What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

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      Oooo, don't forget to remove that before you use them again!

      Nothing's been done in my garden for weeks. The weather swings between wet and windy and frosty.
       
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        Thanks @Logan.:)

        I have about 40 Geraniums and 16 non hardy Fuchsias and have had them for years now. Each year I cut them right back and then put them in the cold frame and forget about them. Once a month they get a quick check over but I never water them until mid March. I do the same with my Dad's plants too, although I noticed one of his Geraniums budding up today , so I removed the buds to conserve the plants energy.
         
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          The gentleness and mildness of today pulled me out into the garden at around midday. I'd changed into my mucky gardening trousers, put on some gloves, shoved Secateurs, Scissors, a sharp knife into my pockets, as well as a small hand fork. So,dragging a large empty garden sack I got down on my knees on the central path and started gathering all the plant debris off the borders on either side of me while taking care not to damage any of the green shoots poking out of the soil.
          It's amazing how, when you've got the time and you're on your knees, how you suddenly really connect with the garden and see things that you would have missed had you been "ambling" along, with some of the Roses, still green foliage bringing back memories of planting certain plants and of the many good years when you did so. It also emphasises some how just how many jobs there are to be done, while also bringing the anticipation and excitement of seeing the garden come into Life again in the Spring.
          I spent just over 3 hours on my knees filling two garden sacks with debris, cutting and pruning old stems down, transplanting a Teasel or two into new, better positions. I've also been warring, in determination, with the Couch Grass that seems to love my black, loamy, light soil, over the last couple of years and taking up sackfulls of the long white roots. This year I seem to be winning as today, when finding a grass shoot and digging it up, I found only short white roots that came away easily but they were small in number .:hapydancsmil: There are still some remnants hiding against Shrub and Rose stems but a small artists brush wet with Weedkiller will find them out.
          I still have the West and East borders to sort out, the bottom border that runs the width of the garden, and the East side of the long "walk around" border with clumps of Phlomis, Day Lilies, Japanese Anemones to divide and reduce in size, but I can, and have to:old:, do those jobs over time.
          Then after all that , there was the small matter of getting up into standing position so I could get that Mug of Tea I deserved.:hate-shocked::wallbanging:
           
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            Probably doesn't want to start singing Soprano, loli:dunno::hate-shocked::heehee:
             
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              Only went to the garden center to get some moss peat and one of my daughters in law came along for the ride. We got the bag of peat and then she was telling me she needs a place for her "hopefully will sprout" asparagus fern. So that pot is going down into my indoor area. Never seen one of these plants, or if I did, I don't remember it.:scratch:
               
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                @Upsydaisy yes i don't water them much, i usually forget. I can keep the geraniums going but sometimes the fuchsias don't make it, i take cuttings of them but i forget to do it, but the small plants from the gc don't cost a lot.
                 
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                  I grew one many "moons" ago, Lori, and it's a pretty very fine foliaged fern. I didn't know a weed from a rose in those days, so it didn't survive for long.:doh:

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                        Planted my Eupatorium cannabinum. Hopefully it will encourage butterfly species which I've never had in the garden before to visit, like Holly Blues, Ringlets and Meadow Browns.

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                          If you cut the Fuchsias back hard they will go dormant, keep them frost free ( not in the house) and they should be absolutely fine. I also take cuttings from them when I cut them back in the Autumn and root them in individual pots of water indoors, I leave them there all winter and pot them up in Spring.:dbgrtmb:
                           
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                            Busy afternoon today. Cut half of the grass in front garden twice. It will need a third cut. The daffodils under the cherry trees had become swamped by grass and weeds but as the daffodils have started sprouting I couldn't get the strimmer in there. I pulled the grass and weeds out by hand, which took around an hour. Scattered a 70l bag of compost over the newly exposed daffs. Need to buy more compost tomorrow. Tidied up the edges around the daffs. Made a start on reclaiming the raised bed by the boat seat. It's very overgrown. I've done half of it. So much couch grass in there and my other planting areas too. Unlike ARMANDII my couch has very long roots :gaah:. Planted my recently bought pot of daffs by the pond, splitting them into 3 bunches.

                            I sat on the bench with a coffee after I had finished watching the Bluetits checking out a nest box and listening to a Chaffinch. Someone on the farm lit a fire and I noticed smoke beginning to drift up the lane and across my garden. Immediately my thoughts turned to the wildfires in Australia and the impact on the wildlife and domestic animals :cry3::cry3::cry3:. It's something I've been thinking about a lot over the past few weeks. I read that the current estimate is half a billion with the wildlife suffering the highest losses. I've already sent money to a couple of rescue places in Australia. I don't like giving money as I don't know where it goes exactly, I'd rather pay for something instead. But, I felt I had to do something.
                             
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                              The Couche Grass I've been warring with over the years, lucius, had in the early years, roots running up to 20 inches in length:hate-shocked: My soil is very light and easy to work with so I could follow a root that was just below the surface quite easily to the end, but you only have to leave a tiny bit in for it to come back quickly. Two years ago I managed to get the main body of roots out filling two garden sacks, and then last year attacked the surviving grass reducing it even further. Now I just have grass shoots cowering in the shelter of the Shrubs and Roses which I will kill off with a small soft brush and weedkiller........hopefully.:doh:
                               
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                                Cleaned it off as soon as we were done. Old towel and white spirit. They are cleaner than theyve been for a long time.
                                 
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