What's happening in your garden today?

[Anniekay]

I got all my tender plants covered up. I used up all my cardboard boxes, (which I save to help kill off grasses for a new garden bed) and weighted them down with a brick. It never got up to 50°f, 48 but felt much colder with that north wind blowing !! We'll see if all survives tomorrow. They now predict 27°f for the low tonight. Hoping it won't get that cold since my nectarine has a few flowers open and I was hoping for fruit this year .

 

[Logan]

Hubby's been clearing the ivy that has grown through the hellebores and stinging nettles, i had to wash my hair.
But it's very windy but mild.

 

[Anniekay]

Hubby's been clearing the ivy that has grown through the hellebores and stinging nettles, i had to wash my hair.
But it's very windy but mild.

Then your hair will dry really fast !!

 

[Anniekay]

Removed all these boxes this morning.



Then, I found I made a boo-boo.
When I uncovered one of my Pepper plants, I found that I had planted it over top of a potato !! Not too bright of me but then, the pepper will probably not interfere and I will just leave that potato plant until after the pepper crop and hopefully, all will be well ?? I really don't know !!

 

[Logan]

Looking good @Anniekay

 

[Anniekay]

Looking good @Anniekay

Thanks @Logan

After removing all those boxes (they're still sitting outside up against the house for now) I went to buy milk and what did I see? A big sign in front of the Tractor Supply store, or TSC as we call it. Brown mulch $2.00 a bag !!

I put my brakes on, snuggled the car up to the pile and bought myself 12 bags. Once home I got my two garden beds that parallel the front walk, all weeded, fertilized the two climbers that are on each side of the arbor that spans the walk, fertilized the rest of the plants in there and gave each bed two bags of mulch.
Now I need a rest !! It was wall-to-wall weeds in there !!

 

[Sheal]

$2 a bag is a good price Annie! What was the size or weight of the bags?

 

[Anniekay]

$2 a bag is a good price Annie! What was the size or weight of the bags?

2 cubic feet. They have a color guarantee for one year and since this was last year's stock, they reduced it. Doesn't bother me about the color fading as that's not the point. I don't really buy it for the color. I always get brown mulch not red or black, because it gives the impression of just being dirt. I buy it because it keeps weeds down and improves the soil. People seem to like red and black over brown, so brown (my color !!) that's the color that get's the discount.

When it's not on sale it's $3.59 - $3.99 a bag.

 

[Sheal]

Thanks for the information Annie. I've never bought mulch and didn't realise it was available in different colours. What I've seen here has always been brown, so perhaps someone else can confirm that for me.

 

[Sean Regan]

Did quite a bit today.
Gave my garage a good tidy and chucked out any stuff I thought I might never need.
This still left quite a bit!
I keep a lot of bits and pieces in these thick walled polystyrene boxes, which are used when on-line suppliers send the frozen food we've occasionally ordered over many years.




Then I sorted out the "cupboards" under my bench. They are really an old sideboard which I recycled when we bought a new one. Then vacced everywhere.




By lunchtime it had warmed up and was bright and sunny.
So I got my lawn scarifier out and did both lawns, using the highest setting. I collected a lot of thatch and dead moss, without ripping out the grass.

I then mowed both lawns and gave them a feed and chucked some grass seed about. If the weather stays mild, I expect to see an improvement over the next two weeks.
Watered the rose pots and sprayed them with Sulphur Rose, which is supposed to stop black spot, but doesn't.








Although there's been no hedgehog activity, it can't be long now, so I put out the second feeding station. I did put a brick on the roof.

 

[big rockpile]

Watered stuff in the Greenhouse.

Tied up and fed my Tomatoes.

Fed my Worms.

big rockpile

 

[blenor 2]

It's in my dreams to get the garage that sorted! A worthwhile project indeed!

 

[Sean Regan]

Today was the day, I and a neighbour two doors away were going to tackle the silver birch trees in the garden between ours. The owner is in hospital, long term.


We want to bring them down to the height they were when they were last pollarded, removing the branches that overhang our gardens. Each year we have to contend with the catkins and later the falling leaves. Such trees are unsuitable for small suburban gardens.

Here. I'd just collected a lot of the leaves. The conifer, behind the "offending" trees, is in the garden next door to the garden behind ours and doesn't block out any light.




He has a scaffold tower, I have a heavy duty Fiskars telescopic pruner. So we're well prepared.





These are just the ones, "my side" there's three but, one died a couple of years ago.
You can just see the other tree, even taller, on the other side of the garden.





But it's raining!
So we'll have to choose another day.

 

[Sean Regan]

It's in my dreams to get the garage that sorted! A worthwhile project indeed!

My garage, can stand being a bit untidy.

Not so my shed, which I originally built in 1976, to house cages for our eight-year-old daughter's numerous rabbits and guinea pigs.

Here with my two telescopic pruners, which have to hang from brackets in the roof space.
The fabric is still water-tight (lots of coats of paint over the years). Though I did change the roofing felt ten years ago.



There's not a spare inch anywhere.
You can just see the "mini consumer unit," top-right, on the wall behind the fluorescent, I installed for the shed and tea-house.






All the electrics I put in white plastic trunking.







Even the door has its occasional uses!

 

[Logan]

Yesterday cut out the old loganberry canes and tied in the new. Today i cut out some of the old blackberry canes but still got to tie in the new, thought that the old blackberry canes would be good for supports for other plants when they have dried out.

 

[Anniekay]

I dug in some good compost into one of my vacant raised beds and planted about 75 onion sets in there around the edges. It took two rows around to get them in. The rest of the bag, which had 100 bulbs in it in all, I planted hither and yon, (the really small ones that I didn't put in the raised bed) some around a rose and the rest wherever I didn't think I had anything else planted.

Then I made a cup of mocha coffee, set it on the table on my back porch and hung out a load of whites on the line. When I returned, ...
Empty cup of coffee !!
Rags drank the whole cup !!
Horrible little dog !!

 

[Anniekay]

Guilty face, stomach full of mocha coffee :

 

[Anniekay]

I got hungry for carrots for supper and had none in the fridge so I went out and checked the ones in the garden. I'm very happy that they hadn't forked !!

But one has Peyronies disease !!

 

[Tetters]

It's in my dreams to get the garage that sorted! A worthwhile project indeed!

That's a really big job - think I'll leave it to Zigs. I have enough trouble sorting out the kitchen cupboards even though it's a bit warmer inside

 

[Logan]

Pricked out some of the polyanthus and Erigeron seedlings, hubby went out to buy me some more compost and some cell trays. The trays are made out of recycled plastic milk cartons.