Felt like the official opening of the gardening season for me today - sowed my sweet peas and got a tray of Consolida sown as well. All while a blizzard was doing the rounds, snow up to my eyeballs again. Still, the light levels are back to the sort of level where there's sunlight in the living room again. I've got a month or so more to go before I can get to the garden proper and start digging and fertilizing
I have a had a very productive morning. I went to my local horticultural club shop to get some supplies I was running low on. I then came back to put these items in the shed. That was supposed to be the extent of my gardening job today. I ended up spending around 3 hours weeding, tidying and turning my compost heaps. I actually thought yesterday when I finished that I was up to date. I now think I am up to date 😂😂
You will keep finding jobs that need doing @PurpleRose , we fool ourselves that the job is done, but it never is.🙄 I keep looking out and thinking still that to do 😆🤦♀️
Watered pots of bulbs in the greenhouse, the crocuses have pretty much finished so l cleared the pots out and left them round the back to die down. Still plenty of colour to come from narcissi, anemones and muscari among others. Pots of tulips under the staging are really starting to show. Will be put outside in a few weeks. Sunny but still a chill in the air. Can definitely smell the Spring !
Found a Rock while clearing a big stand of brambles and ivy. Decided to leave it where it is... it's nearly 2m long, and dips down under the soil. It'll be incorporated into the garden plan (which is currently mostly in my head); it's on the north side of a huge birch tree, so very shaded, but I feel a woodland bed coming on. But something is needed to hide the concrete block wall...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Late potting; tulips, snowdrops, muscari and in the bigger pots out in gladioli at the base, finished off with primrose and horti grit
Dug up arround the clubhouse, repurposed last weeks tree - sawed up - as edging, piled remaining wood around the clubhouse, planted Christmas tree and cherry tree. Tidied up around back store and cordoned off with bamboo sticks and fencing
Just come in from the garden as hands getting cold. I have a Hebe which I considered retiring to make way for Lavender, but I have pruned it like a tree to let the light through and now there is room to plant a Lavender either side, so pleased with that. I also cleared leaves from my pond waterfall steps and will be planting some little ferns next to it. The ferns were potted-up last year from some little sproutings under my garden steps - free plants!
Back aching a bit and some scratches on my hands - so Spring is here!
Went across London to a plot that's to be developed and dug up 2 roses and a small shrubs (and drove home with rose branches digging into me!). Also dug up a load of bulbs that were beneath the roses with as much soil as possible.
Brought them home, planted the roses and the shrubs and took some cuttings . Dropped the bulbs into pots.
One of those exhausting-in-a-satisfying-way days!!
Busy day here. Trimmed all the ferns except the tree ferns which will wait another month, same to the hellebores and grasses. Tidied through my tropical area and a couple of other beds. Debated if I should remove our salvia hotlips as they are so straggly, am always jealous when I them on the forum. Anyway gave them a hard prune along with the buddleia. Mowed up the whole lot and added it to the compost bin along with duck bedding from next door.
Peas, beetroot and spring onions are all emerging nicely, I've added poly carbonate over raised bed ready for them to go in a a couple of weeks.
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O/H planted pots at home with polyanthus
Bought a new fire bin from Aldi , always good value
Pots of tulips under the staging are really starting to show. Will be put outside in a few weeks.
Sunny but still a chill in the air. Can definitely smell the Spring !
Late potting; tulips, snowdrops, muscari and in the bigger pots out in gladioli at the base, finished off with primrose and horti grit
Dug up arround the clubhouse, repurposed last weeks tree - sawed up - as edging, piled remaining wood around the clubhouse, planted Christmas tree and cherry tree.
Tidied up around back store and cordoned off with bamboo sticks and fencing
Tidied around firebowl and made good
Trimmed back roses
Tidied up other pots, removed old cyclamen
about 5hrs hard Labour - my lower back is aching
Back aching a bit and some scratches on my hands - so Spring is here!
Brought them home, planted the roses and the shrubs and took some cuttings . Dropped the bulbs into pots.
One of those exhausting-in-a-satisfying-way days!!
Peas, beetroot and spring onions are all emerging nicely, I've added poly carbonate over raised bed ready for them to go in a a couple of weeks.