What have you done today in the Garden?

Started building a turf wall along my line of string today

 

Where is all that turf coming from and what do you do with a turf wall? I've never heard of such a thing .

 

I'm increasing the size of the veg plot by stripping all the turf around it

We've got an evil North wind cutting across the fields (We can just see the North Sea on the horizon and there's nothing inbetween that and the Polar Ice cap ) A turf wall seemed the best bet to try to cut the wind out and create a microclimate to give the veg a chance.

I've been used to growing veg in the West Country, a mile from the South Coast, where all I had to worry about was a bit of salt spray after a storm. Here it's a bit like trying to grow things with the freezer door open

 

whats it for, illegal aliens

 

We've decided that the World has gone mad, so we're building an asylum to put it in. We'll be living outside of the enclosure

 

Those were tiny mininroses. Some bloom indoors during the winter. One did really nice. I'll leave the rest outdoors from now on.

 

I moved the rest of the container geraniums outdoors. I did that last week with a few, but brought them inside for some near-freezing weather. They already started growing. It's nice now, so I moved them outside again. I cleaned up the rest, pruned to make them bushy, removed dead growth and dead leaves. Watered with diluted balanced fertilizer.



More. The little ones were seedlings, but I ran out of room in the sunroom. So I let them go dormant until now. The big gnarled on on the left has been overwintered for 20 winters.



These were in the sunroom over the winter, so never went completely dormant. Some were cuttings last year. I grew the red one from seed last winter.



I did the same with the container Mandevillas. I keep them pruned and avoid high nitrogen so they'll be bushy instead of vines..



As long as the weather is nice, I think they'll grow fine.

 

I moistened the peat moss for the mini dahlia tubers that were stored overwinter in the garage. I hope they grow.

 

Looks beautifully peaceful and lovely @Pacnorwest .