WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

Although some time ago. I found Suttons, most helpful. I was at the time working and also tutoring. They provided me with a vast amount of grass seed for identification purposes, also. In addition to my already status. They were always there to help on the technical and scientific matters.

Try them. Take time to set sown your questions and then submit. I am sure you will get the very best of help.

 

As it's not raining I can get out and tidy up some of the frosted dead bits. Then there are rocks and soil to move from A to B.

 

Almost light when Mr.W, Cats and me wandered about the garden, me with a camera.
eve r want something outside in to do..needs organizing here and there.


above ,what I did yesterday, for a while as was bitter cold on the hands ,
moved back the whole front and once the grass grows back it will look better.

Here are two cherry trees defo ornamental going by the taste and the trunk of a poor never produced one edible peach just hundreds of waste ones...Had to go. There was two huge Pampas Grasses where the new Hebe and Flower Pots are at the mo..To the left is a patio moi laid completely on my own... on hard flatten soil no concrete or sand used..several years now and it's ok really..Pond is within that patio...
Two very tasty Cherry Trees and the birds even save us a few. one is black
and one is red. Make Jam and Pies with them and use a fork with two bended
outside prongs to remove the cherry stones.Looking back at it maybe just one
cherry tree in the photo, also had the flash on but still a tad dark..

Curly Willow just started to shoot.

Mr. W's work, he has made many in the past for Barbie Keels Animal Sanctuary near Bexhill.

This Fuchsia keeps its leaves all the year around and is the only type that has survived in our garden.

 

I've just had a look, Logan and don't appear to have any!
I had planned to have a look today at my seed catalogue, (Parkers)with the idea of purchasing some annuals for cut flowers, but not sure what.
I was thinking of trying to grow chillis, I think they need a long growing season. I don't have a greenhouse though.
Sorry if I'm a bit vague, I just want to get started.

 

Sun came out briefly very briefly...



A Very Good Fig Tree with fruit as above....

 

Mmmmm love figs!! Our neighbours have a huge one right next to our greenhouse....it's loaded with fruit , and they don't like figs!!

 

If you have a sunny window you can still grow seeds and Chillies, when they come up turn the tray round every day so they get equal light both sides I've just sown my chillies.

 

Just been around and re-takes..plus...after lunch here

compost heap dug back about a metre...

two cherry tress...mound in view reddish under soil..

some ornamental cherry tress and a bye bye..gone now peach tree..shame


e with my
Cannot not have a netball net and post....me chief shooter....

bushes hiding the fosse..The tree to the left on border we call Snowball tree..short flowering and like cherry blossom...end up like a sea of petals...

 

Ventured into the 15c sunlight (gosh is it bright). Surprising I don't seem to have totally lost anything, not even my new Hibiscus babes, but a few things will need trimming back where tips of shrubs/plants didn't like the prolonged cold. I will wait till February to do that. Pleased overall with everything.

 

sunglass time sunlight can damage your eyes easily over time.......I wear glasses and have light intelligent ones...

 

@Victoria 15C nearly like a summer day here that , have you not had any snow like Spain ?

Looks like you have a reasonable size garden DianneW , I have had fruit trees before which don't fruit or fruit properly , they can be there for years in hope you may get at least one edible piece of fruit .

 

A dull day today but at least its not raining or snowing . I washed my pots last night and cleaned my label the night before . Organise the pots and sowing station in the GH so I can sow some seeds today - Begonia - Verbena pendula - salvia hastata which I am having problems with germinating they're going in the fridge along with the Crassula which doesn't want to germinate either , also sowed some Veronicastrum Album .

Rake one the borders surprised the mess I lifted from cutting back so chucked that on my shredding pile , got the lawnmower out and proceeded to shred all the garden waster for the compost heap.

 

Hi Perki. No, we don't get snow down here in Algarve. We don't get frost because we don't go that low. Actually we are in our winter months now. Been coming here since 1984, owning since 1988 and living since 2001. A perfect place.

 

got an acre quite painful that...

We have lost two plums trees an apple tree two small pear trees that where very tasty and one more small pear tree that is just hanging on..looks rough now...We have tree greenish plums sweet though left near the house.. they are all old trees so guess they have a life span like most things.
We have just one apple tree and the fruit is small and dry to the taste...We have a walnut tree that hangs over the end garden..where they have several and we all share them out..lots are dried up inside though...maybe an age thing again..they all look ancient.