Swept the Big Garden sidewalk of fallen leaves and oak silks. My property is heavily treed. That's about it so far. Watered some of the youngest plants again.
Planted the maincrop potatoes, dug out a load of mint roots which had invaded the corner of a veg bed, moved half a dozen strawberries which were growing in the wrong place, sowed runner, two types of climbing and borlotti beans all in deep root trainers. Did a fair bit of weeding, concentrating on the cleavers which are now going rampant!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Pricked out tagetes, French Marigolds and cleomes; potted up 6 courgettes and ten tomato plants and sowed more seeds including GW free cornflower seeds. (I sowed the rudbekias on Tuesday and they were up in 3 days!)
Then had to evict some overwintered plants from the greenhouse as I'm running out of space in the conservatory.
Repotted bay tree and top dressed some other large potted plants.
Fed and watered potted tulips that are now going over.
A short sharp shower this morning gave the reluctant gardeners reason not to attack the veg patch which is in a sorry state. However this afternoon OH sowed some carrot seed directly into the soil. We desperately need rain too, - there are clouds out there now, but whether it actually rains is another matter.
Still waiting for some rain here GWRS - I have slug nematodes to water on and the ground is very dry. I'll carry on outside for now - plenty to do at this time of the year!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Rain - we could do with some here VS - I am spending at least 30 minutes each evening just on the watering. The butts are empty, so it is down to using the tap and hose. I suppose once the rain does come, we will be complaining that it all comes at once!
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Swept the Big Garden sidewalk of fallen leaves and oak silks. My property is heavily treed. That's about it so far. Watered some of the youngest plants again.
Planted the maincrop potatoes, dug out a load of mint roots which had invaded the corner of a veg bed, moved half a dozen strawberries which were growing in the wrong place, sowed runner, two types of climbing and borlotti beans all in deep root trainers. Did a fair bit of weeding, concentrating on the cleavers which are now going rampant!
Pricked out tagetes, French Marigolds and cleomes; potted up 6 courgettes and ten tomato plants and sowed more seeds including GW free cornflower seeds. (I sowed the rudbekias on Tuesday and they were up in 3 days!)
Then had to evict some overwintered plants from the greenhouse as I'm running out of space in the conservatory.
Repotted bay tree and top dressed some other large potted plants.
Fed and watered potted tulips that are now going over.
A short sharp shower this morning gave the reluctant gardeners reason not to attack the veg patch which is in a sorry state. However this afternoon OH sowed some carrot seed directly into the soil. We desperately need rain too, - there are clouds out there now, but whether it actually rains is another matter.
Hello , cleaned and sorted out g/h this morning , just finished when the rain came
Over wintered pots now out
Only got some chilli ? plants and cabbages growing need to start the seeds of
Still waiting for some rain here GWRS - I have slug nematodes to water on and the ground is very dry. I'll carry on outside for now - plenty to do at this time of the year!
Not done much today, worked on my daffodil wishlist.
Been raining off and on for a few hours - yippee ?
It'll bring out all the snugs but not to worry, I think it'll freshen everything up nicely.
Saves watering this early in the season
I'm a butt and a half down already
Rain - we could do with some here VS - I am spending at least 30 minutes each evening just on the watering. The butts are empty, so it is down to using the tap and hose. I suppose once the rain does come, we will be complaining that it all comes at once!