What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

That's cats for you, he must like your company, he must catch his own food.

That's a right thing to do not having him in your house. A long time ago i took in a cat during the day, i didn't know that it had fleas and they got into the carpet, i know all cats aren't like that but i wouldn't do it again.

 

Went over to my parents place this morning and gathered some more cuttings...fingers crossed. Not even sure what they are or if it's the right time to take cuttings...but nothing to lose...it's now or never!!

 

The good news is....
.... the cuttings don’t know if it’s the right time to be taken either!!

You can’t loose anything by trying.
When in doubt, do half as soft cuttings, half as semi-hardwood cuttings.

 

Cleared a load of stonecrop off the roof tiles. Sowed a row of carrots, sowed some Phacelia. Dug another two barrow loads of rocks out of the new shrub bed and watered.

 

Today I just trimmed more lavender bushes, to put bundles out for people to take, and watered the newly planted tomatoes.
I’m wondering if it is too late to prune a choisya ternata sundance? And a choisya ternata? Mum has two plants that are outgrowing their homes, and have not been pruned for years. (Both are over 3 metres across).

 

We've lost a lot too...definitely a sad year around. The garden isn't blooming as it should.

 

Just going to water the blueberries in pots, didn't do it last night. Take some cuttings of the trailing geraniums for next year.

Got 2 blueberry seedlings growing with the other blueberries, don't know if i should leave them until later on, I'm not very good at keeping up with the watering and they might get forgotten about.

 

More of a "What jobs was I doing last week..." since I haven't posted in this thread for yonks! I've been feeling limited in my gardening lately because my garden is so small and I have so many plants in bloomin' rows, I need to make my borders deeper and with all the inspiration here I wanted the space to experiment with height and colour combinations. So I started a new border which is about 2 x 4.5 metres at its widest/longest. Hard work turning over that uncultivated heavy clay! Nothing is in its permanent position yet, I'll be edging it with marjoram because the focus will be on plants that attract pollinators, especially butterflies. The philadelphus was already there but is far too short-flowering and no good for wildlife, it'll be moved to another part of the garden. I've planted veronicastrum, hebe, two salvias, persicaria, astilbe, knautia, echinacea, achillea, erisymum and eupatorium, the last of these seems to be struggling with the bottom leaves going brown and dropping off, any idea what the problem might be, guys? I still have Lythrum salicaria, Echinops bannaticus and Eryngium planum 'Blaukappe' (Gatekeeper butterflies and bees are loving that one!) to move to this border. Planning to lift half of the remaining turf today!

Nick

 

Did some pruning today and came across this bad boy . He didn't move a muscle and I was quite close.

I'm going to have to take my pond keeping responsibilities more seriously from now on.

 

We get frogs in our garden, but we don't have a pond,they like to hide around the pots. Going put in a lot of places for them to hide like bricks leaning against each other and stones.

 

Planting out various things. Out of interest how long does it take you to plant something?
I have just planted out 2 Eryngium which I grew from seed. (agavifolium and planifolium). It has taken me a good half hour per plant. Planting requires a sharp lawn edging tool to cut through the surface fibrous roots, a very heavy wrecking bar to excavate the 'soil', a pair of loppers to cut thicker tree roots, a bucket of wet manure, a pack of water retaining gel, a handful of mixed fertilisers(bonemeal, growmore and chicken pellets) and a trowel to back fill the hole. Plus gloves,watering can of water and another bucket to collect up the rubbish which comes out of the hole (broken crockery, scrap metal etc.)
Great fun.