Up early after finding it bright and dry, turned a compost bin (huge plumes of steam rising up out of it), dead headed a rose, weeded a bed of marestail and fennel seedlings, added more gravel to the pond beach. It's raining now so I think gardening is done for the day
@Mary370, if you can bear to and want to try and keep it if you can, l wouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get it out. Give it a couple of weeks and maybe one feed with tomato or seaweed feed or whatever you have to hand and wait. I'd be interested to see what happens
Replanted strawberries in a looser potting mix as they have been dying one by one. No hope of having anything this year but I think that’s normal for barefoot strawberries. I would just like them to survive this year 🙏🏽
It could be the planters which are not super deep but I’ve seen Strawberries grown in gutters 🧐
A bit late but planted my gladioli into the long grass beds:
Used the turf to repair some patches, but as you can see the thatch is about an inch thick despite my spring/autumn dethatching so maybe doing a new lawn next year:
Well despite the water falling from the sky I've done quite a bit. Planted the last verbena boriensis, hollyhocks, some oceana blue salvias and cannas. Picked seed pods of the candelabra primulas and sowed the seeds. Tidied up after yesterday's wind lost a couple of foxgloves and the cardoon leaves were very tatty. The delivery of cosmos from Thompson and Morgan are meant to be garden ready but think I might pot them on, think theyd get lost in our beds which are on average 3ft high in foliage. Just some Ricinus plants to go out if it's drier later
We’ve decided Sunday is a day of rest , so read papers , nice long walk , currently listening to SundayNight is music night on radio 2 Next 2 days , allotment /garden going to be busy
I took a deep breath and cut down my clematis alpine @Helsingborg. It's a bit late I know, but it was too wet after it flowered, then it was too hot! The flowers were all on the top of the trellis and archway but the lower half was just bare, so I'm hoping a hard prune will jolt it into new shoots lower down. Put the hosepipe on it for a bit, followed by fertiliser and some of our own compost. Fingers now crossed I haven't killed it.
I did something similar today @Lizzie27, cut down a Markham's Pink. While my back was turned, all the growth shot to the top leaving the bottom just a mass of bare shoots so l bit the bullet. Gave it a seaweed feed. Potted up artemesias into terracotta pots for a little display, top dressed with grit. Moved pots of dahlias and salvias into flower beds. Did some deadheading and pulled out a couple more foxgloves. Dug the ground over, chucked in some Gromore and planted Heleniums. Watered recently planted roses. Potted on eight Gaura "The Bride" (grown from seed). As it was quite cloudy, OH cut some of the box hedge and also watered the newly planted cosmos in front garden.
I repotted a tomato plant a friend had given me and stuck it in the greenhouse to sink or swim! it's much more advanced than my little efforts. Watered the carrot seedlings, lettuce and rocket. I then tried my hand at siliconing mock seashells onto the ends of 6 metal spirals (green cane toppers are too big) to see if these work instead. Watered the delphiniums, rudbeckia and giant scabious that were struggling - we've still not had any appreciable rain.
Went for short drive with OH, came back with 3 bags of horse poop, so turned compost and added poopy layers. Wasn't expecting to do any gardening today, but managed to be out there from late afternoon until early evening working the compost heap. Just right with cool overcast weather to get the job done.
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I'd be interested to see what happens
Used the turf to repair some patches, but as you can see the thatch is about an inch thick despite my spring/autumn dethatching so maybe doing a new lawn next year:
Next 2 days , allotment /garden going to be busy
Potted up artemesias into terracotta pots for a little display, top dressed with grit. Moved pots of dahlias and salvias into flower beds. Did some deadheading and pulled out a couple more foxgloves. Dug the ground over, chucked in some Gromore and planted Heleniums. Watered recently planted roses.
Potted on eight Gaura "The Bride" (grown from seed).
As it was quite cloudy, OH cut some of the box hedge and also watered the newly planted cosmos in front garden.