Planted a red hawthorn into front drive mixed border, bought another plum tree, still to be planted out, top dressed strawberries in pots, planted climbing rose against house, plus 4 other roses, including Gertrude Jeckyll and Darcy Bussell, planted freesias in pots and Glads in the ground and potted up 2 urns and 2 wall baskets with trailong annuals. A good day's work.
Cut the grass back and front. I did the back diagonally as well as square on.
The neighbour asked about planting asparagus. I said they'd need to resolve a sunny permanent spot for it and have good drainage, which they don't, so would need to add large sands or grit. Tried to download a video of Monty's Asparagus trench from GW to put on a pen drive for them to watch as their Internet is down.
Dug some manure into Clematis alpina which is a bit threadbare this year, and some into Camelia japonica. Deadheaded the Camelias.
Put some houseplants in the greenhouse to green them up a bit.
Saved another Bombus bee from drowning, warmed it, let it dry off and fed it. One of these days I'm going to get stung.
Seems I forgot to drill the holes in the bottom of the spearmint planter a few weeks ago and it was sitting under a leaky gutter.
Tried feeding the NZ flatworm I have in a vial with bits of slug. It looks like it is dead. I was trying to keep it alive to send it off to the Hutton, in case they are still taking samples.
I need a bigger greenhouse or at least some decent heavyweight racking.
Heavy rain overnight. That should cut down the watering a bit. I planted 63 broad bean plants and 90 gladioli on Friday, in alternate rows. It worked well last year. When the broad beans have finished, the gladioli take over.
Saturday, I sowed the courgettes, mini cucumber, and giant pumpkin seeds.
Yesterday I sowed runner beans, climbing french beans, sweetcorn. 150 individual pots. All in next doors mouse proof conservatory until they sprout.
Today I intend to get the sweet pea plants in and tied to canes. Or I could watch the entire series of Poldark back to back while himself is in Manchester.
Busy doing nothing. ..need to litter pick and weed front garden and clip the topiary (very general shapes to Eleagnus, conifer and the big scraggy silver bush with blue flowers that I always forget the name of)
Also need to clip box balls in back garden and prune new shrubs to bush up but the sun's just come out
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Planted a red hawthorn into front drive mixed border, bought another plum tree, still to be planted out, top dressed strawberries in pots, planted climbing rose against house, plus 4 other roses, including Gertrude Jeckyll and Darcy Bussell, planted freesias in pots and Glads in the ground and potted up 2 urns and 2 wall baskets with trailong annuals. A good day's work.
Cut the grass back and front. I did the back diagonally as well as square on.
The neighbour asked about planting asparagus. I said they'd need to resolve a sunny permanent spot for it and have good drainage, which they don't, so would need to add large sands or grit. Tried to download a video of Monty's Asparagus trench from GW to put on a pen drive for them to watch as their Internet is down.
Dug some manure into Clematis alpina which is a bit threadbare this year, and some into Camelia japonica. Deadheaded the Camelias.
Put some houseplants in the greenhouse to green them up a bit.
Saved another Bombus bee from drowning, warmed it, let it dry off and fed it. One of these days I'm going to get stung.
Seems I forgot to drill the holes in the bottom of the spearmint planter a few weeks ago and it was sitting under a leaky gutter.
Tried feeding the NZ flatworm I have in a vial with bits of slug. It looks like it is dead. I was trying to keep it alive to send it off to the Hutton, in case they are still taking samples.
I need a bigger greenhouse or at least some decent heavyweight racking.
Yes, thank goodness for the rain, you can almost hear the plants slurping it up. It also salves my guilty conscience a little......
Heavy rain overnight. That should cut down the watering a bit. I planted 63 broad bean plants and 90 gladioli on Friday, in alternate rows. It worked well last year. When the broad beans have finished, the gladioli take over.
Saturday, I sowed the courgettes, mini cucumber, and giant pumpkin seeds.
Yesterday I sowed runner beans, climbing french beans, sweetcorn. 150 individual pots. All in next doors mouse proof conservatory until they sprout.
Today I intend to get the sweet pea plants in and tied to canes. Or I could watch the entire series of Poldark back to back while himself is in Manchester.
Busy doing nothing. ..need to litter pick and weed front garden and clip the topiary (very general shapes to Eleagnus, conifer and the big scraggy silver bush with blue flowers that I always forget the name of)
Also need to clip box balls in back garden and prune new shrubs to bush up but the sun's just come out
Oh well, guess I could plant something instead
everybody so busy , still on Holiday soon gardening , back Wednesday , to vote on Thursday , bet grass and hedges need doing
hope friend has looked after greenhouse as lots where coming up when we went away
nice & sunny at moment , heavy rain last night
Its a mess.
Scraggly shoot. Lopsided. Masses of flowers though.
A good water and a mulch to help it on its way
Tying and staking everything, blowing a hooley out there.
Put the Garden wheelie bin out for Council today , does that Count as Gardening ?
Did water greenhouse , nearly everything is coming up nicely , including potatoe sacks
and the clematis ball is starting to look good
should be nice tommrow so will cut lawns
Planted some hardy geraniums
Checked for wind damage.
Checked Canna to see why no shoots and contacted supplier to organise replacement
Watered greenhouse plants