I'm worried about digging there a my Euonymus is very near by and I would hate to kill it. I'ts Green and White with a pink tinge to the edges and covers two fence panels.
Yesterday fixed up my small shed in garden with new roofing felt and wood frame and extra wood on back as rats trying to get in there - bird food stored all in metal tins inside so no way of getting the food, also put up fence panel
Today did a lot of collecting paving slabs, got to see the great tits going in their caravan
My seed tray in plastic grow house in garden they have little trays with lids on and some have germinated sown on this Monday lettuce - had to check them and was surprize they were up is quite warm in there
normally when using the plastic grow house I clean out to start with then leave zipped up for a few days to warm up then seed sowing and put trays in
I've had my parents visiting with the aim of competing the big bits of this year's gardening project. Well we succeeded and it makes the garden look so different.
Sunny but cold here. Started out in two fleeces this morning brrr. I've finished revamping a corner by the woodshed by potting up a Clematis Montana Warwickshire Rose and a Spotty Dotty. Planted a couple of Trilliums by the pond. Potted on Night Scented Stock and Fuchsias. Tidied up the bin area and relocated a toad found lurking there and finished up by cutting back a pyracantha that was too near a window we are about to paint. I've come in for a warm before deciding whether I have enough energy to do something else.
Apparently it's car washing afternoon here - for the men, whilst this morning the back gate was prepared for staining (Jackson's gate) whilst I sowed more wild flower seeds and prepared an old washing up bowl for the arrival of new tadpoles courtesy of a friend who has plenty to spare (we only had one frog waiting for a mate in our pond this Spring). Now to look up how best to feed them.
Potted on tomatoes and sowed basil, lemon basil, coriander and chives. Now breaking up pallets to build a potting/work table and will get the grass cut too! The silver birch I planted in the autumn (1 of which I moved a few weeks ago are just breaking into leaf now so can breathe a sigh of relief now! 😀
I overdid it again in the school garden (back and hips ache like mad) so could only do standing up jobs like cutting down the forsythia before the new fence goes up. The main trunk is very old and big and I think is pushing over the dwarf wall next to it - it was planted far too close, not by me, I hasten to add. Not sure what to do about it as impossible to dig it out (roots embedded under big rockery stone).
Emptied out an old hanging basket and found vine weevil grubs in the compost so have put this on the lawn for the birds to eat hopefully. Are the eggs visible and will they also hatch out? What should I do with the compost?
My gardening this morning was in mother in law's garden. Dug out a load of Spanish bluebells, had to promise her l will put some back ! OH dug out a load of soil which we then bagged up. He laid a couple of paving stones and put the bird feeder on it while l pruned the hydrangeas. She has a couple of concrete planters which weigh a ton, after we cleared all the stones etc. from the bottom of them, we could just about carry them to the car. OH painted them this afternoon and also repaired the bird house feeder while l chopped up bluebells for the green waste bin. @Lizzie27 l also found vine weevil grubs in a hanging basket, l chucked the whole lot in the green waste bin. I have found quite a few in various pots in the coldframes and have become ruthless in getting rid of the compost as l'm paranoid about missing the grubs.
Went to GC Wyevale to get extra points for this weekend, bought some blue anemone plants, lobelia trailing, and small hanging basket plants also bird food - just garden shopping today - will be lots of planting to do
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Well we succeeded and it makes the garden look so different.
Just waiting for the rope to arrive now 🌻
Emptied out an old hanging basket and found vine weevil grubs in the compost so have put this on the lawn for the birds to eat hopefully. Are the eggs visible and will they also hatch out? What should I do with the compost?
@Lizzie27 l also found vine weevil grubs in a hanging basket, l chucked the whole lot in the green waste bin. I have found quite a few in various pots in the coldframes and have become ruthless in getting rid of the compost as l'm paranoid about missing the grubs.