What have you done today in the Garden?

I'll keep the Chilli plants in the conservatory and the fruit I'll put in the freezer and use them with fried red onions, put a bit of that on the dinner.

The verbena bonerenses will go somewhere in the front garden, but haven't decided yet.

 

Today, I repotted chillies and courgettes as well as tomatoes. I transplanted a few white salad onions too.

 

Been dealing with a pulled leg muscle so been taking it easy did manage to plant my goldrush and purple viking potatoes Sunday.

 

Rain...rain.. rain. Nada in the garden. Hubbie & I have been de-cluttering. There's a website that covers our town where you can post various things... Announcements, stuff for free, for sale, etc. I've been posting things on that & getting quite a few takers. A woman thrilled with a camp style sleeping bag for her son, a man pleased with a fun colorful hammock for his daughter, etc. So satisfying.

Sj, I'm not surprised that after your recent dance with that canal you are a little leery of getting close and personal with it again! Glad you have the proper tools for the canal clearing. If this canal were to run by a person's house, would he also be responsible for clearing it? Is it like homeowners are responsible for shoveling their own section of sidewalk in the winter? Is that how it works?

At our Community Garden, each gardener is responsible for a section of fence, keeping it clear of weeds & properly mowed.

 

Yes Cayu, that is exactly right. It also goes for homeowners and also for businesses. The canals are of national importance and must be kept open to remove the water from the lowest areas up higher and eventually out to sea.

So then for clarity: we are responsible for the canal edges on our side of the canal and the railroad owns the land on the other side, so they are responsible for their side of the water. All canals have two sides, so the responsibility lies with who owns the land which edges the canals. I am talking about drainage canals here, not the gigantic shipping canals. Naturally if a canal runs right through the middle of a person’s land then he is responsible for both sides.

 

Oh dear I hope that you are better soon.

 

Well this morning before work I transplanted onions. I have about 1 million plans what I will do next when I go to the veg garden. Not enough time in the day. My work was transporting and stacking firewood. My route to work passes through an organic cow farm. They have donkeys too. I often stop and collect the fertiliser that they leave for me. Today however I collected half decomposed woodchips from my work. I am spoiled for choice. The donkeys are Catalan donkeys. They are tall for donkeys and rather good looking too. Spring is now fully underway. We may have frost in about a week and then it is full speed ahead.

 

Odif, you must be exhausted by the end of your day--all that work and you seem to enjoy it! Good on you.
Those donkeys are adorable. When we moved to the farm I wanted to get two mules, but my husband trampled that little idea! I wonder how he'd feel if I imported two donkeys . . . .

 

Those are indeed beauties Odif.

Re the onions, wow your poor back! Tough work.

 

I am 53 Iam strong my back is fine. I will crouch down or go on my hands and knees. I have never felt stronger. I put my back out at 21 and couldn’t walk for a week. I have had my back or knee or shoulder problems over the years, but having developed strategies by knowing my body I am lucky to be in fine form now.

 

Started to get the toilet roll tubes ready to sow the wallflower seeds in, 300 so far.

 

Hmm..

Don't leave it too late to buy a Ferrari.

 

What a hard-working bloke you are Odif. I hope that frost does not come. Do you expect to grow enough to sell again this year?

Today we cleaned all the veggie quadrants.




These onions were loaded with two and four leaved weedlets. Now? They gone.


You can tell how slowly the things are growing here by how small they remain.from right to left—broad-beans, Swiss chard, spinach and finally next to the grass path, two rows of beetroot.
In the next quadrant, onions and strawbs.


Finally, the apple buds I showed two days ago—they have opened...but not many bees are flying.


Loggie, you could grow wallflowers for Britain !

 

Not a lot.
Mowed the back lawn then used the vac to get what catkins from next door's trees were left.

There's more fallen since!





Sometimes grass seed you spread refuses to grow. So for patching very small areas, I put some in with a soil and compost mix in an ice cream tub and some water, shut the lid and put it on the windowsill of the shed. A week later I've got this.





I'll let it "grow on," then use it for patching.

I played 24 "B sides" on one of my jukeboxes whilst I was in the garden. It's a "necessary" maintenance exercise now and again so that part of the mechanism that selects them, gets some use.
A week-end job will be taking the records out of the carousel and cleaning them. This needs doing at least once a year as with all that electricity about the static makes them collects dust.
I need to order a new stylus cleaning brush for them both. The stylus passes over them to and from the record. But mine are the originals and aren't very effective now.

Just did a tour of "inspection." As well as our little Acer palmatum Taylor suffering from the frost so did the buds on our smallest wistera, first time this has happened. There are a few buds which will flower.




Same with our Stella cherry, I won't bother to put a net over it this year as there will be only a few cherries.

But some old favourites never let you down. This is the first rhodo to flower. The lawns still a mess in a few places. Hard for it to grow under overhanging foliage.




Both the established acer palmatums are in full leaf.








I need to get some grey paint on the way home from golf tomorrow, to "tart up" the pagoda roofs. It's looking a bit "abandoned."




Using the word "abandoned" reminded me of this.

 

@Sjoerd I definitely will. I have a few regular clients. The two local stores in my village also will take veggies.