In my garden in April............

Penelope_Penguin

Hello! Done another late shift with DH in the garden. I've been clearing most of the rest of the brushwood from out boundary hedge, in a bonfire. Should be able to finish that off with one more bonfire. DH has been watering.

My sweetcorn is up, as are most of the onions and shallots. Garlic has been a dead loss, but I have a fresh bulb from the farm shop, so will push them in tomorrow. DH has earthed up the potatoes in the polytunnel.

Will try and post some more pics tomorrow - if I can find where I mislaid my camera..........

Penny. x

hex2

Free manure PP! You lucky soul. I cant get any for money even. Reduced to buying it from local garden centre. I need a couple of tonnes. I will have to ring round a few local riding schools. Tried Freecycle without success.

At the weekend on the left front lawn that was stripped out a few weeks ago, lovely OH spent 4 days laying 350 bricks and lots of concrete to do my paths and beds. This weekend he is building the arbour. Digging over the beds there is a serious hard pan a few inches down. Really heavy going so I am going to have to tackle it a bit at a time. Explains the moss/grass though.

Whilst he was working hard the boys and I experimented with the joys of riddling half of the veg plot. They loved it, and I now have a good 3m by 9m ready for sowing instead of full of stones. I even bribed them with their own easter eggs.

This weekend we have further construction at the front and seed sowing at the back, weather and children permitting.

nodwah

Hello, anyone still up?

My DH's birthday przzie arrived, an egremont russett apple tree, he's been going on and on and on about one so the birthday fairy obliged. It's from Ken Muir and they send you this great book about fruit varieties and growing tips etc worth £8.99 apparently but really good.
So anyway we now have 3 apple trees a nectarine, a peach 2 pears a plum and a damson not to mention all the other fruit bushes and ornamental shrubs all packed into our tiny garden - I have a constant battle with him about planting the proper distances apart, but he just shoves them in anyway!

comping_cat

Hello,

Havnt done much recently, but today i planted out my sweetcorn seedlings, not sure if ive done it right, but ive had a go, and ive put some more in the pots in the kitchen, so hopefully i will have some more to sow next month.
I also noticed that my herbs that i planted have started to show - trouble is, i cant remember which are which, but hopefully i will once they are a bit bigger!!!!

Penelope_Penguin

catowen wrote: »

I also noticed that my herbs that i planted have started to show - trouble is, i cant remember which are which, but hopefully i will once they are a bit bigger!!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I do that too! Put things in the garden, with good intentions of going back later with a label, and invariably forget :mad:

DD and I planted some strawberry runners yesterday. We also bought new hanging baskets, pots, and some plants for them from the garden centre. We'll be planting them up later today.

Had what I hope is my final bonfire for a while, last night. Most of the twiggy stuff is now cleared, and I have a pile of ash for the fruit trees (it's full of potash, so great to promote fruit and flower). I now need to clear the larger branches, and stack the logs in my woodshed.

Lots to do in the polytunnel, too.

Have a Fabulous Weekend, Penny. x

nodwah

You're up early Pen!

I'm at the computer trying to study but it's too nice outside I have to go potter. I've an exam in a fortnight and have done seriously nothing, not just kid-on nothing! I wish it would rain!

Anyway more interestingly I sat and pricked out about a million alpine strwabs while watching Christines garden and Gardeners world last night, and I still have loads of little seedlings, What can I do? I don't want to kill the wee things?

Also planted up 2 hanging baskets with ordinary strawbs, now have to dig out the brackets, I know we've got some somewhere.

So today with any luck me and DH will finish the veg raised beds (he wouldn't let me do it this week while he was at w*** - he doesn't trust me to do what he wants) and finally get me spuds and leeks in.

Happy Saturday everyone.

Trishh_2

Morning everyone

Ive got toms, peppers, salad bowl, rocket,carrots, onions & spuds on the go. Also got basil, chives and some raspberries :j

I want to plant some cabbage ... just have to find space for it. Most things are in containers but I've put some extra spuds in a small raised bed I made, as well as some onions, chives & more lettuce.

Can't wait to see how it all turns out, as it's the first year I've grown veg, seriously :beer:

Lovely pics of all your gardens, btw!

KatrinaC_2

Morning everyone!

I've been away from the computer working in the garden for a bit. In the last two weeks I've finished clearing the vegetable garden and planted out all of the beans (runner, yellow french and broad), 20 cloves of garlic, 40 shallots and 70 onions, a row of salad leaves, a row of caulis, a row of spinach a row of early carrots, two raspberry canes, a black currant and two strawberry plants. Not to mention the planters containing herbs, some hostas, bulbs and repotting all of my specimin plants in tubs. (Oh, and repelling rodents which have nested in my compost bins) Phew!:j

Still to go - sweetcorn, squashes, broccoli (the last sowings rotted) tomatoes, potatoes and late carrots.

Oh, and in the middle of all of that I went to visit my parents for the Easter weekend and had a tour around the Alnwick Gardens in Northumberland...

Jobs for today? Sow my corn and squashes under glass and sweet peas in the borders. I want to mow and edge the lawn but I'm going to a party tonight and I'm going to need a lot of time to soak the mud out of my hands!

What's everyone else up to today?

Kat

hex2

ds1 now refuses to wee anywhere other than the compost heap - not sure quite how I explain that one at nursery.

I got a lot of things potted on yesterday, and some bulbs, including eucomis bicolor, and some allium hair that should have been planted months ago. I also planted the woodland bed in the front with lots of helebores and cyclamen kindly provided by my ever generous dad. Planted the first peas out, not sure if this is a bit early though.

Today OH has been building the arbour for the front, so I have been rather restricted in what I can do. Weeded and mulched one of the borders, dug some manure into the pumpkin/squash bed and banked up the potatoes in case of a frost. The azaleas are just starting to flower, I must have 20 of them, sadly all a bright shade of cerise. They must be easy to propogate or something?

Penelope_Penguin

Morning. Just come in for breakfast - been out since just after 6

Katrina - very envious of your trip to Alnwick gardens. My father's family comes from there - they were all Freemen of the town. Our generation is all girls, so it's died out. Would love to be one myself, or pass it to my DS.

Pics from yesterday:

Firstly potatoes and peas in the tunnel



And then DD's hanging baskets




What's everyone else doing?

Penny. x