What have you done today in the Garden?

Did nothing today as it was golf in the morning and I'm now watching the tennis at Queens.
My rack of screwdrivers has arrived from Aldi. Fits nicely in the corner of my workbench in the garage. There's even a plastic dust cover for it. Twenty-five pounds well spent.

 

It was too hot to do much only watering in the morning and the evening.

 

It's been too wet to do much, but I managed to weed a bit between showers yesterday. Sawed some branches into smaller pieces and tidied up a pile of twigs and said branches that I had left sitting for a bit too long. Carried bags of garden waste and things I don't want to compost over to the hedge by the road so they're easier to grab and chuck in the car for a trip to the municipal garden waste dump. They have a fancy composting machine hot enough to kill weed seeds and roots. They claim.

 

Oh my.......that is a must have. I will begin a search for Christmas, although I think I may strike out. What a great purchase! Really happy for you - everything right there at your fingertips.

 

Planted up the 3 tubs with a standard fuchsia, Snapdragons,pot marigolds, trailing geranium, trailing fuchsia and some eurigeron, all 3 the same.

 

My goodness Loggie— you are going to have a sort of floral Garden of Eden there.
Don’t forget us when this all blooms, oké?

 

Didn't do much yesterday as it was too warm. Spent some time in the garage going through all the stuff I had in cupboards, drawers and on shelves, with intention of chucking out stuff I would never use. Didn't find much. But I did find things I'd forgotten I had, "which might come in useful."

I might dead-head the last rhodo this evening.

Two items I'd ordered from eBay arrived this morning a new "Arrow" staple gun. I'd been struggling with a cheap one I bought ten years ago when I was attaching the roofing felt to 'arry's winter house. £32 well spent.
I remembered Arrow staplers from when I managed a departmental store in the seventies. Each window dresser had their own, they were very reliable machines as they got a lot of use. I often borrowed one to use at home. This was pretty much the same model. I don't know when I'll next need it, but I like to be "prepared."

I also bought a new cutting head for my twenty year-old Dahle paper trimmer from a small stationery supplier.
I'd seen some at silly prices. This was advertised at £6 but I got it for £4, might have been as they only had the one.

Dahle list them at £10.99.

 

Thank you and yes i'll post pics in the other thread, actually I've just took some rose pics so i'll put them in the what's looking good in June thread.

 

This morning had to pick
Red currants, about 4 lb some are not ripe because the birds were eating them.

Black berries and raspberries

This afternoon will be too hot to do anything else.

 

Went into the garden this afternoon to give the acer palmatums and Taylor a mist spray with the hose. On really hot days, the leaves can burn otherwise.

 

Oh Loggie, don’t those fruits look wonderful !
Red currants, black currents and raspberries….tasty. Now tell— what are you going to do with them? Eat them as they are, put them in yoghurt, put them on vanilla ice cream, make a sauce with them, make ice lollies with them or a jam? Wotcha gonna dooooo?

You are lucky that the blackbirds and thrushes didn’t clean out your red currents. Over here folks have to protect them carefully and thoroughly.

 

We schoffeld and weeded the blueberry patch, jerked the snap peas out and composted their remains, melted the last of the old bee frames, clipped all the foliage off the strawbs and watered them well. We gave water to all the veggies in the garden. There were some beans that needed tying-in and toms that needed suckering, leaf removal, feeding and re-sticking.
Pshew—it was hot today.

 

Thank you Sjoerd, the redcurrants and blackcurrants will go with gooseberries and white currants in a fruit compote or summer puddings. The raspberries will go on our breakfast cereal for hubby and my porridge, along with a lot of other fruit, but at the moment they're all in the freezer.

 

Sjeord you've done a lot today and in the hot weather. I've only picked the fruit and nothing else in the garden as yet, got to water the blueberries.

 

We started way early this morning, otherwise it would not have been possible. Chuckle.