@GWRS that been my thoughts before but I've not had the time to do what I've wanted and then just the constant COVID pressure got me all gloomy.
I've got back to getting out in the morning before work, raked a raised bed today and laid out double glazed units to warm the bed ready for early veg sowing.
I've had to erect a plastic mesh 'roof' over some very tiny blue squills that are just emerging under a magnolia tree. The blasted wood pigeons were trampling all over them gobbling up seeds under the bird feeder. They are somewhat perplexed right now!
Then I started weeding on another front garden bed but after an hour, got rained off. It's continued with showers so no more gardening today.
Sat in the greenhouse and planted up strawb runners, sowed cinnamon basil (would have done more, but ran out of compost and it was too wet to lug more up from the shed) and checked all my strawb cuttings from last year. Also did a stocktake of seeds....I have rather a lot.
Stormy morning (and rain at last this weekend!) so one for the greenhouse. Sowed some seeds - thunbergia, sedum and the rudbeckia that came with GW magazine. Also potted-on a cistus that had blown over and broken its pot (just as well, it was pretty pot-bound).
Spent much of yesterday clearing then manure-mulching a perennial bed.
Today, only a bit of very light weeding of the veg beds. There's hairy bittercress everywhere around us and it's a constant battle to keep it even vaguely under control.
Yesterday, though, I potted up three fruit trees (a Conference pear, a Rosette apple, and a Summer Sun cherry) into their "final" huge containers, plus a ceanothus and a hamamelis. Ooh, and a rose that I'd completely abandoned in its garden centre pot has been given a roomier abode and a decent prune: it is now looking much happier and hopefully won't struggle quite as much this year! Also managed to find a home for an additional variety of gooseberry that I definitely shouldn't have bought but couldn't resist.
Cloudy but very mild. Finished pruning the roses, moved a couple of hebes and pruned the honeysuckle. Moved pots of narcissus from behind the greenhouse and set them around the garden.
Like @WillowBark l am finding hairy bittercress everywhere. It's supposed to be mild again tomorrow so l think weeding is on the agenda.
Pulled up brambles, trimmed back some shrubs and shredded some laurel, buddleia and pyracantha prunings. Very achey now, don’t think I’ll be able to move much tomorrow!
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I've got back to getting out in the morning before work, raked a raised bed today and laid out double glazed units to warm the bed ready for early veg sowing.
Then I started weeding on another front garden bed but after an hour, got rained off. It's continued with showers so no more gardening today.
At home just topped up bird feeders
Very cold wind
Also did a stocktake of seeds....I have rather a lot.
Spent much of yesterday clearing then manure-mulching a perennial bed.
Yesterday, though, I potted up three fruit trees (a Conference pear, a Rosette apple, and a Summer Sun cherry) into their "final" huge containers, plus a ceanothus and a hamamelis. Ooh, and a rose that I'd completely abandoned in its garden centre pot has been given a roomier abode and a decent prune: it is now looking much happier and hopefully won't struggle quite as much this year! Also managed to find a home for an additional variety of gooseberry that I definitely shouldn't have bought but couldn't resist.
Yesterday was a good day; today I ache all over.
Moved pots of narcissus from behind the greenhouse and set them around the garden.
Like @WillowBark l am finding hairy bittercress everywhere. It's supposed to be mild again tomorrow so l think weeding is on the agenda.