What have you done today in the Garden?

Just moving plants around to harden off. Got 8 lupins in the greenhouse moved them on the patio and put 8 verbena bonerenses in their place. Also got tomatoes in there so I'm leaving the door open over night now.

 

Your welcome.

It's important to add a plasticiser to the mix, this will resist the chance of the frost cracking it again.

I'll do an update on this tomorrow.
It was a golf day today and I resisted "tarting it up" this afternoon to give the cement another day to finish curing.

 

I finally got the strawberry jar planted! It's been so rainy and dismal that I put that pleasure off. Now it has trailing herbs--mint, marjoram, thyme, and one basil on top.
I also checked the seasonal garden and picked lettuce. We have seven broccoli heads, at different stages of maturing (thank heavens, because I really don't want seven heads all at once!). The sugar snap peas are blossoming, and the bell peppers are setting buds. It's beginning to sprinkle again, so I think my gardening is done for the day.

 

It's been rainy lately, so havent got much done besides a bit of weeding. Tons of weeds!

 

@TheBip yes it's like that here, going to be showers all week.
Only thing that I'll be doing is sowing wallflower seeds in toilet roll tubes.

 

Here too. What's with all this rain & cool temps? This kind of weather in New England is unfortunately perfect conditions for a bumper crop of ticks. Yech.

 

I went into the bee hives for an inspection, planted the runner beans and weeded the beetroot seedlings.

 

I began flipping the last and biggest bay of my 3 bay compost bin. A lot of work.

 

I understand well the work involved in flipping the compost. I do that several times during summer through winter to get oxygen into it,
I sed to have this plastic instrument that I would leave stuck into the middle of the compost. The tip would turn colour when the compost would heat-up. Pull it out, a little toggle flipped out and would make a wide hole in the compost upon extraction, thus letting some oxygen in the centre of the pile. I personally did not find that sufficient, so now we turn it.

 

Here is an image of a large screw called a compost aerator that you screw into your compost and then pull the middle out. I have never used one so I cannot vouch for its effectiveness. When I want to make compost quickly, I will build about a 1 meter cubic pile. Thouroughly water it. The ratio of Brown to green material should be 50/50. I put a tarp over it and turn it every day. I can make compost in about 3 weeks. If I turn it every 3 days, can have the finished product in about 6 weeks. Be careful not to let the temperature rise above 70 Celsius. Alternatively I stick my hand in the compost and when it starts to cool down, I turn it.

This morning. I prepared 5 holes for courgettes and a bed for sweet potatoes. I managed to harvest strawberries and hurry home just before the hailstorm. That was a good amount of hail. Oh well.

 

We have had ticks here a few times and bothers us with our Cats..our land would have had sheep on it yonks ago but the ticks live on without the herds..
Hope you can mend your Bird Bath, if you follow Doghouse Riley's repair you will no go far wrong...has not got to be perfect..character items..Left a real favourite behind in Bexhill Home and here it is...well yes the ducks as well was the sadest..We had a lovely spanish looking arch and added a tiled sign of the name of the property Pebbles had to leave that behind of of course..but got the photo of it...



cant remember why it came out so small though. Left the sea behind as well...
Done too much scraping the driveway yesterday and back feels a tad like a vice but will soon pass I feel...

before and after


getting there.....back support next session...
few things flowering or about to burst..

two photos of the same bush to show it is going be one mass of colour..I seem to have more luck with the small roses, even though they some other are climbers or ramblers
as well. Have not had any diseases on them so far that is the key...

This young Weiglas is colourful as you can well see but needs some careful pruning at the end of it season...
Nice not to do the driveway today..Bought some Wallflowers @Logan without your post I would have had no idea about the sowing season of them...Husband says what are those as they are called Giroflee here..and I said look at the picture of the packet..ok still none the wiser.I said they are wallflowers, ok again...what do you do with them..I said again..you plant them in the walls..........He actually bought some in full bloom a couple of weeks ago...obviously like's them, just does not take any notice of the labels.

 

Finished off repairing the fountain.



Removed the cardboard shuttering.









Tidied it up with a file.



None of this can be seen, but I like it to be reasonable looking.









Done and dusted and holding water.

 

Sowing some more wallflower seeds in toilet roll tubes.
Couldn't do much else because of the weather, sunshine and showers some heavy with thunder.

 

That looks great Riley.
Your driveway is coming along DianneW. A lot of work.

Odif, thanks for the tutorial about the compost. During the summer &fall months, i am able to turn it, maybe once a month. I'm not as proficient as you, but I do get some good compost. The real trick comes in the spring when it hasn't been turned for 5+ months, yet we've still been adding to it steadily during the cold months. Just can't turn it when it's frozen& snow covered.

I like your idea of watering& covering it with a tarp. I'll try that. That is once I've turned the mass that's there now into the next bin. Aiichht.

 

Went out to check the hail damage. The Lady with garden next to mine just glared at me and said nothing until I had time to assess the damage.


The leafy greens are all shredded. I could have taken more pics, but what is the point. I take it philosophically, there are always adverse conditions and problems in the garden.