What's happening in your garden today?

[Anniekay]

Planted some little Daisy Seed.

Figured out most flower seed is to be surface planted.

Well thought I had buch rain water but found it had frozen and broke my buckets. So run my barrel full of tap water.

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If your bucket is plastic, that cheap plastic, they will crack when the water expands from freezing. One of my trugs split this winter and it was a cheap plastic, so I bought better ones from Gardeners Supply to replace it. My Gardeners Supply trug survived freezing .

 

[Logan]

Replacing 3 old redcurrant bushes with new ones. Just cut the old ones down and started digging them up.

 

[Jersey Devil]

I didn't like them enough to keep growing them.

I'm surprissed you don't care for them. I got bulbs from Tulip World, they grew to be two feet high in no time and looked exactly like roses. The bulbs were big. Although I did have trouble keeping them going late in the season. Just one bulb in a medium size pot looks awesome.

 

[Anniekay]

I'm surprissed you don't care for them. I got bulbs from Tulip World, they grew to be two feet high in no time and looked exactly like roses. The bulbs were big. Although I did have trouble keeping them going late in the season. Just one bulb in a medium size pot looks awesome. View attachment 3156

If I lived in Jersey or at least as far north as N. Carolina, I would like them better. It's too hot here for them and I have enough pots to worry about that I really don't need them, but they are pretty.

 

[Anniekay]

So far today I got 4 trays of plants outside hardening off. I trimmed my 8 hedges in the front foundation planting. The sun got too hot for me to finish with weeding and fertilizing those two beds. I can do that tomorrow.

So, I set off to the west side of my potting shed (in the shade) where I have one of my thornless blackberry beds. Three blackberry plants made their way under the Gardenia and out to the front of the bed. First one I yanked on broke and I ended up on my backside in the grass !!

After I got them out, (huge sets of roots on them,) I cut them back to two buds and stuck them in a trug with water in the shade. Then I weeded that bed, fertilized the blackberries, fertilized the big Gardenia on the end of the bed and got a couple bags of mulch on there before I totally pooped out !! I need to put three more bags of mulch on that bed and I'll be done with it.

Oh, and I cursed a blue streak when I saw that a dang tree rat, known to most as a Squirrel, had dug up one of my plants !!

 

[big rockpile]

If your bucket is plastic, that cheap plastic, they will crack when the water expands from freezing. One of my trugs split this winter and it was a cheap plastic, so I bought better ones from Gardeners Supply to replace it. My Gardeners Supply trug survived freezing .

I should have put them up. I was putting them under an eve that didn't have guttering and should have known what would happen.

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[Anniekay]

All I've done so far is water the bedding plants that I put in last week and water and weed my raised beds. It's so much easier weeding with a spray of water to loosen up the roots of the weeds. Then I put out a whole wheelbarrow full of seedy weeds that will ruin my compost. Then the City came and picked them up with some other excess tree fall I had in the yard. They always come by my house at the last day of the month.

Later this afternoon I'll be puttering around outside and do some more stuff. I have plenty left to do !!

 

[Zigs]

Tetters got me an exterior wood burner a few days ago @Euphorbia king




It was painted blue till I started using it, don't tell her

 

[Anniekay]

Tetters got me an exterior wood burner a few days ago @Euphorbia king


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It was painted blue till I started using it, don't tell her

You need to shoot some holes in it for air to get to the wood. A shot gun at 3 paces does a good job .

 

[Zigs]

You need to shoot some holes in it for air to get to the wood. A shot gun at 3 paces does a good job .

I drilled 2 holes until the hole saw went blunt

I could give this to Tetters and then hide behind it

 

[Anniekay]

I drilled 2 holes until the hole saw went blunt

I could give this to Tetters and then hide behind it

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You mean: "Run and hide !!"

 

[big rockpile]

Watered everything in the Greenhouse. Sifted some Compost.

Someone that seems to get some soil from yours truly when I'm gone. Said they had some pots to empty. I said fine dump them in the first bin.

Well I have 3 Bins the first one has just started breaking down, the last one is ready. I was sifting found he had dumped them in that bin. Just mix it in it wasn't that much.

Anyway I mixed a butch of soil.

