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Post by Dutchy on Aug 15, 2021 9:20:47 GMT
Hm there are oodles of tulips in the old strawberrie bed.... I feel a search and rescue moment coming up....
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Post by Barbara on Aug 16, 2021 10:40:54 GMT
Some deadheading is all at the mo. and I made a beer trap to try to save what's left of the dahlias in the front garden
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Post by Tig on Aug 16, 2021 15:16:07 GMT
Weeding, deadheading and watering. Very cool here, had to put a fleece on!
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Post by Ladygardener on Aug 16, 2021 17:04:37 GMT
Cool and cloudy but not cold here, no sun either 'tho. We picked raspberries, sorted out strawberry runners and cut back comfrey. Here at my house, I tidied up the pyrecantha and dead headed Roses.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 16, 2021 18:59:16 GMT
Picked blackberries, watered the toms, then the heavens opened and I got drenched running back to the car.
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Post by maggy on Aug 16, 2021 19:12:33 GMT
I pruned the rose bush in the front garden it had some black spot so I pruned back the effected branches.Did a bit of weeding then cut everything that was growing over the path in the back garden I noticed my Sister leaning to avoid breaking things so I cut them all back, also cut some of the hellebores back I cant do a good job until they empty the green bin ! it hasn't been emptied for a month now.
The smoke candle that John ordered off the internet has come today , he has repaired one of the glass panes that had slipped. Dont know when I will light it.
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Post by Tig on Aug 19, 2021 12:40:47 GMT
Managed to get a bit done before it rained. I had spotted 3 hazel saplings growing smack bang in the middle of the stipa gigantea, wasn't sure if they'd come out but with several good tugs they did, one snapped but a little bit of root came with it so hopefully it won't grown again. Pruned the dead flowers off the white buddleia on the front and a branch off the choisya sundance which had wilted for some reason, all the rest of it looks OK. Watered the toms & cucs, must feed them today, keep forgetting. Pulled a few random weeds I spotted and deadheaded the clumps of calendula to keep them flowering for as long as possible, the hovers & bees seem to love them.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 19, 2021 12:46:11 GMT
Dead heading, and trying to stand the sweet peas back up. wet now so nothing else today,
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 19, 2021 15:33:05 GMT
I tidied up the edges in the front garden and dead headed all the pots. Time to start the edges in the back garden again!!!
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Post by Ladygardener on Aug 20, 2021 13:17:38 GMT
Planted out 2 perennial geraniums along the fence at the bottom of the border this morning along with a holly that we'd grown from a cutting. That was it before the rain came on.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 20, 2021 14:49:48 GMT
On the plot I've bagged some compost out of the bays, weeded the strawberry beds, picked some French beans and cucumbers and tomatoes, gave some to the neighbours, pulled the tomato plants that had blight, I'll try to burn them this weekend.
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Post by maggy on Aug 20, 2021 17:48:49 GMT
Ive chopped my hellebores down to the ground, trimmed a couple of climbers and weeded pots and cut back the petunias.
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Post by Tig on Aug 20, 2021 17:48:50 GMT
I climbed in to weed behind the box hedge, cut back the cercis canadensis, contorted hazel, fatsia japonica & variegated weigela florida so I could get down the back path, it had turned into a jungle. Whilst weeding I found another ruddy rat hole! The holes we filled in the path must have locked something in I reckon and they'd dug themselves out into the border by the side arch. Poison in it now, and OH has moved one of the traps right next to it.
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 21, 2021 15:48:36 GMT
We went to our local GC and bought 2 Shubunkins to go in our pond. Keep going to investigate but they are hiding at the minute!
I also potted on most of my houseplants as they desperately needed bigger pots.
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Post by Tig on Aug 22, 2021 15:09:26 GMT
Got loads done this aft, deadheading phlox, calendulas, cosmos, dahlias (OH snapped a beautiful flower stem off this morning tidying up fallen petals!) Cut back the lower growth on one of the magnolias, hard pruned the deutzia strawberry fields, managed to cut back a few foxglove stems before they drop seed everywhere. Old hellebore leaves tidied up and weeds pulled wherever I spotted them. Tidied the toms & cucumbers, found a giant cucumber hiding in the foliage, far too big to eat so it has gone in the compost bin, hopefully some of the other ones will grow on more quickly now, and I can see them. Collected another tub of toms, not picked the peppers yet, it is supposed to be a warmer week so they may ripen a bit more. Forgot to pick the runner beans, must do that tomorrow.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 22, 2021 16:13:11 GMT
Deadheading, seed collecting, watering hanging baskets, sowing cabbage seeds.
