Watered the tomatoes, they were wilting poor things. Picked a good few salad tomatoes and a few more cooking ones. Also picked a handful of runner beans. Gave the beans and some of the tomatoes to my neighbour, going to freeze the rest.
My Gertrude Jekyll rose is having a second flush of flowers, doing better than earlier in the year. A lovely perfume.
I've watered the pots by the front door that I forgot to do last night, picked off a few weeds and helped OH measure the driveway so we can get some quotes for relaying it. It's a long drive so going to be expensive! Then I felt a bit dizzy so have had to sit down for a rest again.
Not really any proper gardening today, but I've mowed the lawn, given everything a water, deadheaded the roses and the hanging baskets. Focus for autumn is to keep everything flowering as long as possible, as previously I've sort of given up by late summer, so given the baskets a quick feed as well.
Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
Just a bit of watering of recently-planted stuff today, because the rain that was in the forecast for tomorrow has all but disappeared 😠. Of course now I've watered it'll probably rain anyway.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Hello all , lots done in garden Major prune of Holly Tree that was over hanging next doors and now cut our side and cut back a standards Pyracantha, so prickly A bit worried about a Hawthorn Tree that the bird feeders are on , a lot of the leaves 🍁 have already dropped ? Also repair to fences
Going to allotment tomorrow morning , then away for weekend, need a break
Potted even more cuttings and seedlings. I think I need to stop. 😳 Let the grass dry for as long as possible and took the mower out about three o'clock. It is so wet still even after two dry days. I ploughed up and down and made a right mess but it's shorter so that's good. It's to pour tomorrow again so it had to be done. Had a chippie and that turned out to be a bad idea. I rushed out straight after with the little mower to do the front; I'm trying for a more formal look there and this is the start. Oh the indigestion with all that exercise and bending and stretching! The good news is that my lines, placed by eye after several failed attempts at measuring, are inch perfect. I can now get on with putting my boards in...when my chippie finally wears off! 🤢
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My Gertrude Jekyll rose is having a second flush of flowers, doing better than earlier in the year. A lovely perfume.
It's a long drive so going to be expensive! Then I felt a bit dizzy so have had to sit down for a rest again.
Major prune of Holly Tree that was over hanging next doors and now cut our side
and cut back a standards Pyracantha, so prickly
A bit worried about a Hawthorn Tree that the bird feeders are on , a lot of the leaves 🍁 have already dropped ?
Also repair to fences
Going to allotment tomorrow morning , then away for weekend, need a break
Best wishes to everybody not feeling to good
Let the grass dry for as long as possible and took the mower out about three o'clock. It is so wet still even after two dry days. I ploughed up and down and made a right mess but it's shorter so that's good. It's to pour tomorrow again so it had to be done.
Had a chippie and that turned out to be a bad idea. I rushed out straight after with the little mower to do the front; I'm trying for a more formal look there and this is the start. Oh the indigestion with all that exercise and bending and stretching! The good news is that my lines, placed by eye after several failed attempts at measuring, are inch perfect. I can now get on with putting my boards in...when my chippie finally wears off! 🤢