popular What have you done today in the Garden?

@AAnightowl, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry reading your injury history. I certainly can relate to a lot of what happened along your trail of injury challenges. Very glad that at 71 you’re still going strong and enjoying your life journey as well as sharing your gardening skills and stories . I guess… Life is like a box of candy ya never know what your gonna get.

 

Well done @AAnightowl, you've certainly been through a lot...gosh!! You have the fighting spirit to ' pick yourself up, brush yourself down' and keep going.

The good thing is you know what you can and can't do and what is good for your body.
So long as we keep a good lifestyle balance that we are willing to adapt as we age and never give up the things that bring us joy.....and you are doing a great job of this.....that is what is really important. x

 

Taking a morning coffee break from prepping the greenhouse in readiness for some ' growing action'.
Just cleaned inside and dumped a lot of rubbish...broken pots, snapped label tags....pots with dead and unrecognizable occupants..( I did say I had snapped label tags ) and even pots with compost in them and no occupants .

I'm now off out to wash the outside of it as its sporting a rather tatty looking 'green coat'. We 've had more rain this morning so hopefully that will make the job a tad easier..

 

All washed and now the rain is doing the final rinse for me.

I have also cut right back the Yellow Rod and Catananche caerulea ,they were retained for their winter interest and benefits to wildlife.

 

This euonymus was supposed to be a rockery plant, which we bought decades ago. But I encouraged it to grow up the fence behind the rockery.



Over ten years ago I put a woven plastic "robin's nest" in it, I'd bought, but there wasn't much evidence of it being used.


But, in the last few days I've seen a robin going into the leaves, I've not gone anywhere near the nest. So as at the moment I'm not using either of the trail/cams as the hedgehogs will still be hibernating, I've fixed this one to one of the garage pergola posts, to record any activity.

 

That euonymous is gorgeous !! @Doghouse Riley

 

Riley— you’ve got my interest now with the robin news.

 

That reminds me… It’s that time of year…Gardeners… hook up those cams… .

 

I ate pasta for lunch and it made me drowsy so, I fell asleep and didn't wake up until 3:45 pm !! So I grabbed a coffe and went outside. I planted 3 cauliflower and a cabbage. I had thought that I had 4 cabbages, I was mistaken. Then I got trimming my knockout roses and some other roses and bushes and when it got dark I came in.

The hard freezes we had did my broccoli plants in so those went into the compost and my cauliflowers went next to where that broccoli was. Tomorrow I plant more carrots, peas and lettuce because the frost damaged lots of those as well.

 

Nothing today, too wet. The camera didn't pick up any activity in the Ceanothus. I'll check again tomorrow.
On the next dry day, I need to get at the big acer in the front garden.
There's a lot of buds on it. I'll prune off the ends of the small branches, this will stop any that try to "bolt" and spoil the lollypop shape.

 

Nothing today it's too wet.

 

Same here in the US PNW. Foggy and damp as a wet otters pocket.
The back garden evergreens are holding the best winter color thru all the winter weather conditions.

 

I got all my raised beds weeded and watered. Then I planted two rows of carrots and a row of lettuce. Then all my snow peas but a few short ones got badly frosted so those got composted and I replanted them.

I need to weed my flower beds tomorrow. They are absolutely overrun with weeds. The weeds grow faster in winter than in summer down here.

 

Have you forgotten your blue crocuses??

 

We have discovered that a rat had dug under and into the Dalek compost bin. So then, we took it all apart and placed a tough metal mesh under the Dalek and secured it with a length of wire.

We also went over to the other bin where we are processing leaf mould. We turned the leaves and discovered a sock and a pair of sunglasses. I have no idea how they got in there. It is a modern day wonder.