I just spent a quick hour digging up more unwanted box hedging stumps. Slow work but I'm getting there. Realized yesterday I'd forgotten about using my mini mattock - really useful for hacking away at roots.
We have all year round garden waste collection , still manage to fill it , even though I have 4 compost bins at allotment Don’t compost weeds or thick stems eg sprout storks
@Lizzie27 if you have more to do leave a large section of central stem to aid levering out the stump.
I collected 3 barrows of compost from a neighbour, he has a 6 ton trailer that he just piles all his grass and leaves into all year round. It's piled high and just needs the top 6 inches forking away for the completely composted material below. It's going out as a mulch on my jungle area, hopefully it'll give the plants a good boost.
Had a really good weeding session in the flower beds. Deep dandelions were coming out a treat after all that wet. Was determined to get all the weeds out from around my emerging Eryngiums and Astrantias. I'm usually quite tolerant of Herb Robert but I was ruthless today - there was tons of it! But I had to admit defeat with the Aquilegias that had self-seeded right in amongst the Heleniums. Too dangerous trying to get those deep roots out.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
In the last few days I have potted on 46 assorted sweet peas and peas, potted on a few other things, planted out a couple of Babbington's leeks I 'found' down the bottom of the garden in a pot, sown 12 small pots of tomatoes and one of aubergines, constructed a raised bed and done a bit of tidying. Today, though, all I did was bring the broad beans out of the greenhouse... then put them back in again! We have a bit of a shallow lake going on down the bottom of the garden. It must have just reached critical saturation point with the drizzle, oddly. The grass needs cutting but that's husband's job. (He doesn't do anything else in the garden.)
Another day outside, I hate sitting inside after decades of being outdoor on the turf, 5 degrees and I am quite comfortable in a jumper.
Today, another day of the huge challenge of this year the good ladies 70th, I am juggling seedlings and plants like you would not believe, no greenhouse just a 6 foot window on a garage, and thankfully its pretty mild, after moving in here just over a year ago.
The good lady thinks I have gone bonkers on the amount of plants I am trying to grow, and I have found you tube of great help as plants is a whole new ball game for me.
I am growing from seed/ splitting and dividing any thing I can get a cutting from. the garage is full, the kitchen worktop above a radiator is full of new seed starts.
Why
Apart from the good ladies 70th this year we both try to raise funds for Breast Cancer, so any plants I have left over which will be quite a few I hope to sell at the bottom of the drive and raise funds, and the good lady has a cancer coffee morning Early April.
Hopefully that will introduce me to some of the members.
First proper gardening day today. A few scrams and fully expecting sore legs and back tomorrow. Who needs the gym!
This month is all about tidying and clearing. I’ve taken a chance and started pruning off the Hydrangea heads. I leave them to help protect the new buds, but the one I’ve done today is quite sheltered.
I’m maxing-out on receptacles already so I think I’ll make a rough compost pile this year, in addition to my two bins.
No seed compost in SM so will have to go to a GC this weekend.
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Don’t compost weeds or thick stems eg sprout storks
I collected 3 barrows of compost from a neighbour, he has a 6 ton trailer that he just piles all his grass and leaves into all year round. It's piled high and just needs the top 6 inches forking away for the completely composted material below. It's going out as a mulch on my jungle area, hopefully it'll give the plants a good boost.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
The grass needs cutting but that's husband's job. (He doesn't do anything else in the garden.)
Hopefully some planting this afternoon.
Today, another day of the huge challenge of this year the good ladies 70th, I am juggling seedlings and plants like you would not believe, no greenhouse just a 6 foot window on a garage, and thankfully its pretty mild, after moving in here just over a year ago.
The good lady thinks I have gone bonkers on the amount of plants I am trying to grow, and I have found you tube of great help as plants is a whole new ball game for me.
I am growing from seed/ splitting and dividing any thing I can get a cutting from. the garage is full, the kitchen worktop above a radiator is full of new seed starts.
Why
Apart from the good ladies 70th this year we both try to raise funds for Breast Cancer, so any plants I have left over which will be quite a few I hope to sell at the bottom of the drive and raise funds, and the good lady has a cancer coffee morning Early April.
Hopefully that will introduce me to some of the members.
This month is all
about tidying and clearing. I’ve taken a chance and started pruning off the Hydrangea heads. I leave them to help protect the new buds, but the one I’ve done today is quite sheltered.
I’m maxing-out on receptacles already so I think I’ll make a rough compost pile this year, in addition to my two bins.