Widerbeast, hope shoulder gets better Went to allotment yesterday morning , amazing the amount of stuff we brought home after a couple of weeks away , including a bucket of tomatoes 🍅 , o/h has been making tomato chutney Also brought a bucket of Quince , best crop we have ever had , it makes fabulous jam Hopefully do a bit this afternoon in garden
Pleased to gather some brown leaves today as needed them for the compost bin as a bit ‘green’ heavy just now. Once the Autumn leaf fall really kicks off, I will collect more.
I’ve potted up a lovely Myrtle shrub (a gift) and the cuttings I made from it are alive and well too. I have replaced a couple of my patio pots with Autumn flowing heathers and used one empty pot to plant some crocus bulbs.
One compost bin is ready so I have sieved (wide garden sieve) some of it but that’s work in progress.
Nearly finished the upgraded hedgehog hotel too. I think a squirrel had used the last one as a pantry for nuts but I will remain hopeful that Mrs Hog will move in and have lots of slug-hungry hoglets.
My new polyhouse is up and running - plenty of cuttings in there already.
Have made up a couple of pots after the summer flowers were past their best, I've put a couple of daffodil bulbs in the bottom of each, never tried this before so will see! There's some heather's and then I added pansies and violas.
Busy day in the garden but the most satisfying job was removing an ash sapling from a really tough spot. It had managed to germinate in a narrow space between the pond and fence, right where we have froglets and mice. Thankfully the metal stake managed to loosen the soil deep down enough for it to come out in one piece! Shame for such a lovely (potential) tree to be removed but would have caused all sorts of problems.
@david25:17 I have an ash sapling problem myself, (a tree overhangs the bottom of my garden from a wooded area at the back, I see birds enjoy it so I don't want it gone in particular ) but I do have one sapling in a very awkward spot. I will try your metal stake trick if I can find one as I've been struggling to get something in and underneath where it is (between wall and a brick area)
I will try your metal stake trick if I can find one as I've been struggling to get something in and underneath where it is (between wall and a brick area)
@Grassly Similar spot to mine then as our pond wall is brick. I found that the metal stake just managed to help loosen the soil around the roots enough for it to eventually pull out. Not ideal for the back, and the tap root was as long as what was above ground, but got the job done. Best of luck!
Hello everybody , no real gardening , have had a new roller blind electric garage door fitted , really pleased , lots of time sorting out garage , hopefully some gardening this weekend Hope everybody is well
Not so much today but over the last few days I've planted about 500 bulbs, tulips, dafs, crocuses, muscari and alliums all went into the winter/spring garden. Started the beginning of the autumn tidy up cutting back a few fennels and hollyhocks. Turned 3 bins of compost, it's breaking down brilliantly, the new neighbours keep bringing all there waste so we are really building stocks up. Sowed poppies, birdsfoot trefoil, wild carrot, corn flowers and yellow rattle. They are going to be plug plants for the meadow area. Cleared the pond of weed which has been more and more of a problem. The cannas are looking fab this year and I keep dead heading them. It's all go in general with lots less daylight to do it all in
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Went to allotment yesterday morning , amazing the amount of stuff we brought home after a couple of weeks away , including a bucket of tomatoes 🍅 , o/h has been making tomato chutney
Also brought a bucket of Quince , best crop we have ever had , it makes fabulous jam
Hopefully do a bit this afternoon in garden
There's some heather's and then I added pansies and violas.
Bon weekend!
@david25:17 I have an ash sapling problem myself, (a tree overhangs the bottom of my garden from a wooded area at the back, I see birds enjoy it so I don't want it gone in particular ) but I do have one sapling in a very awkward spot. I will try your metal stake trick if I can find one as I've been struggling to get something in and underneath where it is (between wall and a brick area)
Hope everybody is well