My gardening consists of directing the hubby where and what to plant, and what is not a weed.😆 ( no bending/lifting after operation for me) But I did manage to water the greenhouse and veg patch this morning, with the hose.😏
After much debate with OH, he has finally come round to my way of thinking and decided to ditch our box plants. Yesterday l cut back 2 that were around 3 feet high and started cutting them up. Can't remember how many caterpillars l came across, but it was in double figures. Couldn't see any more. Today l came back and decided to chop it all up even smaller and found 29 of the the little blighters. Heaven only knows how many are lurking in the front and back gardens 🤬. I still need to get the roots out but that's a mattock job for someone else. It's going to be a long haul. In other news, l moved the dwarf sunflowers and Cosmos out from the greenhouse to begin hardening them off.
Cleared some of the veg plants of weeds, planted out my cabbages and netted them. Happy with that! Just the rest of the path to clear of weeds (again! I hope they haven't sucked all the goodness out of the ground after a thorough manuring last autumn), sweet pea and climbing bean frame to put up and await my other veg plug plants to arrive. Meant to sow chard and cavello nero but never got around to it.
Said hello to all the plants and birds, deadheaded various flowers, watered my phlox and scabious, spun some blanket weed out the pond, dug up most of the Spanish bluebells, rehomed some snails, chatted to woodlice, chopped my peonies and trimmed my balls! 🤭
I have taken the gamble and planted out my tomatoes and cucumbers outside. Weather forecast for week ahead looks ok so I went for it. I have been hardening them off for over 2 weeks and am fed up with the daily in and out routine.
Major weeding on a veg bed that didn't get touched last year. I found a whole load of potatoes doing really well. Gave them some water, feed and a mulch. Still trying to get rid of twitch (couch grass) from a patch so that I can plant my beans out. Lots of bees on the raspberries.
Finished edging the grass (not a job I do every time we mow), potted on tomatoes (Plenty of spares so they can be for my work mates), planted out some more foxgloves, and planted out some sweet peas.
I’ve put the sweet peas in a large tub with wool, sand and a Marigold. If the slugs make a move, I will be gutted.
More forget-me-not and honesty pulling up (leaving a few honesty for seeds), planted a small selection of shade-lovers after giving that patch a good soak because it's dry as dust, and turned the compost (watered that as well).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Didn't get to the allotment today. I can only manage 1 day each week at the weekend. So am trialing ways to keep down weeds and lazy allotmenteering through necessity.
Does thinking about gardening count 😁Planted out as much as I could last week but ran out of time and left a tray of cauli in a shed which has no side, I'm thinking it will be a miracle if they survive without water for two weeks.
I also sowed three trays of peas snd beans but reason they should be ok and will be peeping through the compost when I get back 😄
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Yesterday l cut back 2 that were around 3 feet high and started cutting them up. Can't remember how many caterpillars l came across, but it was in double figures. Couldn't see any more. Today l came back and decided to chop it all up even smaller and found 29 of the the little blighters. Heaven only knows how many are lurking in the front and back gardens 🤬. I still need to get the roots out but that's a mattock job for someone else. It's going to be a long haul.
In other news, l moved the dwarf sunflowers and Cosmos out from the greenhouse to begin hardening them off.
Just the rest of the path to clear of weeds (again! I hope they haven't sucked all the goodness out of the ground after a thorough manuring last autumn), sweet pea and climbing bean frame to put up and await my other veg plug plants to arrive. Meant to sow chard and cavello nero but never got around to it.
I’ve put the sweet peas in a large tub with wool, sand and a Marigold. If the slugs make a move, I will be gutted.
Does thinking about gardening count 😁Planted out as much as I could last week but ran out of time and left a tray of cauli in a shed which has no side, I'm thinking it will be a miracle if they survive without water for two weeks.
I also sowed three trays of peas snd beans but reason they should be ok and will be peeping through the compost when I get back 😄