What have you done today in the Garden?

It's been too wet (for me) to play golf or do anything in the garden today.
We're promised a heatwave for later in the week. I'm sure I'll find some things to do.

 

Potted on some more of the wallflowers and did some watering.

 

Oh wow @carolyn what a mess! This wasn't the leftover wind & rain from the hurricane, was it?

 

no idea.

 

Picked the first gooseberries of the season.

 

Harvested some spuds and onions and some bunching onions too. I weeded a maize patch.

 

Hi Nice thread
I always spend half an hour in the garden, Today I collected some vegetables from my garden, added some fertilizers to the plants, pluck the weeds in between the plants also shaped the landscaping grass with the help of lawnmowers.

 

Picked some more blackcurrants, raspberries, Loganberries and pinkcurrants.
Potted on some more wallflowers and going to do some watering.

 

Today was a golf day, so I only spent a couple of hours in the garden this afternoon.
I gave our several wisterias a prune. This is the time of year when they put on a lot of growth. Like many plants, they want to put out the maximum amount of growth nearest the root. It's like a garden hose, more water will come out of a hole in it near the tap than one twenty yards away..


These are "two and a half" wisterias.The left hand half is a branch from the one on the pergola on the side of the garage, the other grows up the pergola post on the right. It wants to "bunch" at the top of that post, so it's a question of thinning it out to encourge more growth in the middle of the pergola. I like to achieve an even amount of foliage along its length. The foliage keeps the sun off a bit in our lounge.







The "half" is this pink one in the small bed next to the kitchen window.

 

Watering weeding strimming harvesting and transplanting lettuces.

 

Picked some blackcurrants, blueberries, gooseberries and raspberries.did some watering.

 

Did some schoffeling and went into the bees. It was hot !
We made a start on emptying the the old strawb patch.

 

My wife wasn't particularly impressed with the "security measures," I'd taken (a slate), to prevent 'arry for getting into the long grass of the garden of the presently unoccupied house next door.




"A cat could knock that over and he could get through. What we need is a little door."

"A......little......door?"

"Yes, a little door...with a lock on it."

"A ....little...door...with a lock on it.....you're joking?"

"No I'm not, so when it's safe for him to be able to wander next door you can unlock it."

Now I blame myself, for having the ability to usually "knock something up," or successfuly engage in a bigger project, which usually starts with my wife saying "What I thought was..."

Anyway.. On my way home from golf this afternoon (pleased with myself, had a gross 84, best score for...well...this year I think) and before I did some shopping, I called into the local woodyard to see if I could get an offcut length of decking board. I must have been speaking to the manager and because I was vague about how long it needed to be, I explained to him what it was for. We went into the yard and he found me a piece six foot by 4.5" which was ideal. He wouldn't take any money for it. All he said was "I like hedgehogs"

So with a bit of "fettling."

This afternoon I made this.






The hole in the concrete panel behind it, is still the same size. I'll probably paint it with Dulux exterior woodstain, like the rest of the woodwork in the garden.

 

That's very good @Doghouse Riley it looks a lot better than before.

 

Did some watering and picked 5lb of gooseberries