Several hours of moving existing plants and putting in new ones... like playing mental 3D chess. I have a lot of spare plants by the look of it, although I'm not done yet!
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Yesterday I collected my leaves, I mow them up with a good dose of grass and they go into the compost. I have a pallet bin full but it is steaming hot this morning and will collapse down in a couple of days. Am going to be short of compost room soon despite having 7 pallet bins, I have five bins of finished stuff and 2 hot bins on the go. I am going to create a large no dig vegetable bed to put a lot of it into just need time to get it done. Planted some daylillies and crocosmias that were freebies, they've gone into my tropical bed to add some hot vibrant colour.
I had another go at my compost / leafmould bins, and did some redcurrant pruning to make my beserker redcurrant bush a more reasonable size for its space by cutting new wood back to where it should be early next year. I can now see the base of the apple tree. It will need reshaping, but I may need some advice on that.
And the lawn vac / blower arrives today, so I'll be playing with my leaves. 2 dumpy bags waiting, but I think I will need a couple more. I may stage a raid on the lane for extra leaves as the putative plan is to do some reasonably fundamental garden stuff in the next year or two.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
The last pots of bulbs planted, pots of dead annuals dealt with, sweet peas taken up and H. Annabelle (a gift from @WonkyWomble 🙏) had been planted by the Under Gardener who had also excelled in general tidying and sweeping duties. We have also popped the plastic tunnel cloche over the Swiss Chard and put a plastic raincoat over my new wooden garden seat.
The rest of the tidying will wait until after the ash tree has been pollarded in about 3 weeks’ time.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Finished planting the 250 bulbs around the garden. Then helped hubby clean out the guttering of leaves ( four buckets full) before next downpour. ( yesterday was so bad we had rivers pouring out of the guttering) Too windy to brush up the ash leaves today, will leave that for now. Good job we decided to put the pots of salvia into the greenhouse, they would have been broken by the wind or rain.
Cleared the drive and pathways of leaves, took a few more rose cuttings and tidied up the manky bush that I'm removing, by sawing down to ground level. I've got a nice pile of logs in the shed now so somebody will be getting those for winter usage.
We've also spent the morning clearing leaves from beds, lawns and paths, an ongoing daily chore (weather permitting) for us this time of year. The new sq. metre leaf bin is proving very useful but is very nearly full already, might have to compress it down or empty out the old one.
Haven’t done much this weekend as showers on and off (mainly on) but collected windfall apples - most kicked away for any foraging wildlife, but some to keep and some given to neighbour.
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And the lawn vac / blower arrives today, so I'll be playing with my leaves. 2 dumpy bags waiting, but I think I will need a couple more. I may stage a raid on the lane for extra leaves as the putative plan is to do some reasonably fundamental garden stuff in the next year or two.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Then helped hubby clean out the guttering of leaves ( four buckets full) before next downpour. ( yesterday was so bad we had rivers pouring out of the guttering)
Too windy to brush up the ash leaves today, will leave that for now.
Good job we decided to put the pots of salvia into the greenhouse, they would have been broken by the wind or rain.