What I did today 2024.

[Bren In Pots]

Yesterday weeded the GH borders and tidied up tomato plants.

[bramble]

Took several geranium cuttings and potted them up.
Pulled up and emptied out some old strawberry plants.
Cut down two container gooseberry bushes that weren't doing very well.
Lots of deadheading, sweet peas dahlias, and geraniums.
squeezed in between the greenhouse and the back wall and cut down raspberry bushes that were trying to take over.
All in all a busy day.
Have a good evening.

[Jungle Jane]

I noticed I could see some tomato roots,in my pots,on the surface of the compost,visible,so I went round with some compost covering them all. Deadheaded the flowers,took some lower tomato leaves off. Picked runner beans & two tomatoes took them round mums & she gave me some Victoria plums from her tree. I've just watered everything we haven’t had much rain here this month 🧐

[Mark Rand]

On Friday I finished digging and sieving the little front 'lawn'. next week I'll rake it, tread it remove any surplus and fertilize it. Then leave it to fallow until I seed it in mid September.

This was just over halfway through:-

[Containergardener]

Ooh now that's a proper siever
Good job, you'll have it looking great.

[Containergardener]

Over the last couple of days I've picked all the bread beans , peas, removed them .
Emptied the compost bin of decent stuff and put some onto that bed and mulched some onto the other.
(Both new beds this yr)

Grass cutting, strimming, dead heading, harvesting

Potted on further my beans that will go in soon once a bit bigger ( in hope they don't get slugged straight away)

[Bren In Pots]

Dug out a couple of Aquilege plants that were growing amongst my raspberries.

[Containergardener]

Cut mums grass and tying in plants

Came home to do weeding

[Andraste]

Weeding & harvesting. Pulled the broadies. Squished cabbage white eggs & caterpillars on the PSB & swede. Removed dead & mildewed leaves on squash & cucumber. Picked a few yellow leaves off the brassicas.
Gave the French beans some comfrey tea. Took some low leaves off the tom.

[Andraste]

Picked the last of the chillies & binned the plants (past saving).

[peanut]

I have spent so little time in the garden this summer, I've had to tell my self to kind of write it off for this year and plan for next instead.
However! I finally managed to get lots of stuff potted up today and it such a weight off my mind.
I've planted my duo plum into a big pot, it's been in it's delivery pot since last Autumn!
Planted up all my herbs into pots, lemon verbena, French tarragon, lemon thyme, parsley, curly and flat, a little bay plant, rosemary and sage.
Got the last of the calibrachoa into existing pots along with some begonias and fushia cuttings that have been rooting in water for way too long.
Planted little miss figgy, who had been suffering in a small pot for way too long, into her own big pot.
Planted mulberry charlotte russe and tied in her branches, she's also been in a tiny pot for a year, yet she's got lots of little fruits appearing!
Pottted up a horseradish plant that I purchased months ago in a 9cm pot in the middle of a nice big pot with some rainbow chard round the outside.
Removed lower leaves from tomatoes.
Planted some peppermint chard, actrually in the ground!
Still so much to do but at least most of the things in little pots are now done, apart from 9 comfrey plants...I still don't know where to put them!

[Mark Rand]

Yesterday I started raking leveling and treading what will be the front lawn. After that I pruned the Morello cherry tree.

Today, I was supposed to do some bush pruning, lawn strimming and more raking and leveling. But because of the rain, that's been rescheduled until tomorrow. Instead, I trimmed dried and poorly leaves from all the cucumbers and the courgette plant.

[Containergardener]

The other day I noticed botrytis on some tomato stems so I decided to remove the green tomatoes (cherry varieties) Nd removed the plants.
Removed the cucumber apple, its stem had rotted. Not had any luck with cucumbers this year.
Potted on basil's in there and spread things out a bit.
Pulled the chard and spinach that had bolted.

[peanut]

Finally pruned the apple trees!

[ameno]

Dug over and fertilised the patch where the onions were, then planted out my purple sprouting plants.