Hubby mowed lawn, while I blanched the french and green beans picked today for the freezer. Thats to go with this weeks veg soup , which makes 8 of them already in the freezer. Picked the last of the spring onions, and enough toms and cucumbers to give some to each neighbour, four of them, with still three cues and a bowl of toms left for us.
Never quite certain that what I do is actually classed as gardening, but I was outside cutting 'stuff' back, pulling stuff up and generally just doing stuff.
@steveTu , sounds like gardening that I do as well , so it must count Toms in g/h starting to ripen and cucumbers ready to pick , have grown some round yellow one this year to try Have been at allotment this morning , might have an hour in garden this afternoon Its sunny 😎 but very windy
Just cut the grass,and edges first,can't kneel today,my right knee is really painful,lucky I have strong glutes and thighs,had to squat to do the edges. Got a battery thingy. Fed and watered peppers in the green house,one is going yellow, yeah!!
Pulled out the rest of the foxgloves and sprinkled the seed around.
Planted some hydrangeas - wrong time really but they were cuttings and it was either repot them or put them in the ground. I couldn't be bothered to repot them...
Planted a calycanthus, some rooted heuchera cuttings and some campanula - trying to clear the grow house to make way for new seedlings and cuttings.
Dug yet another dahlia out of the ground and potted it up. It looks an utter state. I don't learn. Next year I will keep all my dahlias in pots for the summer. Easier for me to keep them away from the slugs.
Weeded one of the borders, deadheaded the dahlias and roses, staked one of the eucomis flowers.
Gave the remaining stipa tenuissima a haircut. If it's possible for plants to look embarrassed at sporting the botanical equivalent of a bowl cut then they now do.
Tomorrow the big task is emptying out one of my compost bins which I have filled with all the wrong stuff (roots, which are now growing, all too wet). Will have to write it off I think and start again.
Spent hours pottering about today: swapped and moved some pots, made some cuttings, pruned out some ivy taking over the front garden stone wall, pulled out some Alchemilla, topped-up co post bins, potted-on some Myrtle, tidied-up potted Pelargoniums, cut back some fading veg leaves… and a few other bits.
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Thats to go with this weeks veg soup , which makes 8 of them already in the freezer.
Picked the last of the spring onions, and enough toms and cucumbers to give some to each neighbour, four of them, with still three cues and a bowl of toms left for us.
Toms in g/h starting to ripen and cucumbers ready to pick , have grown some round yellow one this year to try
Have been at allotment this morning , might have an hour in garden this afternoon
Its sunny 😎 but very windy
In fact just watered out side pots and this has reminded me to water indoor ones
Planted some hydrangeas - wrong time really but they were cuttings and it was either repot them or put them in the ground. I couldn't be bothered to repot them...
Planted a calycanthus, some rooted heuchera cuttings and some campanula - trying to clear the grow house to make way for new seedlings and cuttings.
Dug yet another dahlia out of the ground and potted it up. It looks an utter state. I don't learn. Next year I will keep all my dahlias in pots for the summer. Easier for me to keep them away from the slugs.
Weeded one of the borders, deadheaded the dahlias and roses, staked one of the eucomis flowers.
Gave the remaining stipa tenuissima a haircut. If it's possible for plants to look embarrassed at sporting the botanical equivalent of a bowl cut then they now do.
Tomorrow the big task is emptying out one of my compost bins which I have filled with all the wrong stuff (roots, which are now growing, all too wet). Will have to write it off I think and start again.