What have you done today in the Garden?

Fabulous blooms and scrumptious looking harvests everyone .

Just in the middle of a early session out here, lots of deadheading...not a moan as it's my fave Summer task, so relaxing wandering around and nipping off deceased blooms. I find it provides an ideal
opportunity to really explore the garden in more
depth...what's working...what's not etc.

I have a bit more watering left to do and then that'll be it until this evening for me.


Hope you had a great day @Willowisp0801 ,

 

Thanks Oreti! All of you are so sweet!



This is another video. The Lannon stone bridge in Tosa (Wauwatosa) is VERY close to me. My granddaughter and I have ridden our bikes there!

 

Gosh!!!! that is horrendous and so scary.!!
Hope there weren't any fatalities.

 

Another task this morning was sweeping up the acorns on the little east patio. They are a potential death trap. Step on them and it's as if you're wearing roller skates!!! Definitely don't want anyone to fall or break a leg!!

The acorns are dropping in their bucket fulls at the moment ,everyday I go out and collect them up. Our Postie always comes this way so I am concerned he might slip up.
Not sure why they are dropping so early and so heavily..perhaps because of the drought.


I haven't got the time now to do a thorough job as they are building up between the paving slabs and require scraping out.
Hubs is out for the morning and I'm off out soon for lunch with a friend so it will have to wait.

 

@Willowisp0801 it seems floods are happening almost everywhere this year !!

@Oreti My trees are turning their leaves early this year, cool weather is here 6 weeks earlier than normal and I think all those acorns will be welcomed by wildlife since they predict a long and cold winter as well !!

 

Wow Oreti— that’s NUTS !
You be careful out there now; rolly objects and a convalescent knee are not friends, wot!
Enjoy your day out.

 

Early 6am dawned my waders and scooper and was a squidger for a few hours poking in the wet muddy patches of the bog like bottom of the small pond to cultivate water based plants and clean out the water flag iris taking over the entire space.

Trees and shrubs are turning color early this year will have a long beautiful Autumn.

 

Nothing today apart from domestic chores. Did a lot of watering late on, which was tiresome.

 

From Sunday but I sowed my second batch of green beans, Swiss Chard and beets. Lettuce and spinach next week

 

I had to go pick up my prescription meds in the Big town and get a few groceries, then stop at the bank. When I was driving home there was a huge bank of clouds moving from west to east towards my town. Got groceries in and then the rumbling started. I wanted to and had planned on doing more pruning, especially my rambling roses but it rained and thundered off and on the rest of the day. Another unintentional procrastination !!

 

Clay— way to go. We are going to need updates, reports and; of course, piccies. You know that, right?
I am envious of your extended growing season.

 

Yesterday just watering pots and the polyanthus in the garden.

Today not much,too hot and got to have a bit of Lazer treatment on my right eye.
4 years ago i had cataracts removed but my right eye started to go cloudy, some of the cells got left behind and clouded it on the inside, they're going to make a hole in the lens so that i can see properly,at the moment it feels out of focus and it showed up on my eye examination at the opticians.

 

I have been out there... I repotted my lemon tree which turned out to be 3 lemon trees yesterday, and with the one I planted that makes 4 lemon trees. Missouri is not tropical, so they will come indoors in the fall. I put a potted echinacea in the ground, so it ought to do better and that freed up a pot for the lemon trees.

I have been out there mowing, and weeding, and watering... and sweating. At least it is only 49 days until FALL arrives. I did find a couple of small pumpkins on my pumpkin vines. The watermelon vines look good, but no watermelons yet... And no cantelopes (or whatever on those vines, though they have been flowering. The cuke vines are faster, and doing well. I should get some good cucumbers soon.

My red potatoes are almost ready to harvest.

The other night I couldnt sleep, so I got up around 1 am and turned on the porch light and harvested two large tubs of elderberries (the trees are near my porch). Then I went to sleep. I had a flashlight with me also to be sure there were NO snakes.

Rabbits have eaten the tops off of some of my red beets and carrots. I gave them compost tea and sprinkled red pepper flakes around. Maybe they will recover? I hope so. That "rabbit proof" fencing is not really rabbit proof. Maybe some dog hair from the vaccuum cleaner would repel them? Probably not, it would just make a mess. I need more fencing anyway.

The pumpkin and gourd vines are going crazy and growing all over the place, even into the pasture. I will put my watermelons in the compost pile next year.

I want to transplant my hostas. Their shade tree is gone and they are not happy in the sunshine. I have a shady flower bed out back, and I want to put all or most of my hostas there. The internet says fall or spring are the best times to move them. I need to re-clean out that bed again, so it will take me a few weeks to get to that. I did major cleaning in that bed last winter but it does not look it now.

I also want to remove most of my sedums, they have just spread too much. I will toss them in the woods, and maybe they will grow there. They don't seem to mind shade or sun. I have sedums in white, red, and maybe some pink ones. I have not noticed the pink ones for a few seasons, so not sure. I will leave the red ones alone, they are not so many as the white ones. I also have some creeping sedums that get yellow flowers when they bloom that have spread a lot. I am pulling a lot of them. I think I will put them by the road when I clean out that area. .An old friend that is gone now used to call them "house leeks", but they are not leeks. She had funny names for a lot of things.

I need to go around with a scissors and paper bags and collect seed heads from black eyed Susans, and marigolds etc... I think I will separate them this year.

 

Loggie— it is hot, isn’t it. Too hot now, but at 20:00 it will be cooler, so I will pop pot to the lottie tonight to give water and check things out.
Behave yourself at the doc’s and you may get a lollie.
Stay cool.

AA— I enjoy reading your long accounts. Take good care of those hostas, and stay cool.

 

Thank you Sjoerd, it went well this morning and i can see the difference already. it only took an hour altogether, so that was good.

Yes it is still hot today so not doing much, going to lose most of the polyanthus so just bought 80 garden ready plug plants so they'll arrive in September. I've got 90 good sized plants that i started from seed.

Although the last 2 years I've been lucky that they were wet summers.