What I did today 2022

[ameno]

Finished weeding all of the strawberries and other soft fruit.
Mulched the rhubarb and asparagus.

[Mark Rand]

Took a pruning saw to the buddleja. Probably haven't managed to kill it though...

[ameno]

Finished digging over the old lavender and crocosmia patch.
Weeded some of one of the strawberry beds.
Brought back all of the lavender branches, along with the grape prunings and the now finished tenderstem broccoli plants, for shredding in the next few days.

[Bren In Pots]

No gardening instead I stacked logs.

[bikermike]

Clearing a big bed (4, 5 and 6 in my planting plan) ready for card'n'compost tomorrow, and hoed over some other beds for a compost top-up.

and some weeding and putting wood preservative on the shed.

[ameno]

Finished clearing the old lavender and the crocosmia. Excavated four buckets fulls of corms in the end. Now I just need to dig the area over ready for the new plants.

[quanglewangle]

Moved the contents of the most mature compost bin to the to-be potato plot.
Quite a workout when the vegetable garden is 400m from the utility yard. Only 50m through the house but Mrs quanglewangle won't allow it.

[peanut]

Cleared 3 veg beds and covered 2 with bagged manure. Lifted some netting off another bed to let the birds have some fun.

[Mark Rand]

It's a shame that they haven't been forced to spell aluminium correctly, even though that is now the recognised spelling.

[quanglewangle]

*Correct IUPAC speeling nowadays...

If we let The Cousins get their hands on standards we'll be measuring in velocity in furlong fortnight ^-1 before long

[Bren In Pots]

Lots of little jobs around the garden plus some seed sowing.

[Mark Rand]

Fumigated the first greenhouse. Got the paraffin soaked wicks on the sulfur* candles a bit too enthusiastic, but they did the job anyway.

*Correct IUPAC speeling nowadays...

[quanglewangle]

Dug over where the potatoes are going. Another week or ten days and they will be going in. Will rake it clean tomorrow and set out the fleece so it warms up a bit.

[Ms-T]

I cut the grass...so warm and dry today.

[Mark Rand]

Finally got off my backside during the warmest day of the year so far and took out the greenhouse staging and propagators, then cleaned the glass on the inside of both greenhouses. I'll fumigate them tomorrow, then I'll clean the outside glass on the next warm day.