Put down some more cardboard and compost, put bark down in one of my finished borders (hydrangea, buxus and euonymus (euonymus being lined up for when the inevitable happens to the buxus)), ericaceous compost on my rhododendrons and camellias and deadheaded. Feel a bit guilty as the birds kept landing on the compost, expecting to be able to pluck some worms from it and finding cardboard. Put out some mealworms to try and make it up to them...
I used my £50 bargain second hand garden shredder to shred my garden waste from 2 bins to 1. I also used my lawnmower to shred the green waste on my patio . This was while being rained on (light shower). I think I might finally be a gardener!
Allotments yesterday but mainly to pick produce & cut flowers. I too have been slowly getting round the lawn with the spring tine rake. I do have an electric model but it's buried at the back of the shed & a bit of a faf to get it out. Now we have had rain I think it might be a bit too harsh on the soft ground so have been dodging the showers doing a bit at a time.
We have spent a couple of hours today just picking up apples, pine cones and removing fallen echium, twigs and small branches. I hope this wind blows itself out soon.
Just half an hour between showers, mostly in the garage which serves me as a potting shed and storeroom. Emptied the kitchen waste bin into the compost - not sure this qualifies as gardening, some might call it housework. Watered some recently planted climbers. We've had plenty of rain, but as they're at the feet of walls, I wasn't sure it would have reached them. Potted up some gratifyingly well-rooted hydrangea cuttings, enough to fill nine pots, and only two had failed,and sowed a handful of greengrocer's filberts in a pot.
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Been to G/Centre and bought a bag of Horticultural Grit & 4 terracotta trays
This was while being rained on (light shower). I think I might finally be a gardener!