What's happening in your garden today?

[Anniekay]

What I did was more weeding, weeding, weeding !! Under the rose bushes I had a hard time !! If I wasn't getting rose bushed in the head it was my arms !! Got half the front rose garden finished, filled an 11 gallon trug full of weeds !!

 

[big rockpile]

We can't use tap water for the cacti Mr Pile so we've installed 1000 gallons worth of rainwater barrels now

I'll bet you have rain to put water in them.

big rockpile

 

[Tetters]

Finished digging up some of the currant bushes and replaced with new ones. 3 bushes for £11.99. the one is only 1 stick but it's good for the price. Going to put some crocuses and tulips in the autumn.
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Maybe I missed something here Logan, is there a reason you had to ditch the currants. Could you not have just pruned them back a bit?

 

[Zigs]

I'll bet you have rain to put water in them.

big rockpile

We do now, but last year we only had an inch and a half of rain all summer so it got a bit low. Any 2 liter soda bottles we have spare I fill with rainwater and keep under the decking in the greenhouse. It absorbs heat during the day and releases it at night so it evens the temperature out. Plus, if the barrels run dry we've got an emergency stash to water the cacti

 

[Logan]

Maybe I missed something here Logan, is there a reason you had to ditch the currants. Could you not have just pruned them back a bit?

No they were too old and dying, but i had a good reason to do some digging and buying more plants.

 

[Zigs]

No they were too old and dying, but i had a good reason to do some digging and buying more plants.

I was wondering if they had big bud mite Logan? Old currant bushes get it and usually need burning

 

[big rockpile]

We do now, but last year we only had an inch and a half of rain all summer so it got a bit low. Any 2 liter soda bottles we have spare I fill with rainwater and keep under the decking in the greenhouse. It absorbs heat during the day and releases it at night so it evens the temperature out. Plus, if the barrels run dry we've got an emergency stash to water the cacti

We have a problem 85% of the state is in a Drought but we're far worse.

Been watching Radar since we are elevated we will have a big area of rain coming for us. Thinking no way it will miss us.

Wrong it splits and goes around us.

We've only had few inches in three years.

Try to save some for my Worms.

big rockpile

 

[Tetters]

Rockers, I don't know whereabouts you are. If you fill in your profile, we would be able to see your location. You can even put in your Christian name if you feel like it. It's ok though, you don't need to say what you had for breakfast.
It seems awful not to have rain - even through the winter months.

 

[Logan]

I was wondering if they had big bud mite Logan? Old currant bushes get it and usually need burning

No I don't think so but i can't burn anything in my garden, it's too small and the neighbours wouldn't like it, but thanks Zigs.

 

[Zigs]

We have a problem 85% of the state is in a Drought but we're far worse.

Been watching Radar since we are elevated we will have a big area of rain coming for us. Thinking no way it will miss us.

Wrong it splits and goes around us.

We've only had few inches in three years.

Try to save some for my Worms.

big rockpile

We're on top of the North Downs Mr Pile, we can just see the coast. The rain comes towards us and then goes either side of us too

 

[Logan]

Hubby's been digging up some hardy geraniums, they self seed all over, i had to wash my hair.

 

[Zigs]

Hubby's been digging up some hardy geraniums, they self seed all over, i had to wash my hair.

Tell hubby he mustn't shake the geranium roots over your head when he digs them up Logan

 

[Zigs]

Tetters has been going at the Lavender hedge like a one woman cutting machine

 

[Anniekay]

Tetters has been going at the Lavender hedge like a one woman cutting machine

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What's that pretty pink flower, if you don't mind saying. ?

 

[Tetters]

What's that pretty pink flower, if you don't mind saying. ?

There's a purple leafed plum tree on each side of the opening in the fence. These are always the first trees to bloom here every year. I brought about a dozen of them home from work when I was there at the nursery. That was a few years ago now. They were absolutely buzzing with honey bees in the sunshine today. Early in the morning it was cloudy and I thought I might be out there in the rain, but then the sun came out and cheered me up a bit.

 

[Sean Regan]

I gave all the roses another spray of Sulphur Rose. I'll do this every two to three weeks from now, to hopefully reduce any chance of black spot infestation.
I'm ever the optimist!

I checked the clematis.

The bad news, is that it looks like five haven't survived the winter.

The good news, is that thirteen have!

Checked on the progress of the creeping phlox plug plants on the shed window sill.
They are doing very well. I have to remember to water them every other day as it gets quite hot in there.







No hedgehog activity, as of yet.

I'll have to spend some time in next door's garden tomorrow getting more of the branches of trees we've cut down into green bins.

 

[Tetters]

I gave all the roses another spray of Sulphur Rose. I'll do this every two to three weeks from now, to hopefully reduce any chance of black spot infestation.
I'm ever the optimist!

I checked the clematis.

The bad news, is that it looks like five haven't survived the winter.

The good news, is that thirteen have!

Checked on the progress of the creeping phlox plug plants on the shed window sill.
They are doing very well. I have to remember to water them every other day as it gets quite hot in there.


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No hedgehog activity, as of yet.

I'll have to spend some time in next door's garden tomorrow getting more of the branches of trees we've cut down into green bins.

Are you sure you've lost those Clematis? What time of the year do they bloom? In any event, a ''lost'' Clematis can miraculously reappear anything up to 20 years later so I've been informed (by a Clematis expert grower)

 

[Sean Regan]

Are you sure you've lost those Clematis? What time of the year do they bloom? In any event, a ''lost'' Clematis can miraculously reappear anything up to 20 years later so I've been informed (by a Clematis expert grower)

I read somewhere that they rarely die.
Some of ours are doing really well, others are just about showing, a few hidden by last year's dead growth which I pruned off. The suspect ones have "disappeared." I'll leave it a few weeks before deciding whether to replace them if they don't appear..

 

[Anniekay]

I have enough broccoli so I let my plants go to flower for the bees and I'll collect seed later.

 

[Zigs]

While Tetters has been laying waste to the Lavender hedge I've been cutting the Hazel hedge on the cornfield boundary



I made Tetters a tree house while I was doing it but she won't climb up into it



Cut these poles up for later use in the veg garden.



And the smaller twigs will go through the gruncher and end up as wood chip