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Post by Dutchy on Aug 22, 2021 16:58:36 GMT
In between heavy showers got the brooklet running better. The roots of surrounding plants were invading. Muddy old me was chuffed it is done.
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 22, 2021 17:58:06 GMT
Watered and fed the pots and potted on a house plant which I forgot about yesterday.
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Post by Tig on Aug 23, 2021 15:50:00 GMT
Picked the runner beans, more watering and deadheading. OH tracked the rat hole through to the bungalow garden, behind a large evergreen. We reckon they disturbed the rats under the shed when they were building the workshop they put up, and they've tunnelled through. Filled it with some compost, but he dug up a hellebore & binned it doing the job! I've rescued it and potted it one. Also collected seeds from a few pacific coast iris and have sown them in large pots.
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 23, 2021 17:28:22 GMT
Mowed some of the lawn with the hand mower, it does a much better job than the petrol mower but it would be impossible to do the whole garden like that. Did all the edges again and did some dead heading. I also potted on the Christmas tree I bought from Sainsburys when Boris cancelled Christmas and we couldn't go to our friends. For a little thing that was hacked out of the ground it has grown well and it has a good root system.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 23, 2021 18:19:20 GMT
A bit of dead heading at home, then went to the allotments and dug up my potatoes, took the last of the toms off 2 plants and put the stalks in the compost, weeded the strawberry bed, it always has nettles in, they are in the compost as well, Derek weeded the paths then we watered and came home.
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Post by Dutchy on Aug 24, 2021 8:03:38 GMT
Cut back all the tall grass between my fruit trees. Killed some slugs in the same go and disposed of the grass on the farmers big heap. Too many rats about making nests so I do not want to offer them material on my plot.
End of September the new tulips for those tall gras borders will come.
Speaking of bulbs I am trying hard to destinguish between te bulbs I dug up in the old strawberrie bed. The pointiest ones should be the lilly shaped tulip. I will plant those in the main border at the front. Fingers crossed I got it right. With tulips it is often hit and more often missssss when you try to determine them by bulb only.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 24, 2021 10:19:35 GMT
I cleaned and tidied the shed out, pots washed and stacked, always one that I find should have gone near the bottom when I reach the top, trays cleaned and stacked up, I found a bucket of leaf mould in there, I've spread that on the back border. Good luck with the tulip bulbs Dutchy, I hope you got it right, but I usually find I got wrong.
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Post by Tig on Aug 24, 2021 11:12:40 GMT
I don't mind too much if I get the tulips wrong, often the suppliers do too! They still add that burst of spring colour to a border. I've been out pruning the white buddleia, the flowers that go brown really make it look tatty. While I was on the front I decided to cut back an old hebe, I did some of it last year and it resprouted well, hoping it will do the same again, the middle was all dead anyway so it leggy & top heavy. Trimmed back a few of the alpines growing in the dry stone wall, need to do the aubretias but the garden bin is nearly full and it's another week before it gets emptied.
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 24, 2021 17:28:23 GMT
I just watered the pots as it was quite warm today.
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Post by Tig on Aug 24, 2021 18:36:07 GMT
I went back and trimmed the top off the myrtus communis, it was getting too tall and blocking light to the plants behind it. Should never have put it where I did, bit late to move it now though.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 25, 2021 13:04:06 GMT
It's a lovely day so we spent the morning on the allotments, picked runner beans, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes ate some strawberries, dug over a bed that had onions in, ready for spring cabbages, pulled lots of calendula and aqualegia and composted them, and put some sprouting potatoes into compost in a bag in the GH, hope they will be ready for Christmas dinner.
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Post by Barbara on Aug 26, 2021 13:00:29 GMT
I've cut the lawn and trimmed the edges, dead heading cosmos and sweet peas, too warm now o do any more.
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 26, 2021 18:21:45 GMT
The green bin still had room in it so I cut back a lot of ivy, goat willow and brambles coming over from our neighbours. It looks better now and there's a bit more light in places.
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 28, 2021 16:27:16 GMT
I dealt with all the stuff coming over from our neighbour's side, that half filled the brown bin!!!
I also planted my Morrison's violas in some of the daffodil pots which had been pushed to one side and unpacked my Hayloft order. All the plants look to be in good condition.
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