What's happening in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

My creeping phlox plug plants arrived yesterday.
I potted them out in a mixture of compost and topsoil.
They are presently in troughs on a tray on top of the two freezers in the room in the back of the garage, so will get some heat, be protected from frost and there is some light from a skylight above them. T
hey won't be joining the others in our rockery until it gets a bit warmer.
I may put them on the windowsill of the shed during the day, as it gets surprisingly warm in there, but they can't stay there over-night as it gets too cold.



I bought them on eBay, as I really like this colour.




I spent most of the day repairing the side fence. I replaced the bottom batons on eight of the panels and the first strip of Wany lap above, on two of them. The fence should be good for a few years yet, as I'd replaced the cappings on top of the panels three years ago.
The cable is the 12v supply to the two lanterns. I need to fix it to the base panel.

 

[big rockpile]

Probably did. This would require retrieving a memory.

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Looked it is Banana Tree.

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[Logan]

Nothing today i had to wash my hair.

 

[Anniekay]

I weeded my hot dry bed. Planted out 2 Moneymaker tomato plants that I grew from seed. I put them behind a Julia Child rose in my South facing bed by the house. I put one to the left, one to the right of it. Gave them lots of goodness, watered and mulched them.

Then I weeded my rose that is not thriving. I was going to remove it to see what was going on but when I tried digging it out, it was so firmly and deeply rooted that I decided to give it another chance !! There's a clematis that's behind it on a trellis. So, I added lime and compost to the clemattis, rose food and compost to the rose, watered and mulched them heavily. I bought a rose to replace this one. Now I have to figure out where to plant that one !!

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing today, just fed the birds and the squirrels, it was cold and rained in the afternoon.

 

[olly-buckle]

Cold and wet, but I planted a few seeds in the reenhouse and filled up the propagator, moved some things that were growing to the greenhouse to make room, and filled the greenhouse heater.
Also badger had broken into a compost bin, so I moved it to a better place, stacked some logs so they were wedged against the door, and moved the compost into it.

 

[big rockpile]

Turned Exhaust Fan on in the Greenhouse to bring humidity down.

Watered my plants.

Filled my Barrel in the Greenhouse with rain water I had caught which wasn't much.

Took some cuttings try to root them.

Ordered a deal that raise the tray up and whick water up to bottom of the tray.

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[Anniekay]

Harvested my first Cauliflower !! I have two more coming and hope they don't bolt before they get big. One is the width of a softball and the other a bit wider than a baseball.

Then My broccoli is so close to bolting I harvested every bit that was as big as a quarter or bigger and hope the heat holds off for a while longer.

 

[Logan]

Nothing today it's been raining, but Tuesday and Wednesday should be better.

 

[olly-buckle]

Harvested my first Cauliflower !! I have two more coming and hope they don't bolt before they get big. One is the width of a softball and the other a bit wider than a baseball.
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Then My broccoli is so close to bolting I harvested every bit that was as big as a quarter or bigger and hope the heat holds off for a while longer.

Wish I lived in S Georgia, it's still cold, wet and horrible horrible here, with a chance of frost still, I have just planted my cauliflower seeds.
I had a look at the map, not big your town is it? Google says you have a population of about 4,000, our little village is 2,600, and Hastings about eight miles away is 91,500 ish, and there are plenty of other largish towns within an hour's drive. There are a lot of people in our little island.
Anyway it was too wet and cold to want to leave the house today, garden looked after itself.

 

[Anniekay]

Wish I lived in S Georgia, it's still cold, wet and horrible horrible here, with a chance of frost still, I have just planted my cauliflower seeds.
I had a look at the map, not big your town is it? Google says you have a population of about 4,000, our little village is 2,600, and Hastings about eight miles away is 91,500 ish, and there are plenty of other largish towns within an hour's drive. There are a lot of people in our little island.
Anyway it was too wet and cold to want to leave the house today, garden looked after itself.

The City itself is only one mile square. The County has 14,000 some odd people in total which includes my City.
I am right on the edge of town. If you go over the bridge, which is just south of my house and spans the RR tracks (my house is the last before the bridge) you go about 4 blocks then it's farm country.

I'd love to have you all move to South Georgia but the summer heat and humidity might do you some mischief until you get used to it !!

 

[big rockpile]

Harvested my first Cauliflower !! I have two more coming and hope they don't bolt before they get big. One is the width of a softball and the other a bit wider than a baseball.
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Then My broccoli is so close to bolting I harvested every bit that was as big as a quarter or bigger and hope the heat holds off for a while longer.

I should raise some Cauliflower I have seed.

