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Anyone done any gardening today? Part 5

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  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @Songbird-1 I take all my cuttings beginning of September, sections of non flowering side shoots. I do it then along with all my cuttings as I have time and space to deal with them. @GWRS we have some hotlips which happily stay out all winter while our other salvias don't. The hotlips are going though as they refuse to make a decent plant, they just go all straggly.

    Potted on 12 verbena borensis, 50 aquilegia miss m i huish, 6 Dianthus and another 24 plants of name I forget. Pricked out a 15 aquilegia Scott Elliot.
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @Songbird-1 all the plants are destined for the borders. I'm beginning to swap aquilegias this year as they are meant to be short lived, hence why I have so many.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    The cultivated Aquilegia are short lived @Wilderbeast because they cross pollinate and then revert back . Aquilegia in general come up every year.😀
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @purplerallim yes we find all the seedlings come up with a rather insipid pinkish flower. The miss m i huish are a deep chocolate flower and a real contrast to all our bright coloured flowers. 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Yes that's the wild colour @Wilderbeast , but I have purple and white colours too in my self seeded, so the odd pink gets tolerated, but not allowed to seed.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Cut the grass front and back, even did the edges properly which I admit I don't always do.  This is only the second cut so far this year, I need to feed & mosskill but remarkably it's a bit too dry at the moment, this Arctic wind is just taking all the surface moisture away.
    AB Still learning

  • 4 hours in the greenhouse.
    Planted out butternut squash, peas, basil, tomatoes and potatoes. 
    Sowed cabbages and mini tomatoes and repotted the citrus trees.

    Then had to out them all back in because it started to snow 🤦‍♀️😂
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    edited April 2021
    Spent 1.5hrs putting the Christmas tree through the wood chipper.  90 frustrating mins of my life I won’t see again.

    At least Ive mulched the blueberry bushes. 

    Got out the electric scarifier,  not sure it matters how cold it is when I do the lawn, but I want to get it out of the way soon.
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    Pruned back an Artemis which was showing some new growth. Messed about with the next compost bay (the redesign is going slowly due to a large house project), the current hot bin is bubbling along at 65°c. Weeded out some MORE dandelions. Collected up plant pots which had been blown all over the garden.

    Managed to survive 2 blizzards as well ❄️❄️❄️❄️
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    This morning Onion sets into cells in the glasshouse, about 150, and sowed runner beans in pots in the glasshouse, normally grow about two dozen, potatoes tubers planted last week outside in their prepared plot,
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