What have you done today in the Garden?

You just inspired me to buy a powered secateurs. There is still pruning to do. Thanks for the idea.

 

Daniel…Great to know you are joining the ‘Joint Savors Group… I had 3 hip joint replacements and don’t ever intend to go for any other joint replacements. Saving joints is important. Good for you.

I like my battery op light weight tools they cut the work load on joints in half. They are also a time saving tools and the cost has come down a great deal since they first began designing light weight tools.

 

Today has been too cool to take most seedlings outdoors. They remain in sunroom under LEDS.



I thinned tomato seedlings to one per cell.


And rearranged some of the dwarf dahlia seedlings to one per cell.

 

Looks like you have a lot of new plantings. Great job. Lots of nice seedlings. It’s always a great feeling to see them doing so well.

 

Today is my "day off"...

 

That's always a good thing

 

What's "a day off?"

My brain always finds me something "that needs doing."

 

Very strong winds last night plus a lot of rain. Had a check round this morning. Fortunately, no fence panel damage. This can happen if what some people grow along their fences and attach it to the panels, rather than the concrete posts. The wind can catch bushy foliage and that can drag the panel out of its slots in the posts.

The "bamboo forest" has several support wires strung between the end posts.
A couple of wires had come adrift but were easy to fix.





The wind was a reminder for me to sort out the roses' pot movers. Once the foliage gets a bit thicker, the wind can blow the pots over. If this happens they are sure to crack and they are forty quid a pop now. So I'll remove the castors, which will make them more stable. They slide easy enough without them. I like them as they will hold a little water in the really hot weather.

The white ones I sprayed green need doing again.

 

@Doghouse Riley

There is ALWAYS more work to do. However, I believe in the 7th day Sabbath of the Bible and God forbids work on that day as He made it holy. So, it is my "day off", and I do whatever work some other day.

Work seems to be like bunnies. The more work you do, the more there is. Or so it seems.

 

Weeding, and restaking some of the shrubs that have being battered by Kathleen. The wind has given me a thumping headache and earache...the only good thing is the sunshine.

 

I actually took off the castors this afternoon, some needed a mole wrench to get the pins out. They are now all in a box and I've cleaned and replaced the movers, except the six that need repainting. They are drying off in the garage.
I'm now watching the football on TV and later the Charleston Open tennis women's final.

 

Planted carrots and potato's today. Actually my daughter dropped the potato seeds this year - a teaching moment for me.

 

@AAnightowl I hope your day of rest is fulfulling.

@Oreti I hope your headache improves quickly.

@Doghouse Riley you always inspire with your projects.

@Clay_22 I learned gardening at my parents sides too. It was the formation of a lifetime of benefit in every way.

I didn't really do anything in the garden today. Just took the plantmobile outside, inspected, watered with the usual low dose houseplant food.

Oh, that Poinsettia that I kept last year - still blooming! Also some of the Schlumbergeras.

 

Yesterday was a big day of removing all of the soil from one bed in the greenhouse. It's about 22 feet long and two and a half feet wide. It was contaminated with herbicide form purchased compost a few years ago, and only certain things could grow in it. I'm redoing that bed for tomatoes.

After after a few wheel barrow loads, I thought smarter and went and got the tractor out of the barn. The bucket holds 2-3 wheel barrow loads, so it made for much easier back work to move the dirt to the storage area.

Today I set up saw horses and plywood tables in the greenhouse, so that the voles can't get my plants this year. ( your trick Sjoerd that I learned when you were putting out plants and had to prevent rodent damage). I had so much heartbreaking destruction last year. Now everyone is hanging out in there for the day. ( except the Rhodochiton and peppers). I'm going to drive the pickup down and bring everything up to the house in the box of the truck, rather than make 10 trips up the hill carrying a flat at a time.

I covered an area of the upper garden with clear plastic to help warm the soil for spinach sowing.

We are expecting snow tonight and into tomorrow morning, and with the ground still frozen in most areas I'm not sure how long it will last in my shady location. I plan to shovel it off of my plastic to help out the dirt. .

I sowed seven different poppies in starter pots yesterday, and today I sowed some dwarf nasturtiums and bachelor buttons.

Some of the strawberries are showing inklings of life - so fingers crossed.

My neighbour gave me a Jostaberry bush that she couldn't get to do anything. It's a root with two little sprouts coming off. I'm not a huge fan of current and gooseberry flavour, but my daughter is. I put it in a pot, and we will see what it does.

 

Mel sounds like you have a really nice greenhouse and filled with fresh soil and all set to fill it up with new plantings.