What are we doing in the garden 2025

I’ll try to encourage more input from them in border design @Selleri .

 

I got my little stretch of remaining boundary 'hedge' done later in the afternoon yesterday. The sun came out about 2pm and stayed for a few hours, so it was ideal for using a hedgetrimmer. I don't like using that if the weather's a bit iffy! The showers through late morning/early afternoon meant indoor stuff after I'd had my walk, so I potted on the wallflowers I'd sown, which were all doing well. Now I just have to find somewhere to plant them later...
Ripped up lots of the cardboard daughter had brought me back from work, so that went in the compost bin with the grass my neighbour had brought over. Deadheading and feeder filling was done too. Topped up the soil levels for the tomatoes too.
I doubt I'll do anything much today as it's to be wet from late morning-ish, so I'll get a walk, and then it might be the painting/footering in the shed.

 

Our native hedging on the front boundary by the road edge sorely needs a good trim @fairygirl
which we're hoping to get done before the school re-opens. It's a quite narrow virtually single track lane with no pavements so it means cones/green refuse bins and me keeping a lookout for speeding cars. Unfortunately our local farmer has just sold out so we won't be having his annual tractor trim this year. Takes him minutes rather than hours for us and is very good value at £40 for our stretch! We find the squirrel sown hazel trees in it grow faster than we can keep up.

Hope you have a dry walk, it's already raining here.

 

Nothing much today it's rain showers.

 

Yesterday I went to the plots and appart from watering and harvesting , I summer pruned the trained Apple trees. I have a nearly new pair of lopers , a bit smaller and lighter than my old adjustable ones. I decided to use them rather than secateurs, less strain on the one had and wrist. I did do a few finer cuts with secateurs, got 4 trees trimmed in 1/2 an hour.
Back home in the evening got the sprinkler out, I am so pleased I did, there was much more bird activity in the garden this morning. We've had one shower , and set to have more, at least it might soak in rather than run off, now the ground is damp.

 

Got my walk dry [almost] @lizzie27 , but the rest of the day was pretty much a washout, so I only did a few bits and pieces later in the afternoon when it cleared up - deadheading and more feeder filling.
Hope you get your hedge done soon. Always tricky for that sort of thing. I have the problem of the selfish a***hole who lives at the back of me, who likes to park one of his many vehicles [transit van] right on the corner of the road my main boundary is on, and he parks it up on the pavement -leaving very little room for getting past. You'd struggle to get past with a pram. We have an access road between us, but because of his parking, it also means it causes a problem with visibility when going out. He's utterly selfish and thoughtless. Fortunately, the lad along from me had been in, so his car was there instead, and despite being young, and only driving for a couple of years, he parks responsibly, so I was able to get most of my boundary clipping done the other day no problem.
Not much will be done today as I have to go out this morning, and it's to be wet on and off all day anyway. I'll have a quick walk shortly, and maybe some painting later.

 

Although we had several showers yesterday, we had very little rain overall. Hasn't refilled our waterbuts. Nothing done yesterday we were busy with other things. Allotments today, I need to get put some support wires up for the new Raspberry row. After a poor start they have finally put on a decent amount of growth.

 

Neighbours like that are the pits aren't they @fairygirl.

Allotment Boy May I ask you how you are going to do the support wires for your raspberries? Mine have grown really tall and are leaning towards the light so I've been thinking of redoing and improving the access to them anyway.

 

Nothing much today it's raining but light rain.

 

@lizzie27 - re those neighbours. Indeed
I didn't do a lot yesterday, but I did some rearranging beside the shed so that I could bottle up the other bucket of comfrey food I had. I doubt I'll use it now, so it can keep till next spring. I suppose it may not have the full strength, but it was free, so that's always a plus. Apart from a heavy shower when I first went out at about half 2, it stayed fairly dry until later on in the evening, so that made things easier, although I chose to do those jobs as the bit right in front of the shed stays drier unless there's proper rain. It was around us a lot of the time and we were missing a fair bit of it.
Grass needs a trim, but it'll depend on the weather today, which is to be similar to yesterday. I might just have to do it if there's a short drier spell, even though the grass itself will be wet. Just how it is here though. It's to be very wet tomorrow, so I'd have to leave it until Sun or Mon, and they're to be much like today. I'd rather do it when it isn't any longer, as it takes even more time to dry off. The gold lonicera hedge needs a small tidy up, so that's also a possibility. It's done really well - all grown from cuttings I took.

 

Well we have rain at long last so it looks like I won't be gardening today.

@lizzie27 I'll take a picture next time I'm there. Basically put a post either end, I use a metal socket and a piece of 2" square post. Then it depends on what type you are growing. For summer ones ( which tend to grow taller) I use vine eyes and a single strand of wire up the middle. You then tie the canes to the wire. For Autumn type put a short cross bar on the post end and string the wire through, use one in front and one behind. The RHS have a good explanation look up Raspberry cultivation. Can't seem to post a link sorry.

 

Did some more weeding and trimming the grass edge on another border, hubby bought a new pair of shears that are a bit lighter so that i could use them, needed a new pair anyway because the old ones went rusty.

 

After the rain in the recent two days, the soil starts to get workable again.
Took out the 3 crocosmia Luzifer that survived last year’s clearance.
Added soil to all the holes that fox and hedgehog have been digging recently. Poor hedgehog had probably only dried earthworms in the recent months as diet and looks now for fresh food in the beds.
Cut down neighbours’ ivy and our own pivet hedge which is the last remaining little stump in the corner of the garden from originally 6x 3 metre high tree plants along the fence on the south side.