A morning of tweaking, although I have a huge long list of garden jobs to be done NOW - the pond man came to fit a new valve, so I enjoyed a natter and laugh with him - it's not all work and no play around here!
I've had a lovely day out in the sun on the south coast. I said yesterday to my other half that I didn't think I'd get the garden cut today as the lawn was still boggy yesterday, how wrong was I, front and back both cut and lawn Has really dried out. Forgot how quickly this happens due to facing south!
Also hand weeded all the borders, planted some more of my cutting flowers, put some seedlings out in my growing on area and went inspecting to see if any of my alliums are starting to get flower stalks, there are a few. My first year of alliums and I am so excited. Love Them 😁
Lovely sunny day. Put more seedlings into greenhouse/coldframe. Emptied ceramic pots and put plastic pots of tulips into them. Cleared away loads of leaf litter. Cleared blanket weed from pond. Split a canna. Got a site ready for my sweet peas (need to get more canes). All in all a very productive day.
Moved a Lamprocapnos spectabilis (bleeding heart) - which was just starting with about 2-3 inches of growth. Replaced it with a Magnolia stellata which has been in a pot for a year. Planted 2 bags of Anemone de caen which I'd overlooked - given overnight soaking first. Sowed some broad beans in root trainers. Repotted some lilies. Took down brassica netting. Dug potato trench and found the ground wasn't too wet so planting commences tomorrow. Super weather!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Tin Pot, re gluing broken pots, I have used Milliput putty which comes in packs of three in different colours. You have to knead it until colour uniform and use it like modelling clay. I couldn't get a good colour patch for my terracotta pots so had to overpaint it. That was 2-3 years ago and pot is still good. You need to wear disposable gloves and have some disposable scrapers/wooden sticks to smooth it down. Not the easiest of products to use - very sticky and you have to work fast. Goes completely hard in 2-3 hours. I think I got it off Ebay or Amazon. Hope this helps.
Replaced the dead pieris (which I erroneously described on this forum as skimmia and discovered I wrongly treated it) with a healthy one (Pieris: Flaming Silver - I like the red leaves along with the white flowers).
I created a healthy looking mixture of soil, compost, rotted horse manure, topsoil and sand - wetting it with an ericaceous feed. (I would welcome feedback on this concoction...just guesswork on my part!) I lined the base of the largish pot with gravel (about 1") and there was about 1½" of this soil below the teased out roots of the new plant. It felt like a major job but maybe that's due to my age + recovering from pneumonia!
Also took a chance (I think) by spraying the Red Robin black spotted leaves with a little Roseclear (supposed to be to treat black spots on rose leaves).
A 'weed' is just a plant in the wrong place - subjective!
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Also hand weeded all the borders, planted some more of my cutting flowers, put some seedlings out in my growing on area and went inspecting to see if any of my alliums are starting to get flower stalks, there are a few. My first year of alliums and I am so excited. Love Them 😁
That was 2-3 years ago and pot is still good. You need to wear disposable gloves and have some disposable scrapers/wooden sticks to smooth it down. Not the easiest of products to use - very sticky and you have to work fast. Goes completely hard in 2-3 hours. I think I got it off Ebay or Amazon.
Hope this helps.
I created a healthy looking mixture of soil, compost, rotted horse manure, topsoil and sand - wetting it with an ericaceous feed. (I would welcome feedback on this concoction...just guesswork on my part!) I lined the base of the largish pot with gravel (about 1") and there was about 1½" of this soil below the teased out roots of the new plant. It felt like a major job but maybe that's due to my age + recovering from pneumonia!
Also took a chance (I think) by spraying the Red Robin black spotted leaves with a little Roseclear (supposed to be to treat black spots on rose leaves).