What's happened Mrs Garden? Is your garden flooded...?
I can't really account for the time I spent gardening this weekend - don't seem to have done much but it took the best part of two days
Potted on sunflowers and some nemesia that are intended for the baskets...did a bit of post-bulb admin...fed the birds 100 times...oh, I moved a gloomy Brownie rose as I don't know why it's ailing...managed to cram a schizostylis inbetween 4 alliums without breaking one! A minor triumph Meant to put up 2 trellises for the North facing climbers but found my heart wasn't in it and I'm saving the rest of my basket and pot planting-up for next weekend
Friend brought around a half load of dirt for my newest raised bed. I filled the bottom with grass clippings, un composted compost, tree prunings, etc. Anything I had around the yard that would eventually turn into dirt. The soil we topped the bed with isn't fantastic, just standard topsoil local to here.. a weird sandy clay. Once they are hardened off, I'll fill it with veg vines and tomatoes. I've already planted peas along the long edge last weekend, but they've not poked up yet. I've bought some bagged compost to fill in around the plants prior to putting them in, to mix in in their immediate area. Can't afford to amend all the topsoil just yet.
It was great spending time in the garden on Saturday after weeks at the drawing board and computer. Earthed up potatoes, potted up Agapanthus which were still in their black nursery pots (and some I had been given still in supermarket plastic bags!). I now have a good starter collection of Agapanthus and can't wait to see the inapertus in bloom. Plus lots of other little jobs. Weather horrid today, in fact rain all week until Thursday, which is good because there is a large delivery of plants for my client, so will be spending quite a few days planting.... Going to Chelsea on Friday - can't wait as I have not been for a few years.
Spent most of yesterday in the garden, cut front and back grass. Trimmed all edges. Found a few new weeds.....moved a few plants around. Hopefully have rescued a munched hosta
Was going to play out there again today, but its hissing down and rathrr breezy.
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yvie, what have you planted / going to plant in the pots? Looking for inspiration as I'd better not put anything else in the swamped garden!
Another good day , cut back lawn then afternoon at allottment , a bit cloudy but generally a nice day
still lots to do in garden , just watched 1.st Chelsea garden show , looks like it is going to be good
What's happened Mrs Garden? Is your garden flooded...?
I can't really account for the time I spent gardening this weekend - don't seem to have done much but it took the best part of two days
Potted on sunflowers and some nemesia that are intended for the baskets...did a bit of post-bulb admin...fed the birds 100 times...oh, I moved a gloomy Brownie rose as I don't know why it's ailing
...managed to cram a schizostylis inbetween 4 alliums without breaking one! A minor triumph
Meant to put up 2 trellises for the North facing climbers but found my heart wasn't in it
and I'm saving the rest of my basket and pot planting-up for next weekend
Planted five young delphiniums,field scabious and cerinthe
Nasturtiums in pots.
Early start to catch up with allotment jobs - clearing overgrown bed (found currant bushes), strimming undug beds, three bags of weeds for the tip.
Late afternoon in the garden - weeding, cutting back, potting on veg, planting divided plants in new border, lawn edges trimmed, tidied and swept up.
Amazing what the threat of rain can lead to!
Friend brought around a half load of dirt for my newest raised bed. I filled the bottom with grass clippings, un composted compost, tree prunings, etc. Anything I had around the yard that would eventually turn into dirt. The soil we topped the bed with isn't fantastic, just standard topsoil local to here.. a weird sandy clay. Once they are hardened off, I'll fill it with veg vines and tomatoes. I've already planted peas along the long edge last weekend, but they've not poked up yet. I've bought some bagged compost to fill in around the plants prior to putting them in, to mix in in their immediate area. Can't afford to amend all the topsoil just yet.
It was great spending time in the garden on Saturday after weeks at the drawing board and computer. Earthed up potatoes, potted up Agapanthus which were still in their black nursery pots (and some I had been given still in supermarket plastic bags!). I now have a good starter collection of Agapanthus and can't wait to see the inapertus in bloom. Plus lots of other little jobs. Weather horrid today, in fact rain all week until Thursday, which is good because there is a large delivery of plants for my client, so will be spending quite a few days planting.... Going to Chelsea on Friday - can't wait as I have not been for a few years.
Spent most of yesterday in the garden, cut front and back grass. Trimmed all edges. Found a few new weeds.....moved a few plants around. Hopefully have rescued a munched hosta
Was going to play out there again today, but its hissing down and rathrr breezy.
Hello ,hoped to do a bit of tidying up this morning but it is also Hissing it down
Trip to tip with 6 bags of waste from allottment