I potted on some rooted rose cuttings and took one down the road to run up one of their trees. They were hardwood cuttings taken last March. I thought it was a bit late as they had already started into leaf, but 14 out of 16 rooted. Now I just have to find homes for the others.
Ferdinand 2000 , just being nosey but what your winter project ?
Various, but I like this material - simple, durable, no concrete and easy to work with.
- Renovating the outside of 1ft high raised beds that were done with 150x50 rough cut timber back in 2013 and need a sharpen-up.
- Cladding for a compost bin or two.
- Support higher than the 5ft front wall (need 2m - amazing how little makes a difference. Make it 5'6" to annoy women, as most men can see over that at the top of a step.) so that my pyracantha will pile up and give me more privacy from the lane that cannot be seen over easily. The background here is that my house front faces south, so I want to turn it into more of a courtyard garden for south facing sitting etc. I'm fortunate that it is enclosed by a wall but more needed.
- And support for a couple of other plant runs to be a garden divider. This is the sort of structure, but this is for my blackberry. Awful pic through the window but baby it's cold outside.
F
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
Spent the last 2 days at our rural property doing gardening things. Day 1: Put together 2 kit raised veg garden beds that are 6'x3'. Laid wire 1/2" mesh on the bottoms to hopefully keep the gophers out, as we've given up on trapping them or driving them away with vibrating gadgets all around the yard. Day 2: added the layers needed for what we call a no-till 'lasagna garden' here in the U.S.: cardboard on bottom, then twigs, then stripped newspaper bits, then leaves, then compost/manure, then composting kitchen veg scraps, than grass clippings and hay, then I repeated most of the layers a second time, topping off with more compost/manure. All layers were thoroughly wet down as I went along. By the time I was done, 3pm (having started at 9am) I was LITERALLY done. LOL So we packed up and drove back into the city exhausted. I think I died when my head hit the pillow last night. It should settle down enough by Spring I will have the space at the top to add the final topping of garden soil and compost for direct planting of my seedlings.
Cleared the tomato plants, and rescued about two dozen baby foxgloves that were growing in the tom pots. Two punnets of toms ready to eat, loads not quite ripe and loads still green. We'll be eating them for a while 🙂.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@JoeX your compost looks too dry to be doing much, tip it all out out mix it up and get it really wet then stick back in the bins. Leaves need lots of moisture to break down.
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- Renovating the outside of 1ft high raised beds that were done with 150x50 rough cut timber back in 2013 and need a sharpen-up.
- Cladding for a compost bin or two.
- Support higher than the 5ft front wall (need 2m - amazing how little makes a difference. Make it 5'6" to annoy women, as most men can see over that at the top of a step.) so that my pyracantha will pile up and give me more privacy from the lane that cannot be seen over easily. The background here is that my house front faces south, so I want to turn it into more of a courtyard garden for south facing sitting etc. I'm fortunate that it is enclosed by a wall but more needed.
- And support for a couple of other plant runs to be a garden divider. This is the sort of structure, but this is for my blackberry. Awful pic through the window but baby it's cold outside.
F
Stuck empty milk bottles into the smelly waters and filled 4 two pinters with the smelly liquid.
Garlic.
Sowed the rest to make 95 in for next Summer.
Elephant garlic.
Planted 12 in the hedge bed to brighten it up for next year
New Rasperberry Canes
Heaped up the soil to protect them.
Checked out leaf pile and compost started last year - no dice, will have to double up this years leaves
First scarification run over the grass - still damp so not much pulled out
Put the door frame on the clubhouse, removed the door frame, put it back on again properly, mounted the doors
Took some pics of Floral Court, Covent Garden: