Not today as had a mild migraine for most of it, but back to normal now ..
Yesterday though we had a dry afternoon at last so got to start work on the top level of the tiered veg garden. One side is built, just paths to do and the same design of beds on the other side. I’ve excavated inside the beds (bit more to do) so I will have a good depth of decent soil, and will also line with plastic I think to help with water retention as the rubble does cause it to drain very freely! I need to dig out the rest of my new border so I can line the bottom of the beds with the turf before I fill them too! So stretched for time over the next fortnight I fear I will miss the planting window for winter stuff like kale and purple sprouting broccoli, but hey ho.. next year! 😀
I wanted to finish off my green bin area so mixed up some mortar and put some new stones along the edge. Tipped the remaining mortar into the gap to keep the side decking boards in place and covered it in plastic while it sets. Had to use Hort.sand as all I'd got left so hope it's okay. Does anybody know how long an opened bag of cement keeps for if it's then well wrapped up? In the afternoon I walked to Mitzi's Garden with some spare plants I had, did some weeding, chatted to the parents, dug up some allium bulbs by mistake so gave those away, then walked home again. Fairly knackered now.
Can't advise re the cement @Lizzie27 , hopefully someone will know the answer ! Edited to add l could have sworn blind that GWRS's post wasn't there earlier 🤔 Potted up a couple of hostas that l'd propagated from a plant of MIL's, also some left over begonias from the bedding and put them in the greenhouse. Tided up pots of violas and shifted them round the garden, replaced them in window box with "Triobelles" type of petunias. Hydrangea "Angel Dark Red" that was in a large pot had given up the ghost, l feared it might be vine weevil, but no trace of any grubs. The compost was extremely dry in the centre, (the original stuff it came in), even though the rest was quite moist. Luckily l have a surviving cutting from it. Replaced it with a dahlia called "Wishes and Dreams". OH took the coldframe down so l shifted pots of dahlias, salvias and various cuttings into the space that was left. Dug out the comfrey, planted the kniphofia, also dahlias, lavenders and kniphofia . Still have a pile of pots to wash, but it started raining (again 🙄) so that's for another day.
Managed to get quite a bit done before the rain started. Pruned the lilac, weeded the borders, deadheaded and edged the lawns. I also cut back the snow in summer and the geraniums.
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Particularly Pleased with this scented rose 🌹 growing through Holly tree
Yesterday though we had a dry afternoon at last so got to start work on the top level of the tiered veg garden. One side is built, just paths to do and the same design of beds on the other side. I’ve excavated inside the beds (bit more to do) so I will have a good depth of decent soil, and will also line with plastic I think to help with water retention as the rubble does cause it to drain very freely! I need to dig out the rest of my new border so I can line the bottom of the beds with the turf before I fill them too! So stretched for time over the next fortnight
Edited to add l could have sworn blind that GWRS's post wasn't there earlier 🤔
Potted up a couple of hostas that l'd propagated from a plant of MIL's, also some left over begonias from the bedding and put them in the greenhouse. Tided up pots of violas and shifted them round the garden, replaced them in window box with "Triobelles" type of petunias. Hydrangea "Angel Dark Red" that was in a large pot had given up the ghost, l feared it might be vine weevil, but no trace of any grubs. The compost was extremely dry in the centre, (the original stuff it came in), even though the rest was quite moist. Luckily l have a surviving cutting from it. Replaced it with a dahlia called "Wishes and Dreams".
OH took the coldframe down so l shifted pots of dahlias, salvias and various cuttings into the space that was left.
Dug out the comfrey, planted the kniphofia, also dahlias, lavenders and kniphofia .
Still have a pile of pots to wash, but it started raining (again 🙄) so that's for another day.