WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

hopefully I can get outside for a bit. Will gather some sticks and continue to burn a stump out, at the same time have some old financial papers to burn on the pile. Also weed and feeding. cannot believe this one weed can grow on top of the mulch put down last fall, dam.
try to take a walk around with a video for you all, the one garden is busting with blue flowers.

 

Did a little weeding here and there around the beds and the herb patch.

Planted the Arran Pilot new potatoes.

Sowed some Rudbeckias and Aquilegias in the greenhouse.

 

Ha ha one of my doggies loves it....likes to roll in it. And she digs in the pots where there is blood fish and bonemeal. Yuk!

 

Planted up potato bags and built up runner bean supports.

I've sown some verbena bonarisis, echinchea, Dalia bishops children and rubekia ( all spelt wrong I think).

Potted on a miniature buddelia and 5 hardy fuschias all of which came from my old house when I moved. Plan is to put them in the new herbaceous border/area I will be making in the next few weeks. What I don't want I will give to the in laws as they have just revamped their garden.

Rusty

 

Weather here yesterday was just horrible, so cold and windy with clouds of fine, misty rain drifting across the fields and the garden. Bought a new cordless strimmer so went outside anyway to test it. Put out more food for birdies and refreshed their drinking water and that was it.

 

It's been nice and sunny but the brisk breeze made it unpleasant to be outside, so I went into one of my perspex shelters and repotted lots of cuttings I took last year - Box, Lonicera nitida, Euonymus, Crassula ovata ...

 

@Michael Hewett you have a good number of similar succulents there (Crassulas etc), are they just part of your collection or do you have a outlet?

 

I had a large C. ovata and it fell and lots of the branches broke, so I used them as cuttings. I don't know what I'll eventually do with them ...
You can have one of you like

 

Planted all my chitted potatoes today...albert bartlett roosters, vivaldi & anyas. Went round cutting back spent daffs/tulips.

Really pleased with the crown imperial I planted....first time I've grown them...theyre beautiful!

 

Lush snorky! Mine got eaten

Diddly squat been done here except mow the front and back grass and fill bird feeders yesterday.

My fantastic neighbour decided to saw our boundary fence in half..(without telling me and while I was out) and has brought it down to about a 2.5 ft on my side. We can now see everything in each other gardens!