popular What have you done today in the Garden?

A bit concerning when looking at the weather forecast on-line last night, that we might be in for some low temperatures and rain. Just when I've put out all my new clematis! But the five day weather forecast for our area suggests no temperatures below 10c and just some rain.

I'm pretty much up-to-date with everything, I may just have a tidy up, do a bit of weeding and give my jukeboxes a "bit of a run out" and clean the interior of the tea-house. Walking in and out of it does make the vinyl floor grubby.

 

Time to clean the strawberry beds.






It was hard hand and knee work, but so rewarding when finished.

 

Your strawberry plants look wonderful !! @Sjoerd

I planted out some cucumber seeds, yellow squash, yellow wax beans, and direct sewed some tagetes marigolds in the raised beds. Then I got after my purple clematis and fed it, gave it some biochar, new compost, limed it and mulched it. That bed was full of weeds...all gone now.

I'm going to have a bite to it and go do more weeding later.

 

I got this idea from watching Gardener's World on Brit Box. You know how Monty ties strings to the roof of the greenhouse and grows his tomatoes up the string ? Well I decided that since it gets so hot here in summer that my tomatoes need more shade.

So, I have all my tomatoes and Pepper plants in 5 gallon pails, tied a string to the bail and up to a branch on my Nectarine and did the same on my Apricot tree. I put a scrap piece of cloth around the branch, then tied the string to the cloth. Here's my results:

 

Annie— cheers, but I must disagree. That near bed in the last foto looks dreadful. All the plants are of seriously different sizes. They are a new variety planted last year. I am not impressed. I will see how they do this season, but I have an idea that they will be removed.

Please show a foto of your Clem when it goes into bloom.

 

Today I had to mow my weeds, whivh the yard has more of than actual grass. Then I planted a pot of marigolds and zinnias to put with my tomato plants and planted out two sweet italian basil plants. I have to harvest myspinach so I have room for a couple more basils in the raised beds. I have Thai basil to put out.

 

I did get some of my flower seeds planted yesterday, but I have 2 grocery sacks of seed to plant.... Some of echinacea, zinnias, marigolds, cosmos... Plus I have various bought seeds to plant when it warms up some.

My friend finally came today for her forsythia bushes and other flowers. She fell a few days ago, and is still rather sore. She is slightly older than I am. I told her that I have more if she wants some more.

I did get the last of the variegated hostas dug out, and planted most of those. I need to count how many clumps I divided them into. I had bought them years ago at Walmart, and it was only a couple of plants. I had to divide them so I could lift them. Those clumps were heavy. I forgot how many clumps I moved last fall... But they are in shady areas, and should be fine. I have two large areas of other hostas--the big green ones with white flowers.

The sedums that I moved are growing like weeds... and happy in their new places. And there are still more where I removed them from.

This is an old farmstead, and there are old vintage flowers growing here and there. My old vintage hyacinths are blooming. The phone camera does not get their color acurate.


The hostas are from other summers. The hyacinths and daffodils I took today. I have two kinds of variegated hostas, and then the green ones. They are not blooming in these pictures. I also took pictures of a few purple crocuses today, and posted them on fb, but did not find them. Sorry I am not very good at editing photos, or I would have removed some of the backgrounds.


I got these to move apart.




These get large white bell shaped flowers.




My vintage hyacinths. They bloom early in spring. I have a couple of newer hybrids, but they are not blooming yet. These are much more purple than blue.




These are some of my double daffodils by the driveway, and I am still fighting the honeysuckle vines. When these are done blooming, I want to transplant them elsewhere so I can burn this spot more.