I have 3 delphiniums bought from The Secret Gardening Club that went in last autumn and are now making good growth. Luckily we don't suffer too badly from slugs on our sandy soil but we do get snails though not too bad. Having a little pond helps as the frogs eat them. I also have 2 big bags of eggshells which I intend to crush up and sprinkle around them (and the emerging hostas in pots) as soon as we get a whiff of rain. I'm lucky in that a local cafe saves them for me when I need them.
Frogs are good @didyw I have had one in my greenhouse for over two years, it kept it slug free, this year moved the overwintered pots to clean greenhouse, and he's gone. As our neighbours don't have ponds it will have a way to go to find one.🙂
Been out and planted six herbaceous perennials and a shrub. Next door neighbour agreed to take the ton of gravel off my hands that I didn’t want in my border (new house) so I moved the gravel to her garden and weeded her border before laying the gravel.
Got rained on; hailed on and then caught the sun on my face.
I went and bought some potting mix and potted up some chives (Allium schoenoprasum) and jalapeno hot peppers (Capsicum annuum). Later today I plan to pot up some seeds of blue borage (Borago oficinalis), two varieties of Coleus (Plectranthusscutellarioides and white Madagascar Periwinkle Catharanthus (the one with the pink dot in the center).
Cut the grass, planted out some hardy perennials. Weeded my big pots, bamboo, rhododendrons. Does "indoor" gardening count, took my orchids outside,shower of rain and a feed
Also planted up 72 T&M tiddlers which arrived today. I had anticipated having to discard half of them but they were all strong and healthy! So they all needed potting up. Then I potted on the 60 lavender seedlings that I had received a few months ago and couldn't be bothered to pot on individually (they were so tiny) so was incredibly lazy and shoved them all in a giant pot. Won't do that again. It took me almost an hour to tease all the tiny roots apart. I knew it would. I was just being lazy.
Moved some shasta daisies and planted my bare root agapanthus out into the border. We'll see when they flower.
Realised that I need more compost for all the various pots. That'll be a trip for tomorrow morning I think.
Did a bindweed scan. It's about that time for their grand entrance...
Dug up and moved a few wallflowers to make room for a herbaceous peony. Also had to dig up a clump of Helianthus "Capenoch Star" to make room for a second one. Divided the Helianthus and potted up about 5 sections in all. Got very warm in the sunshine, but as soon as it clouded over the temperature dropped noticeably.
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Second one tomorrow when I have dug all of the Ivy roots out of the prospective area.
Done a bit more tidying up in g/h and a weeded a round bed
Still an icy wind
Moved some shasta daisies and planted my bare root agapanthus out into the border. We'll see when they flower.
Realised that I need more compost for all the various pots. That'll be a trip for tomorrow morning I think.
Did a bindweed scan. It's about that time for their grand entrance...
Got very warm in the sunshine, but as soon as it clouded over the temperature dropped noticeably.