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[Logan]

Dug up 3 currant bushes, it was hard going and got 2 more to do.

 

[Sean Regan]

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It started off a bit frosty first thing, but it soon warmed up, so this afternoon I tackled the lawn brick edging, with my jet-wash.​

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It's still in pretty good condition considering I laid the bricks over fifteen years ago.​

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The lawn will tale a few weeks to recover from its recent scarifying.​

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I also jet-washed the small patio and path. This will need some re-pointing "on a dry warmer day."​

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I've not yet given up with the missing grass under this acer. A bit later, I'll invest in a couple of rolls of turf. It will have a couple of things going for it this year. I'm going to "shorten the hem" of the acer and the huge tree in the garden to the left which kept this area in constant shade, has had all its branches cut off and there's just the trunk remaining, which I anticipate will be removed soon.​

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[Tetters]

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It started off a bit frosty first thing, but it soon warmed up, so this afternoon I tackled the lawn brick edging, with my jet-wash.​

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It's still in pretty good condition considering I laid the bricks over fifteen years ago.​

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I also jet-washed the small patio and path. This will need some re-pointing "on a dry warmer day."​

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I've not yet given up with the missing grass under this acer. A bit later, I'll invest in a couple of rolls of turf. It will have a couple of things going for it this year. I'm going to "shorten the hem" of the acer and the huge tree in the garden to the left which kept this area in constant shade, has had all its branches cut off and there's just the trunk remaining, which I anticipate will be removed soon.​

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Surely it would be easier and more cost effective to throw a little seed down there as the warmer weather comes in (hopefully very soon) I have always found on the camping site that bare patches very quickly recover without any assistance at all, and just needs a little careful mowing as it replenishes itself.

 

[big rockpile]

Planted Petunia Seed and Repotted couple Spider Plants.

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[Sean Regan]

Surely it would be easier and more cost effective to throw a little seed down there as the warmer weather comes in (hopefully very soon) I have always found on the camping site that bare patches very quickly recover without any assistance at all, and just needs a little careful mowing as it replenishes itself.

In the past couple of years, it's been the increasing lack of light that kills any new growth from seed.

 

[Logan]

Dug up another 2 currant bushes, not sure about the last one, it's very big and hard to get at the roots to cut them.
Just received the new ones so I'll have to heal them in or put in a big container.

 

[Anniekay]

I forgot to post what I did yesterday, yesterday, so I'll post it now. I dug out a big patch of wild onions from my South border. I like them for both taste and asthetics, they're attractive to me when in flower, but... My Beautyberry bush has been encroached by them and didn't really make many berries last year and it may be due to the onion between it's toes, so, out they came.

Then I dug in some new compost into that bed. I got only half of it weeded, (it's about 65' long all together) and then planted out a bunch of foxgloves around in what I hope appears as a natural formation.

Today I hope to get more plants set out into the borders, but I always do whatever I feel like doing first, so, who knows what I might do.

 

[Sean Regan]

Busy afternoon.
My neighbour and I got into the silver birch trees in the garden between ours, (that neighbour is a long term, hospital patient). After tackling the one that overhangs his garden, we then pollarded the three next to mine. We needed a scaffold, a chainsaw and my extending pruner
A drastic reduction in the height




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They look "dog rough" at the moment and there's still some "wispy bits," my side, that I can remove with my telescopic pruner. But once the leaves appear, they will look acceptable.

There's still a lot of cut down branches to clear (almost as much behind the camera) and we've already nearly filled two green bins, but mine's still empty.
There were quite a few very large dead shrubs that needed the chainsaw to cut down.

It'll probably take another two bin collections, at least, before we can get the garden clear. But we're going to leave the garden tidy.
On the right is a garage, with a pergola on the side, which has been completely overgrown, (we aren't going to attempt to tackle that!). I have to occasionally trim off what tries to get onto my garage roof!





As I don't have to work for a living, I'll spend some time tomorrow with my secateurs, reducing the smaller branches so they'll fit in a green bin. l can get a lot more in that way. The thicker branches will need my friend's chainsaw, (and that needs a new blade!) So that will have to wait until later in the week.
But by Thursday we'll have three empty bins again. So a lot more can be done.