"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it."

greenbee

Solar pump is working. Compost, however is not retaining much water. 

Still more potting up of veg plants needed (I hope to get rid of quite a few toms to my mum and her friends, and a couple of friends over the next few days), and seeds need sowing. And lots of other stuff that I'd planned to do that hasn't happened.

However, I have wormed and flea-treated the cats, put up the fly screens on the doors, and just about kept up with the watering. And we roasted kale from the veg plot for supper this evening (must remember to pick it and eat it more often... daily would be good.

I currently have my mum staying, recovering from a minor op, so less is getting done, but she's having a lot of ideas about the garden! I may be able to take her home tomorrow if she feels up to it. If not, then Friday. She's mostly fine, just sleepy. 

Baileys_Babe

I like the idea of flying screens for the doors and windows, if you have the time could you post a link to the type you have and I can see how they work.

greenbee

I bought a couple of different kinds. This is one of them: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09WCX6XN6?th=1 

I've only actually used the door ones (velcro) as the window ones are magnetic and I haven't yet got round to doing anything about them. I'm not sure about putting them on the wooden window frames, particularly as the handles stick out. But I need to put them on the metal ones in the kitchen before the cats go demented. 

Baileys_Babe

Thanks, that is a great help. 

All our windows are wooden and like yours the handles stick out. So I will need to think how that will work.

greenbee

The velcro ones on the doors aren't a problem. I just haven't worked out the window ones, but will start on the metal framed windows in the kitchen. 

greenbee

Took my mum home this morning and she's already been to A&E and has antibiotics 🙄

Very, very tired after a busy week, so not as much done as I'd like, but my fleece bedspread has been washed and dried and is in the airing cupboard. I'll put the cotton one back on as it's got a bit warm lately. I've also washed a dog bed, and hoovered out the crate, and put a clean bed in. Dog bed needs to go on the washing line tomorrow.

It's been windy today, and slightly overcast, so not particularly nice for sitting around outside. However, I did manage to fill the garden waste bin with stuff the gardener chopped down just before he left yesterday (two forsythias that were a peculiar shape due to things growing round them that are no longer there have been cut down almost to the ground, and two cornelian cherries that were growing as trees in the wrong place but are sprouting from the bottom have been topped so can stay as shrubs), and have sowed my beans (dwarf beans, climbing french beans, runner beans, mangetout, runner beans) and squash (not sure the seed is viable).

I have no idea where all this is going to go... I've tried drawing a plan of the veg plot and so far I don't think it's all going to fit! And the salad is all in planters by the house. 

I need to empty two bedrooms and the bathroom for the decorator - and choose paint colours - as well as getting stuff done in the garden. I really need to feed all the trees and shrubs as well as sowing more seeds, topping up the empty veg beds with manure and compost, planting courgettes, potting up spare toms/aubergines/peppers/cucumbers to go outside somewhere, mowing, and finishing building the last raised beds...

Only 3 more gardening weekends until the garden is open to the public. And it's currently mostly full of weeds. 

greenbee

Fed the magnolia grandiflora and fruit trees.

Finished the half-built raised bed and adjusted the bed it was going onto so it fits (think this is going to be a courgette bed, so I should add manure and compost tomorrow). 

Built three more raised bed frames which will need weeding/cardboarding/filling (so I'll need to buy more compost and topsoil for them at some point). Cleared up all the packaging and put it in the bin. 

Dog wants to go for a walk. I want to go to sleep...

greenbee

Plan for today (regardless of what the dog thinks) is to get the wire up for the clematis (this will probably involve much swearing) and possibly feed the camellias and hydrangeas. I'm exhausted, so don't want to commit to more than that, although a bit of pottering and tidying wouldn't go amiss as I have the decorator arriving tomorrow at 8am and a neighbour coming to take up some paving slabs. 

In fact, I really do need to sort out paint colours... 

Watty1

Opening the garden to the public! My goodness that is brave.

greenbee

Watty1 said:

Opening the garden to the public! My goodness that is brave.

Or mad But it has motivated me to get stuff done. 

First lot of vine eyes is in. I'm having a rest, then I'll wire them all. Then I'll do the next lot. 

Weeds are happy after the rain yesterday, but there are also lots of self-seeded cosmos and nicotiana coming up which is good news (I'm growing more, obviously!). If I get round to digging the new beds this year I'll just fill them with annuals and then spend the autumn clearing out and moving things round and hopefully get a decent amount of stuff done using bare roots and bulbs.