This afternoon , started cleaning greenhouse , got rid of 2 chilli 🌶 plants and a basil 🌿 I have gravel beds so cleaned with jeyes fluid Next week will put in Bubble rap and start moving plants in there for the winter
Planted up Iris reticulata 'Harmony' into small windowsill terracotta pots so I can see them whilst I'm at the sink. The remaining ones I've planted in front of my new 'Elizabeth' potted roses. Then I weeded my second main bed in the front garden.
Picked my ripe chilies and put them under vinegar to preserve them until needed. Still a few to finish ripening. Made some cucumber soup, and decided it was more enjoyable served hot than cold. Made an apple and dried apricot crumble with some windfalls collected from my daughter's garden. Picked some flowers for indoors, the dahlias are at last getting going but full of earwigs. Yuck.
No gardening today. It is a glorious day, wall-to-wall blue sky and brilliant sunshine so a beach walk, with the dog, is the order of the day. By the time we get home I will be bushed and ready for a "feet up and cuppa rest".
That sounds lovely @Joyce Goldenlily, we're about as far from a beach/sea as you can get so I'm deeply envious.
I did some light pruning using a long reach pruner of tall rose climbers to prevent wind rock when we get the gales. I also moved an erigeron k. further forward in a bed so the snowdrops will have more room.
Grrrhhh! Didn't make the beach walk as planned. A level crossing was closed and someone had removed one of the diversion signs so I ended up doing a circle and found myself on the way home. I decide to make a small detour to collect a prescription from a chemist. There were 9 people in front of me in the queue, and by the time I left there were 15 people waiting to be served! I rather lost the will to live by then so came home and cleared a bark path of field grass, it took a couple of hours but the weather remained lovely and I unearthed a handkerchief the dog had buried so another job well done. We are going to try another beach today.
I too was clearing weeds from the front path and gravel area yesterday. Pulled the beding plants out of the tubs there, and then took them in the back for the winter. Must get some viola for the troughs. Cut a bunch of roses for a vase before the cold got to them. Then went and cut down two tomato plants that had finished in the greenhouse, while hubby cut back next-doors overhanging bushes.
Yesterday I scarified the lawns with my trusty old raking machine, then ran the mower over to tidy them up. Got bags of stuff out and the driest sunniest part looks as if I could pull out more if I went over it again, but I think I'll leave it until spring and see what it looks like then. Forecast rain overnight so I put on some autumn lawn feed (just feed, not moss/weedkiller - I don't like that stuff, too easy to get it wrong). We got 4mm of rain so it's nicely watered in now.
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I have gravel beds so cleaned with jeyes fluid
Next week will put in Bubble rap and start moving plants in there for the winter
Then I weeded my second main bed in the front garden.
It is a glorious day, wall-to-wall blue sky and brilliant sunshine so a beach walk, with the dog, is the order of the day. By the time we get home I will be bushed and ready for a "feet up and cuppa rest".
I did some light pruning using a long reach pruner of tall rose climbers to prevent wind rock when we get the gales. I also moved an erigeron k. further forward in a bed so the snowdrops will have more room.
Didn't make the beach walk as planned. A level crossing was closed and someone had removed one of the diversion signs so I ended up doing a circle and found myself on the way home.
I decide to make a small detour to collect a prescription from a chemist. There were 9 people in front of me in the queue, and by the time I left there were 15 people waiting to be served!
I rather lost the will to live by then so came home and cleared a bark path of field grass, it took a couple of hours but the weather remained lovely and I unearthed a handkerchief the dog had buried so another job well done.
We are going to try another beach today.
Cut a bunch of roses for a vase before the cold got to them.
Then went and cut down two tomato plants that had finished in the greenhouse, while hubby cut back next-doors overhanging bushes.