear ….shhh…..
Moved the canna pots into the places in the borders. Done some weeding. Trellis put up and new clematis tied in, hoping that it will climb over the woodshed. Fence post brackets screwed on and the new Wisteria has been unravelled and tied onto wires. Some of the daff and tulip leaves have died off now so they were removed. Still have a lot of plants in the greenhouse to plant out, might have enough energy when I've had a cuppa.
Went around garden dead heading the last of the tulips. Spot sprayed the weeds on the path and patio. In the greenhouse continued to tie and de-side shoot the toms. I'm growing Roma for the first time and have noticed they are slightly shorter than the others and have much thicker fleshy leaves/ stems than say gardeners delight. Have the first pea sized tom set.😁
Split a couple of drumstick primulas, got 9 plants, had just enough spaces available.
Swapped around a bog scabious and a marsh marigold at the pond side, seemed more suitable.
Mowed the lawn, including some of the bulb leaves, they wouldn't die back and the grass was getting long and sweaty.
Discovered I have pocket plum 🤔, cute name for not the worst disease I've ever seen, on the blackthorn.
Made some planting decisions, some stuff needs replacing, looking manky. I don't plant in the warm months anymore, too much looking after required, a nice project for the end of the year🙂
I'd had some compact raspberries delivered a few weeks ago and still in their small pots they were overdue a proper home. So a made a 50 litre wooden container to sit in the sunny spot down the side of my garage.
Been to the allotment in the last few days early mornings to open up the tunnel and back in the evenings to close it back up. My late summer / winter Cauliflower and Broccoli plugs arrived on Saturday so they have been potted up they can form a better root ball and will go out mid June also planted out some Echinacea purpurea and Aquilegia 'Swan Mixed' in the gardens around the seating area also general watering, hoeing and weeding.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
I constructed a very Heath Robinson-like netting cage over my raised strawberry bed in an effort to keep the pigeons and magpies off them. Then I tidied up the back of the shed (my dumping ground) where I found three sacks of old compost bags! They're off to the tip.
Cut up a pallet we where given for firewood , to big to get in car for allotment , not sure if that really counts as gardening Did pot up a geranium , got 2 hanging baskets ready for tumbling toms , put water retention gel in them will pot them up tomorrow Moved some Dalias out of g/h these where the free seeds from g/w , they have grown really well
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Couple of hours at allotment this afternoon putting new covers over cabbage 🥬 and broccoli 🥦 as they had out grown current covers
Swapped around a bog scabious and a marsh marigold at the pond side, seemed more suitable.
Mowed the lawn, including some of the bulb leaves, they wouldn't die back and the grass was getting long and sweaty.
Discovered I have pocket plum 🤔, cute name for not the worst disease I've ever seen, on the blackthorn.
Made some planting decisions, some stuff needs replacing, looking manky. I don't plant in the warm months anymore, too much looking after required, a nice project for the end of the year🙂
My late summer / winter Cauliflower and Broccoli plugs arrived on Saturday so they have been potted up they can form a better root ball and will go out mid June also planted out some Echinacea purpurea and Aquilegia 'Swan Mixed' in the gardens around the seating area also general watering, hoeing and weeding.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Did pot up a geranium , got 2 hanging baskets ready for tumbling toms , put water retention gel in them will pot them up tomorrow
Moved some Dalias out of g/h these where the free seeds from g/w , they have grown really well