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.