I've got quite a bit done today. Cut back a fence covered in ivy, left lots in another area of the garden as the bees are enjoying the flowers at the moment. Also cut back the top of the jasmine (well hubby did as I couldn't reach it with the shears and the long electric hedge trimmer hurts my back too much to use it for long). Mowed the lawns to gather all the bits up. Everything looks good now just the right mix of sharp lines and cottage garden growth.
Oh mowed the path around the field border, cut back a few brambles starting to root into the field. We removed 3 more bird boxes, giving them a good clean, repair, paint and will replace them once dried, filling them with hay or hair first. Only one had been used - sadly eggs were abandoned - they were tiny so perhaps a blue or great tit. We are lowering all our boxes - we think they may have been placed too high up the tree trunks?
Morning at allotment , brought last of potatoes 🥔 home the potatoes I spread out in g/h yesterday had dried , so sorted and bagged up and put the last lot out to dry Could do with cutting lawn but far to wet and tomorrow weather doesn’t look good
Weeded around the carrots, sprinkled some sawdust around them, then covered them over with a 12 inch polytunnel. Hopefully they can hang in there until I have time to harvest them. Snow visible above the valley, so frost is not far off for us.
Cleared a third of my garden that is overgrown with weeds. I managed a 1/6 of that last weekend when my clay soil was rock hard in the sun. Learning so much - now I understand it’s prudent to wait until the soil is workable.
Usually a lurker but will post today as am very excited. Have coveted heuchera for months and today I bought and planted some Wildberry heuchera together with some hakonechloa gold. Looks a bit sparsely spaced out at the moment but they join some Japanese anemones and an acer and I'm hoping to divide all the perennials in a few years' time and fill the space. I love the colours. Will add a white dicentra to it next month although I realised earlier that I haven't actually left enough space. Do you think I can plant it v close to the Japanese anemones on the basis that the latter will be dying down when the former are growing...?
Also I put down cardboard and compost on part of the garden. Will do another section tomorrow.
I just had time to dash out in between the showers to put a chicken wire dome with plastic cover to keep the rain off my strawberry planter which is up on a table. Didn't want it to get absolutely saturated as it doesn't drain too well. Shifted some left over wood to the logstore ( not sure why we've still got one as we don't burn wood in the fireplace any more!) OH says it's our emergency store when the EU turns our lights off.
No gardening today I'm aching too much from yesterday's endeavours. It's forecast to rain here for the next few days so I doubt much will get done. Having a large delivery of kiln dried wood for the logburner on Tuesday (it's due to pour down) so that will be fun and no doubt I'll be too shattered on Wednesday to do any gardening. Nanna duty Thurs and Fri so it will probably be next weekend before I get out there again, how depressing.
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the potatoes I spread out in g/h yesterday had dried , so sorted and bagged up and put the last lot out to dry
Could do with cutting lawn but far to wet and tomorrow weather doesn’t look good
Learning so much - now I understand it’s prudent to wait until the soil is workable.
Also I put down cardboard and compost on part of the garden. Will do another section tomorrow.
Rudbeckia are looking fine too