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[Anniekay]

I should raise some Cauliflower I have seed.

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Get the seed going because they love cool weather and will bolt as soon as it gets hot out .

 

[olly-buckle]

The County has 14,000 some odd people in total which includes my City.

"City" ?!! that's a big village I live in the county of Sussex, population about 1.7 million last count.

 

[Anniekay]

"City" ?!! that's a big village I live in the county of Sussex, population about 1.7 million last count.

I know, I know !! I was astounded as well !! In the states we have a choice of two types of government, either "Town Government" or "City Government". It doesn't matter what the population is. I agree; it should be called a Town if you go by size and population. I think the founders presumed that it would one day grow to "city size", but that day has yet to come !!

 

[olly-buckle]

Brooks county 14k people in 1290 sq km
County of Sussex 1.7 million people in 3,783 sq km.
That's almost a sq km each compared to just over 0.0022 each here. Not too crowded are you
Mind 'Sussex' is a bit out of date, they have divided the administration into East Sussex and West Sussex nowadays, not that it got any bigger.

 

[Anniekay]

Brooks county 14k people in 1290 sq km
County of Sussex 1.7 million people in 3,783 sq km.
That's almost a sq km each compared to just over 0.0022 each here. Not too crowded are you
Mind 'Sussex' is a bit out of date, they have divided the administration into East Sussex and West Sussex nowadays, not that it got any bigger.

Nope, not crowded at all. The smallest city lot is 1/4 acre. Most of us have a half acre like I do. We are considered to be a Rural city. It's 17 miles to Valdosta which is the closest "big town" for shopping and once you get out of town, it's 15 miles of rural, mostly undeveloped land between here and Valdosta. A couple rivers run through there. It's a nice drive to Valdosta and hardly any traffic.

 

[Anniekay]

Today I planted three new lillies called .... (i forget !!) Pink Dream I think. Then I dug a new bed to consolidate my purple Crape Myrtle and the bed of ditch lillies into one bed. Took out a biggggg clump of lillies, put them in a trug with some water and will divide and plant them, one on each side of the culvert tomorrow.

Then, after lunch I dug away the soil from my two tree stumps and planted, so far, two torch lillies ( Kniphofia )
And tomorrow I'll try to finish so there will be three in there.
I don know where the time goes !! Suddenly it was 4:30 pm !!

 

[big rockpile]

Fed and pruned my Tomatoes.

Pitched extra Geraniums.

Seen I have another baby Thanksgiving Cactus.

Once again someone left a plant I have no idea what it is.

Got some more Petunias coming up. Dang their small.

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[Sean Regan]

Cloudy and +4c. No good reason to go in the garden today other than to feed the birds.
There's a few things I'm planning to do once the weather improves.
I want to sort out the area under the acer palmatum that's in my avatar.
As you will see, it's a lot bigger than that now.



Consequently, the grass below it really struggles, due to the lack of light.
This was the best it looked last year. No amount of "shady place"grass seed grew.




It really looks bad at the moment.





I've a couple of choices, I could re-turf it (again) and shorten the skirt (again), but not by much. otherwise it will end up looking like a cocktail umbrella.

Or do what might be better, which is to make the brick circle of a much larger diameter.
The bricks are set in a fine concrete collar. I'll need a lot more bricks, but it's unlikely I'll be able to find the same ones again.
So I think I'll give the re-turf and shorten the skirt option a go first. But not for a couple of months.

In the meantime, I'll scout out a local reclamation yard to look for similar bricks.

On a positive note, the acer is producing its usual new growth. The restraining wire and net will remain on and be removed just before the foliage gets too big to pass through the net, by which time the branches should have set.





I hadn't intended to do anything today, but every Tuesday, I put out my next door neighbour's bins, as he's in hospital and will be for some time.
He has a gardener who comes once a month, but he doesn't seem to do much.
When I went round, I found a lot of garden refuse that needed clearing and I managed to fill two green bins with it. I don't know why this guy who does his garden, left it all.

A friend who lives the other side of this garden came round and told me he'd pruned off some branches earlier in the day of the tree that overhangs his garden. He said he intended to come round with his scaffold tower at the week-end to reduce the height of the top branches.
He's only got one tree that causes a problem, where I have three close to the fence on my side!
They are all silver birches and when the catkins and then leaves fall, they make unnecessary work for us both and anyway, they are way too tall for a suburban garden.
So at the week-end (weather permitting) we'll reduce the height of the one on his side and the three on my side.
They need reducing to the height they were cut down to only a few years ago. I've pruned them as far up as I can with my Fiskars telescopic lopper, but the tower is needed to get at the higher branches.