What have you done today in the Garden?

Burr knots. Cheers.
It is not a good thing to have and I shall have to keep an eye on them.
This tree is the better of the two apple trees that I have. Oh dear me.
I appreciate learning the name from you.

 

Carried my little old dog out to wee and watched the snow falling and tires spinning or sliding on the slick hillside street. Bed or hot coco is the next question to answer as the dark heavily clouded morning progresses. Maybe coffee with coco and a warmed up muffin from the freezer?

 

I think they will be OK. They are not TOO big in the photo.

You could try to carefully cut them off with a good pruning saw. With time, the bark should over-grow the wound, as if you had removed a branch. It's all"could" and "should".

If it was my tree, I would just watch and do nothing else.

 

How about bed AND hot cocoa?

 

@Daniel W i am up and mobile for the moment
A mug of coffee/coco in hand.
Dogs are fed and garden stew open.

 

Daniel— good to hear your ideas on the burr. I would say that, wouldn’t I because I concur 100%.

 

Just did a bit of leaf collection and gave both of my jukeboxes a "run-out" of about an hour each.
As far as they are concerned, "use is the best form of preventative maintenance."

But I decided to give the "Rabbit Shed" a bit of a tart up.

We still call it this, as I built it fifty years ago for our eight-year-old daughter's expanding collection of rabbits and guinea pigs. I made a bank of cages on each side,
so we could separate the sexes, as we didn't want the numbers to increase.

It's made of reclaimed roofing ply and softwood.
I did replace the roofing felt ten years ago.

It's been my garden shed for forty years now.

There's benches either side and tools hang on the back wall.

Over years, the top layer of ply gets multiple cracks, so you have to work in the paint.
I used up most of the last of the paint I had.
I've a new can coming soon, for when I start on the rest I need to do. The two pergolas, the tea-house and five wooden troughs.


There's windows in the sides, from next door, when they had double glazing fitted, they are the wooden ones now hinged at the top . The back, is the end wall of the garage.
The roof is very strong, it easily takes my weight when I'm pruning next door's trees.




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There's hooks on either side to support a dartboard, although I rarely use it these days. The front window is plastic!





These are handy for small tools, nuts and bolts, screw etc.

I "recycled" them from my office when I retired.

 

I got more wood chips hauled to my raised beds. I lost count. I have 4 more beds to put the chips in. If there is more, they can go in the compost pile. I hope I can finish hauling those chips tomorrow or Wednesday because I want to start planting some of my other seeds. I think I can get away with hollyhock, mullein, yarrow, echinacea, and some of my other seeds. A good hot shower will help the achy muscles tonight.

It got into the 70s today, and was sunny. They are calling for more snow by next week.

I went through my grocery bag of zinnia, marigold, black eyed susans, cosmos, and echinacea seeds. I bagged up most of them in sandwich bags to share.

Daffodils, and lilies and irises have their little noses above ground.

It was too windy to burn safely, so the burning will wait.

 

Logan, sure hope you mend quickly and feel better. We all take this as a cautionary tale that we must take care at all times to prevent injuries.
My husband still has pain from a tumble he had last April.

 

No gardening today, it's a bit wet and I'd quite a few chores to do. Including "vacuuming everywhere." (Not that it needed it. My wife's physo was coming at 1.00 pm and you know what women are like, if there's visitors coming!)
But I did order eight creeping phlox plug plants on eBay to add to the rockery. I like this colour.




I'll pot them up and put them on the windowsill in the shed for the time being.

 

Not all burr knots are a bad thing . I made a plant stand from a huge burr knot leveled top and bottom , then placed a 3” sliced round from a redwood log on topped with a wreathe made from my grape vines to hide the planter saucer . It’s been a great stand for several plants for many years .

 

@Doghouse Riley , love those creeping phlox... I may look them up myself. I have tried growing them from seed, but no success so far. My regular phlox do great.

I hauled more of my wood chips this afternoon, and have one more bed to mulch. That bed will probably take 3 wheelbarrow loads, and the rest can go in my compost heap. My beds are almost ready for planting... I could put out potatoes this month, and maybe some carrots and beets.

I just ordered some bunching onion seeds on eBay, and there are 10K seeds for about $3. I might not need onion seeds again.... lol. It is Atlas brand. I won't plant them all this year.