What's happening in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

Either side of some shopping and attending to the laundry (and watching a bit of tennis and track cycling on TV) I did quite a bit in the gardens.
I collected "a green bin-full" of leaves that have fallen off the big acer in the garden. A lot more yet to come down. Then it will get it's annual prune.




I don't have to poke around under the azaleas to get at them, I can blow them to the back with my Grizzly garden vac. and then just sweep them up.
I keep clear this part of the garden next to the fence I errected forty years ago which separates our garden from next door. Other houses have low post and panel fences, but I wanted something that doesn't notice as much.



The leaves on the acer palmatums in the back garden are beginning to turn their "firey red" as they do every year. How red they will get depends on whether the frost holds off for a week or so.





I gave the "bamboo forest" a bit of a trim. There was quite a bit of foliage drooping over.

 

[Tetters]

Either side of some shopping and attending to the laundry (and watching a bit of tennis and track cycling on TV) I did quite a bit in the gardens.
I collected "a green bin-full" of leaves that have fallen off the big acer in the garden. A lot more yet to come down. Then it will get it's annual prune.

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I don't have to poke around under the azaleas to get at them, I can blow them to the back with my Grizzly garden vac. and then just sweep them up.
I keep clear this part of the garden next to the fence I errected forty years ago which separates our garden from next door. Other houses have low post and panel fences, but I wanted something that doesn't notice as much.

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The leaves on the acer palmatums in the back garden are beginning to turn their "firey red" as they do every year. How red they will get depends on whether the frost holds off for a week or so.

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I gave the "bamboo forest" a bit of a trim. There was quite a bit of foliage drooping over.

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If you save all those leaves and bag them, they would make some lovely leaf mould which would be an asset to the plants

 

[Sean Regan]

If you save all those leaves and bag them, they would make some lovely leaf mould which would be an asset to the plants

That's an idea, but I have one that needs less effort.
I don't give the front garden any special feed. It's hard enough keeping everything under control, I don't need extra growth.
With the back garden, the main border slopes towards the lawn. I do collect a lot of leaves, but then blow what's left to the back and let them rot down.

 

[Anniekay]

I don't have pictures because all you'd see is dirt !!
I dug in some compost and bloodmeal into two more raised beds, then put in Mache seeds, Chinese celery seed ( trying that for the first time), a few french icicle radish seeds a patch of spinach seed , and three cabbages.

Then watered them and covered the seed beds with some large cardboard box pieces set up on bricks with another brick on top of the cardboard over the lower brick to keep the cardboard in place. Otherwise my seedbeds dry out too fast from the sun. I'll check them every few days to see what's germinated.

 

[Sean Regan]

Too wet to do anything in the garden today, I'll just watch the acers go a progressively deeper red.

 

[Logan]

Nothing today it's been raining all the morning and the afternoon i had to wash my hair.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Mainly worked on tools, setting up the new wheelbarrow and putting a worm gear on the cement mixer. I have hopes to finish some pathway and post projects in the garden as our rainy season starts 4th week of November. I would love to finish the cornerstones for a patch of raised beds I hope will magically appear before spring planting. I want permanent concrete corners with grooves to hold replaceable wood sides.

 

[Sean Regan]

Not a lot to do in the back garden today.
The leaves on this acer are starting to shrivel and fall.

This one is still holding on.

The leaves on this wisteria are beginning to turn. I'll give it a week or so and then strip them.

The others will be later.

Cleared a second lot of fallen leaves from the big acer in the front garden. In a couple of weeks, I'll be able to see where to start pruning to reduce the canopy by six inches or more all round. I do this every year.

 

[Logan]

Did some more weeding in another border and dug up a lot of hardy geraniums that seed all over.

 

[Anniekay]

I got nine daylillies transplanted to the bed outside the front of my house, finally, and got new mulch spread. I also planted a few short rows of buttercrunch lettuce in my raised bed and uncovered a short row of french icicle radishes that just came up this morning.

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing this morning as I had chores and shopping to do.

But this afternoon I decided to get into the big acer in the front garden and give it its annual haircut. I chose now, as it will have time to recover before the frosts. They tend to bleed a bit but it'll be OK.
It may need a bit more work, just a tiny bit of evening up . But I'll do that over the week-end. It looks a bit lopsided but it isn't I photographed it at an angle.

It doesn't look that much different from the previous photo, but I took up to a foot off it all the way round. What came off filled the green bin, which was only emptied yesterday.

