Reached 29.4c here today After a grey start. Ground damp after yesterday's rain. Veg plots weeded and shingle paths. Potted up some dahlias, tidied leaves from potted daffodils, watered green house stuff, planted fox glove, Heuchera,hardy geranium, some Perennial poppies I grew from seed
It was supposed to be cloudy and 14 degrees here today so I thought I’d attack one of the trunks that the previous previous owners had left in the front garden.
It turned out to be very sunny and 19 degrees but I persevered!
It took me five hours. Just me and a crowbar. But I did it!
I did some weeding - it has felt too warm to do it in the past few weeks. Managed to dig quite a lot out. Also pulled up lots of geranium macrorrhizum which I had planted in clumps last year to fill up the bare earth and keep the weeds down - has finished flowering and I'm ready to put other plants in now.
Deadheaded roses and geum. Staked the crocosmia. Fed the pots.
@Wilderbeast I also tidied up the cardoon leaves. I don't know why it never occurred to me before this year that I could just cut off the tatty leaves at the bottom. It has made such a difference - now it looks perky and tidy.
@JamesS-B that must be a welcome sight. We have a very old elder that my husband has been digging around for the past two weeks. I think after today he's ready to go at it with the pickaxe. We hope to see something like yours eventually!
Still too soggy and about to rain, so no gardening today. But I did pick the first flush of sweet peas and am enjoying the scent as I work on my laptop.
Have watered the greenhouse tomatoes/cucumbers and hand pollinated in there. Then set to dead heading all the damaged roses, and general weeding. Nice to get out after days of rain
Hello all , nice morning spent in Garden , lovely and sunny , this afternoon cloudy and a bit of drizzle , however , didn’t matter had a Bowls club committee meeting This evening bought a pot of s/m Basil which I will cut into 4 and repot did this last year and it worked really well
@Camelliad Your husband will feel such satisfaction when he finally gets it. I’ve got another two in the front and one out the back to contend with!
Today I planted two ferns, an alchemilla mollis, two trailing ivy and some grass and put a tiraella in the ground after growing it in a pot for the last year.
Did a bit this morning - cutting up a load of old sprouting broccoli leaves & stems for the compost bin, tidied away all the hundreds of plastic pots lying around the place, planted up a few bits and pieces bit of weeding, picked some sweet peas... OH has made a start on cutting back the front hedge - no nests in there. Generally getting ready for the Garden Open Day on Sunday. Nothing grand - just some of us opening our gardens, regardless of state of them for others to come and have a nose. I'll be selling a few plants too, for our local In Bloom group.
I was up and about very early (is 3am too early for gardening 🤔) anyway I have lined 3 of the compost bins with steel roofing sheets from our neighbours (their taking an old building down and the sheets are only 10 years old). It means the bins are 40 cm higher and stops the pallets soaking up moisture, I'm hoping it will see even better results.
Mowed the grass, did some weeding, tied in the clematis, cleared sagging cardoon leaves and did some dead heading. Then sat with an ice-cream and admired the garden, sometimes I forget to do that
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Deadheaded roses and geum. Staked the crocosmia. Fed the pots.
@Wilderbeast I also tidied up the cardoon leaves. I don't know why it never occurred to me before this year that I could just cut off the tatty leaves at the bottom. It has made such a difference - now it looks perky and tidy.
@JamesS-B that must be a welcome sight. We have a very old elder that my husband has been digging around for the past two weeks. I think after today he's ready to go at it with the pickaxe. We hope to see something like yours eventually!
Then set to dead heading all the damaged roses, and general weeding.
Nice to get out after days of rain
This evening bought a pot of s/m Basil which I will cut into 4 and repot did this last year and it worked really well
Mowed the grass, did some weeding, tied in the clematis, cleared sagging cardoon leaves and did some dead heading. Then sat with an ice-cream and admired the garden, sometimes I forget to do that