Finished cutting the back lawn this morning , also trimmed bottom hedge & hawthorn tree This afternoon in between a couple of showers , planted 2 more cucumber plants in final g/h pots & repotted 3 sedums Put some French beans in pots and some more lettuce 🥬
I planted two Gauras in the front flower beds and need a home for a third. Split a big woody penstemon Garnet in two and planted both clumps in the outside verge where they'll have to either swim or sink - no room left inside the garden.
Then I soaked a rag in Jeyes Fluid and poked it down to where I think the rat is nesting under the water butt. I'm hoping the smell alone will make it go away. I tried soaking the area with the hosepipe earlier in case that works. We'll see.
Last autumn I sowed some isoplexis canariensis. I had 10 seeds, bought from a nursery in Holland as I couldn't source them in the UK, or plants. Two germinated and I tended them carefully all over winter before potting them on then gradually hardening them off. Today I planted them in the border where they are to flower. I hope! I've since bought some more seeds from Special Plants (I think that's what they are called) but no luck with germination yet.
Isoplexis sounds like something for killing headlice! I have already spent 20 minutes,I told hubby I was now leaving some plants outside overnight,he put them all back,so I've just got the out again
I'm getting so frustrated by this weather May is bringing. I work 9-5 and low and behold the best hours of each day tend to be during this time. as soon as i get home or as soon as I get an hour to pop out into the garden it belts down. its like the weather is watching me.
The worst part is the weekends this month though. I plan what I'm going to keep myself busy doing, and if I'm lucky I get confined to my 1.5m2 zip up greenhouse. Which is not the most productive area to try to do anything in.
I do plan to build a bigger greenhouse but that's delayed due to the weather too.
Even with all this frustrating wet weather, I'm still managing to get some sowing etc done, which is quite pleasing at least.
It's actually stayed dry today, so took advantage and dug out part of clump of Helianthus "Lemon Queen" that was threatening to take over, split it and potted some sections up. Potted up seedlings of pepper "Razamatazz", dahlias "Opera Mix" and trifolium "Red Feathers" and "Frosty Feathers". Moved plug plant dianthus into the coldframe and planted out pink osteospermum taken from a cutting last year. Tided up the pot store.
After my busy ,6,am caused by HUBBY putting all my hardening off plants back in the green house yesterday. Went out for wine/coffee,/cake sea front hotel friends birthday this week,hubby watered green houses,I have potted on my sweet peppers
No gardening today , just cut up some pallets I had been given for storage in wood pile for burning , however , one was not to damaged so took it up to allotment We need to redo one of the water cubes that subsiding
The runners have finally been sowed in root trainers, planted-out the sweet peas into 3 large pots, planted a row of peas and started on pulling-up the forget-me-nots as I pass, ready for young plants to go into the borders. Now out to plant the tomatoes into the greenhouse before settling down for the FA Cup Final! ⚽🦊🤞
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I moved some self-seeded alchemilla mollis, fed some pots, gave one of the daphnes a dose of epsom salts, gave my hollyhock seedlings a weak dose of copper solution and tried to identify some new plants in the border. Failed. Will have to wait and see.
Took some cuttings of some of my heuchera and buried the parent ones a little deeper in the ground.
Cheered on a dahlia that is coming up in my border - everyone sneered at it when I bought it three years ago (in the "bedding dahlia" section) and it has not only come back strongly every single year but also never succumbs to slugs and snails. When it gets a bit bigger I shall take cuttings.
Will leave it another week but will also start pulling up the forget-me-nots as I have so many plants that need to go in the ground really.
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This afternoon in between a couple of showers , planted 2 more cucumber plants in final g/h pots & repotted 3 sedums
Put some French beans in pots and some more lettuce 🥬
Then I soaked a rag in Jeyes Fluid and poked it down to where I think the rat is nesting under the water butt. I'm hoping the smell alone will make it go away. I tried soaking the area with the hosepipe earlier in case that works. We'll see.
I work 9-5 and low and behold the best hours of each day tend to be during this time. as soon as i get home or as soon as I get an hour to pop out into the garden it belts down. its like the weather is watching me.
The worst part is the weekends this month though. I plan what I'm going to keep myself busy doing, and if I'm lucky I get confined to my 1.5m2 zip up greenhouse. Which is not the most productive area to try to do anything in.
I do plan to build a bigger greenhouse but that's delayed due to the weather too.
Even with all this frustrating wet weather, I'm still managing to get some sowing etc done, which is quite pleasing at least.
Potted up seedlings of pepper "Razamatazz", dahlias "Opera Mix" and trifolium "Red Feathers" and "Frosty Feathers". Moved plug plant dianthus into the coldframe and planted out pink osteospermum taken from a cutting last year.
Tided up the pot store.
We need to redo one of the water cubes that subsiding
Took some cuttings of some of my heuchera and buried the parent ones a little deeper in the ground.
Cheered on a dahlia that is coming up in my border - everyone sneered at it when I bought it three years ago (in the "bedding dahlia" section) and it has not only come back strongly every single year but also never succumbs to slugs and snails. When it gets a bit bigger I shall take cuttings.
Will leave it another week but will also start pulling up the forget-me-nots as I have so many plants that need to go in the ground really.