As a job, it's a chore. I use my Barnel telescopic pruner for thinner branches and a Fiskas extending tree lopper for thicker ones.
It gets uncomfortable after an hour as you are constantly craning your neck looking up and the tools get heavy.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Just parking this here so I can find it later...

Don't Let the Cold Stop You from Gardening—22 Garden Ideas That Thrive in Winter

From soil improvement to crafts, these winter garden ideas will keep you busy until spring and make your garden better.

www.thespruce.com

 

[Meadowlark]

Yep, I do each of those and more. The one huge, glaring omission was failure to include cover crops. That omission pretty much shows me the Spruce is seriously lacking.

Just parking this here so I can find it later...

Don't Let the Cold Stop You from Gardening—22 Garden Ideas That Thrive in Winter

From soil improvement to crafts, these winter garden ideas will keep you busy until spring and make your garden better.

www.thespruce.com

 

[Logan]

Not much today i just got my grow house ready for winter by taking all of the seed trays out that i just threw in at the time. Put the fuchsias and tender geraniums in there for the winter, it's going to get colder next week.

 

[Meadowlark]

..., it's going to get colder next week.

Send some of that cool air this way...it would be much appreciated

 

[Sean Regan]

Just a few jobs today.
I got into this wisteria.

It'll get another, more drastic prune between Christmas and New Year. The "ideal time," was always considered to be in January or February.
There's global warming for you.

Many of the heads need attention. Too many branches. I have to remove some every year.

The lawn needs a mow. If it's dry, I'll do it tomorrow afternoon.

Did a bit more pruning of the big acer in the front garden. Particularly the top. Hard to get a perspective from under it. But I knew what to prune before I started by looking out of the bedroom window.
Ideally, I should take my pruner up with me and use it through an open bedroom window, but, "that wouldn't be allowed."

 

[Jersey Devil]

Either side of some shopping and attending to the laundry (and watching a bit of tennis and track cycling on TV) I did quite a bit in the gardens.
I collected "a green bin-full" of leaves that have fallen off the big acer in the garden. A lot more yet to come down. Then it will get it's annual prune.

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I don't have to poke around under the azaleas to get at them, I can blow them to the back with my Grizzly garden vac. and then just sweep them up.
I keep clear this part of the garden next to the fence I errected forty years ago which separates our garden from next door. Other houses have low post and panel fences, but I wanted something that doesn't notice as much.

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The leaves on the acer palmatums in the back garden are beginning to turn their "firey red" as they do every year. How red they will get depends on whether the frost holds off for a week or so.

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I gave the "bamboo forest" a bit of a trim. There was quite a bit of foliage drooping over.

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Love that Acer

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Just a few jobs today.
I got into this wisteria.

It'll get another, more drastic prune between Christmas and New Year. The "ideal time," was always considered to be in January or February.
There's global warming for you.

Many of the heads need attention. Too many branches. I have to remove some every year.

The lawn needs a mow. If it's dry, I'll do it tomorrow afternoon.

Did a bit more pruning of the big acer in the front garden. Particularly the top. Hard to get a perspective from under it. But I knew what to prune before I started by looking out of the bedroom window.
Ideally, I should take my pruner up with me and use it through an open bedroom window, but, "that wouldn't be allowed."

Some of those plants like sun. Does that area get more sun than in the photos? Very tranquil looking area after my own heart.

 

[Logan]

Yesterday went to see my friends and today not sure what I'll be doing.

 

[Sean Regan]

Some of those plants like sun. Does that area get more sun than in the photos? Very tranquil looking area after my own heart.

That side of the garden gets quite a bit of sun all day as the garden is south facing. It got less in the late afternoon as it was in the shadow of a big tree at the bottom of the garden of the house next door and later the tea house.

You can see how big was this tree in this photo.



But next year things will be better as the tree has been taken down since I took this photo.

It's the edge of the lawn next to the left-hand bed that suffers from the lack of sun as it's in the shadow of the fence all day. It tends to get patches of moss. I gave the whole edge of the lawn a dose of iron sulphate today. The wisterias on the two pergolas get plenty of sun.

With the tree gone the back of the garden will get more sun. There are trees in the two gardens behind ours, but they have no effect.



Despite the grass being quite wet, I mowed the lawn with my Flymo Ultraglide. It has a big fan at the back that picks up "anything."
I must have had it ten years. It stopped working last year, but when I checked it out, it was only the on/off switch that had failed. I got a replacement on eBay for a fiver.



This is part of my moss problem. There's some dead moss there from a previous dose of iron sulphate. It needs scarifying, but I need three dry days to attempt to do this.




I might take the jet wash to the moss on the brick paver border in the week.