What have you done today in the Garden?

I sprayed for fun guys and biting beetles and chewy worms and those little white flying angels and picked my first tomato! Then I went in because its humid heat! I did not need to watch bugs die!

My heat advisory has a heat advisory!

 

Nothing today it's raining

 

We're not expecting rain until this evening
Didn't do much.
Took down the last bit of our white quince on the fence, it's been dying a bit at a time over the last couple of years.





It's left this fence panel rather bare.



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But there's new bits coming up from the roots.




Tennis to watch this afternoon.

 

weeding weeding weeding

 

I'm sorry to hear of the high heat for some folks right now. Do take care.

Yesterday was a full day of weeding the onions in the onion race. It's really hard to tell if sets or seeds are in the lead. I guess the fall will tell, and how well they keep. The carrots were weeded and thinned. The bush beans were weeded. Everyone was dusted with diatomacious earth as the flea beatles are running amock. I dust...it rains. I dust....a heavy dew in the morning. Hopefully they calm down soon as the plants grow. I've never seen so many.

The last of the hilling that I can do on the leeks was completed and they are finally beginning to take off. Hubby mowed on the lawn tractor and collected, so the last of the pathways between plants in the vegetable garden were filled in. It is my weeding lifesaver and will pay off greatly this summer when I cannot be spending much time in there.

If I get time, I will harvest the lower rhubarb today. If not it will have to be Tuesday.

The Mare's Tail is in full swing and shooting up. If I cannot start on it's removal today it will also have to be Tuesday, so hopefully I get a chance at it today.

 

Doghouse Riley the hotter daze is the time to bring out the umbrellas to keep the maples from burning . They can scorch right thru to th bark…

 

Very true,

But mine are a bit beyond having an umbrella for protection, I'd need a couple tents.

 

After a few days dealing with honecrepair contractor, I'm back in garden.

Cultivated potato and Four O'clock areas.

Hand tilled another sweet corn bed to plant tomorrow.

Planted a strawberry pot with starts of sedum and sempervivum.

Installed willow pole posts and tied dwarf tomato plants to them.

Replanted rows of zinnia seeds to replace what slugs ate.

Installed more yellow jacket traps for fig trees.

Inspected pawpaws-


Also grapes and persimmons look good. No pie cherries or pears this year.

 

Spent about three hours in the garden today, despite the heat. Mowing strimmimg and clearing up with my garden vac.
Dead headed most of the last rhodo to flower, (the tall one) and pruned off the tops of the quinces on the fence either side. Keeping them controlled stops them causing too much shade for this bed




Gave this camelia a good prune.
I took at least six inches off it all the way round. It would "bully" the rhodos if not controlled. Of course this means we won't get many blooms on it next year. But we like it for the glossy leaves.





We don't mind having only a few blooms as when it was one of the three here in the centre bed seventeen years ago, they caused a mess..




So I dumped two, cut this one down to a couple of feet and replanted it behind the Japanese lantern "where I could keep an eye on it." Reducing the size of this centre bed opened up the garden.







The grass I brought on in my "icecream tub greenhouse" has taken here, in the worst position fo any grass to grow, in permanent shade.




Hard to see, but there are distinct tracks in the phlox on the rockery, made by 'arry our hedgehog when he's on patrol during the night. He must be like a small tank as he barges his way through it.

 

Today I cultivated, fertilized, watered, sprinkled slug bait, and re-covered the sweetcorn rows with deer and rabbit and bird screening. Then planted another three short rows with more short season sweetcorn.

I planted some cosmos seedlings.

I pulled a lot more Canadian Thistle. I wish it would go back to Canada, it's worn out its welcome here . Oh, it can take the Himalayan Blackberries and sticky weed and Johnson grass and goutweed with it

Tomorrow it's time to turn on the drip irrigation lines.

 

Gave water to everything. The toms, courgettes and cues, all goe some comfrey food. The toms needed. More leaf and sucker removal as well a tying-in as they continue to grow taller. The ox’s forehead toms are selling and are no so heavy they are causing the stems to bend double

 

From May 10th to June 18th we spread 14 loads of mulch, most of them being 4.5 cubic yards. Other years we spread from 100 to 150 cubic yards but most of the gardens are older and only need a thick top cover. So this year it figures out to be about 60 cubic yards. There will be an Egg Customer Appreciation Day "Garden Tour" at the end of July...We are ahead of schedule..Now we have just a little fine tuning to do..

 

Like Sjoerd, we watered--herbs and peppers. Also picked Celebrity and Roma tomatoes, and a few cherry tomatoes. We are in a heat wave, so all the plants need water. Tomatoes get drowned tomorrow, as well as the roses. The native plants can manage on their own. We don't want them to get the idea they can be babied!

 

Gardening will be limited the next few days
Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 76. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph.
Tonight:Showers likely, mainly after 8pm. Cloudy, with a low around 61. Southeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday:A chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 72. Southeast wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night:Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Thursday:A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am, then a chance of showers between 8am and 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Thursday Night:Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60.
Friday:Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.

 

Yesterday morning i started weeding a border that lines the driveway, got about half way. The afternoons have been too hot to do anything and today other things got in the way, so hopefully tomorrow morning I can finish it.