What have you done today in the Garden?

Hubby bought 2 bags of compost, some cell trays and watering trays that the cell trays will fit in.
I found a lot of polyanthus seedlings growing in the border so i put them in the cell trays.

 

@Sjoerd I love that smiley, winking face on the greenhouse. Is that a shower door set up you have on it? That is very clever !!

So far, (why I say "so far" I don't know because I've already showered !! ) I had 22 bags of mulch in the car so I drove down and put 15 bags of mulch on my blackberry patch. Piled up 7 more next to the bed so they are handy when I get that last bit weeded and fertilized. Then I drove to Lowes to get 20 more bags since the sale is 5 for $10. I piled those up half at one end of the shade garden and half on the other, read to spread out once that is weeded and fertilized.

I would've weeded except it was 1:30pm and the prediction was 2pm rain. Not here yet !! But, I'm now totally clean and intend on staying that way for the rest of the day !!

 

Just a couple of hours of general garden housekeeping.

I mowed the small front lawn. It always suffers where the azaleas shade it around the perimeter, a band of about a foot in depth. I gave it a feed and it may need some iron sulphate at the week-end as there's a small amount of moss.







The big acer tree has a lot of buds on it. This is despite me taking 12" off it all the way round and on top in the winter to stop it getting too big.





Gave my Flymo a bit of a service before mowing the lawn.
The lawn in the back garden is recovering, I mowed it all except where there's the new turf, which seems to be taking. I'm watering that twice a day. The rest benefitted from me leaving the two pop-up sprinklers on for a while.

Hard to see the "join" where the new turf starts.
The acer palmatum's leaves are progressing at a pace.








This little acer is doing its best despite the drastic haircut I gave it a week ago.







The blossom on this quince is now fully out.






I put another containing wire around these three azaleas. They've been there for ten years. They want to spread out and shade the grass next to the brick circle and attract moss. I want them to grow upwards and hide the Sambucus's big plastic tub.
I'm winning!






I've removed the containing wires that encourage this wisteria to cascade.




My wife bought this blue-tit feeder from "her" shopping channel a year ago. It wasn't cheap, but it's well-made. We had it hanging from the pergola over the French windows, but they didn't want to know. They used the feeder under the azaleas with the rest of the small birds.
So I've moved it here in this pergola, maybe they'll like it there better.





This acer palmatum Taylor is doing well. The leaves are all the same colour at the moment but later, they will go, yellow, green and pink.





I'm pleased to say that there's no sign of blackspot on the roses, they still have patches of white on some leaves, it's the residue of the sulphur.

 

@Dirtmechanic My soil is also acidic, some spots down to 5.5. I've added lots of ash, sometimes lime, lately mostly crushed eggshell. Author Steve Solomon (I think, my memory isn't great) claims it's due to so much rain over the years and a history of acidic rain.

I think San Marzano is indeterminate? I might have grown them once. I wanted determinates for the paste tomatoes. There are hybrid varieties with bigger paste tomatoes, but I think I like the Romas better.

 

Hubby cut the back grass which didn't take long. I had to water the polyanthus around the path, haven't had any rain for a few weeks.

 

This morning, after the fog cleared, I had to drive to the bank. I got a refund check for $66.25 in the mail so I cashed it and then spent all but $6 and change of it at... where else? The Garden Center !!

Picked up a red snack pepper plant for $6 and a discounted Wallflower plus 22 bags of mulch. I got my pepper plant planted and took out three broccoli plants that I had left to flower for the bees.

Then, I had all these long thin stalks full of green broccoli seed pods so I cut those off of the parent plant and used them for mulch, hoping that the slugs will munch on those rather than anything else !! We'll see how that goes !!

 

Annie—that greenhouse door is simply a sliding door. I smeared on the white stuff to cut the sunlight down. I used my finger to make the little face.… yeah, gardening doesn’t always have to be a serious business. Haha.
The greenhouse will need to be tidied up a bit and re-painted this year.

Riley— your yard and garden plots look really smart already.

 

Of course Dirt, you are absolutely right. There has to be a woman behind every man - to clean up all the mess he makes