popular What have you done today in the Garden?

Thanks @Pacnorwest ......I knew that my 1st career would come in handy again one day, I was a hairdresser .

Hubs runs them through the shredder then it gets spread along the far side boundary path that is lined with hedging as you say it's a good fertiliser. I also mix it in with last years bagged leaf mould and will use it as a border mulch this Autumn. Too good to waste isn't it.

Yes still pondering over the Lavender, despite having plenty dotted around elsewhere in the garden I hate the thought of just getting rid of it. I think I will risk chopping it down in size quite a bit and seeing how it reacts next year. It's a real hindrance on that main but fairly narrow pathway.

It's the bloomin acorns collecting that I find a tiresome task , but I look forward to gathering up the leaves despite it seeming like a never-ending job I even collect them from outside in the lane.....I just keep thinking of the lovely leaf mould next year!!

The laundry gets done in the evening so it's ready to hang out first thing before I have breakfast.

 

@Pacnorwest I know you didn't ask me, but I chop and drop my shrub cuttings. I tuck them in under the shrub. It saves me on mulching materials. Plus, I'm a lazy gardener and I don't want to bother hauling them off !!

I'm still watering my flower beds. I hope to get the remainder of them finished tonight then I have to start on the berry bushes and fruit trees. God knows when it will rain again.

 

Finally finished the flue for the wood burner



Gotta test it with smoke pellets tomorrow

 

Oreti— you have done some serious graft there. Chapeau.
The lavender looks like an Angustifolia type.
Sometimes a girl has to do what a girl has to do, right?

 

Thanks @Anniekay .

 

That name rings a bell @Sjoerd ..thanks.

 

This is what I've done so far with the polyanthus, I like a bit of order.

 

"Fortunately," it's been too wet for gardening as there's a lot of sport on TV.

 

We took down the trial bed with toms over at the neighbours’.
Mid-season:


This afternoon:


Just as we were finishing, the rain began to fall. We went home.

 

@Logan that is a sharp looking flower bed in your picture posted above. Will be interesting to see how it looks when the they all bloom. By the way that’s a lot of work… and you labeled yourself a lazy gardener. I’m with you every shortcut I can take counts.

Logan as far as stuffing cuttings under shrubs go, if they are small enough to stuff under shrubs that is a habit I have had for far to long. Every New Years that is one of my resolutions, which of course I never manage to keep. The piles generally breaks down enough after a season or two… turns into fine black gold soil and smells like spring.
But… The larger cuttings and especially evergreen or woody types, I usually lay a tarp down under the shrubs where the trimmings fall on the tarp as I run the edger over the shrubs , then scoot the tarp over to the next shrub etc. When done I drag the tarp to the grass or pastures simply dump it to mulch with the mower. Different strokes for different folks.

 

Thank you Pacnorwest, it's a good idea that you have, i do that a lot it helps in the winter for the bugs and anything that likes to hide.

 

Finished planting the polyanthus around the path.

 

It's bright and sunny and quite warm and the garden has dried out, no puddles on the patio,
But just a bit of, "indoor gardening" today.

Over twenty years ago, I bought two white ceramic plant pots and carefully drilled three holes in each, to turn them into hanging baskets for our hall.
The chains are attached to hooks in the ceiling at the top of the stairs. These hooks pass through the plasterboard into some noggins, I fixed between two rafters, so they will take a considerable weight.



We usually have peace lilies in plastic pots in these, but after a couple of years they get a bit "woody, so I change them. They always struggle a bit as the only light they get is from the window on the landing and there's little sun on that side of the house as it's north facing.

I changed them today. A bit of "dear doo," £7.50 each, plus £6 for some hanging basket compost.





I give them a feed occasionally, with this I bought in Tesco's a couple of years ago. It was reduced to clear.

 

Checked the mole traps and caught one and caught two ground squirrels in the squirrel trap. Yeah… I am so tired of loosing plants and tunnels in the lawns and gardens. I still have one mole in the front and a squirrel near the barn.
Have ordered some bait hoping to get them outta the barn and home roof and from digging round the foundations.

 

I wish lavender would go hog wild here! I have two medium pots of lavender... Maybe it ought to go in the ground, possibly out front. I don't get that bed watered so much. It is far from the hoses. Maybe I ought to add the kitchen sage (I think that is what it is) out front. It doesn't like too much water either.

The plants that I thought were poached egg flowers are actually snap dragons. I guess the poached egg flowers did not grow. The pink daisies did not grow either.

The cucumbers LOOK good, but have very little fruit. They are full of flowers and have good soil. My tomatoes have not done much either. Guess I will add manure to that area over the winter. Maybe I can make some manure tea this week, and see if that will help them? The watermelons have 3 fruits that look nice.

I did do a bit of my mowing today, but not much. We had some rain overnight, and allegedly will get more overnight again.