GreenFly - A 'flylady style' gardening thread with weekly tasks to tame your garden

KajiKita

Nowhere near as much progress as I hoped, but some, which is excellent for a Friday evening! 😊
There are various ‘treasures’ I am unearthing as I work through this bed, but there are also some clumpy things that are so grass infested I might just give up on them … 🤷‍♀️

Thanks @Cherryfudge 😊 I inherited them when we bought the place. I used to dislike them when they were partnered with a staggeringly ugly, blue-grey, violently yellow pea kind of plant, but now that’s all gone and the poppies have softer colours around them I am appreciating them more. 

@redofromstart, did you see that this thread is on the headlines of ‘quick links’? 😊👏🥳🎉

KK

leftatthetrafficlights

I'm definitely in on this! 😁

Although I may not be starting immediately due to the weather being horrendous here! 😳 

redofromstart

Morning everyone. Lovely to see so many people joining in.

weeding - it has rained fairly solidly here so very little done all week but has stopped today so I should get time to fill the green waste bins. I'm drowning in sticky weed.

veg - need to check what type of tomatoes I have and see if I need to be pinching out shoots. Check the broad beans for black fly and pinch out the tips if need be.  Hoe off the latest weedlings. Plant out the celeriac etc. curse the slugs and plant out the last two surviving courgettes.

pretty bits - 30 garden ready dianthus arrived yesterday so I need to either water them and pot on or plant them out. Which means a clean up and integration of the excavated soil in the stone circle bed. I think it's mostly creeping buttercup roots and the inevitable sticky weed inbetween a gazillion dormant snowdrop bulbs.

first job is allergy tablets and then my garden gauntlets. I really react to sticky weed which is irritating in both senses.

twopenny

Kita the purple pea bits may be perennial Sweet Pea.

No fragarance and need to be somewhere they're not going to be moved.

They don't have fragarance but give colour and vases of flowers when everything else is July Gap.

KajiKita

twopenny said:

Kita the purple pea bits may be perennial Sweet Pea.

No fragarance and need to be somewhere they're not going to be moved.

They don't have fragarance but give colour and vases of flowers when everything else is July Gap.

They were yellow, violently so! 😂
I did try growing perennial sweetpea from seed once but it died in its first winter here 🤷‍♀️

KK

ArbitraryRandom

KK I second (third?) the admiration for the poppies. You've done a decent bit of work there I think. I hope the takeaway was good  

Redo (or should I call you Hex?) I am another rattling with pills today. I'm normally earlier in the season with the tree pollen, but I think it's been so damp this year it's not been a problem until this week! 

Chores today as per yesterday. Bindweed patrol and worrying about rosemary top of the list. Don't think I'll water today, but might water and feed tomorrow. 

Cherryfudge

KajiKita said:

They were yellow, violently so! 😂

Yellow vetchling? Broom?

They sound quite aggressive.

My garden tasks for today are 15 minutes weeding and 15 fighting the overgrowth on some shrubs.

redofromstart

Tomatoes - did my checking and marmande are 'pinch out the tops once the first few trusses have set if you want to', roma and romello are no prune so that is fairly simple.  Need to get some further support in and actually remember to water them consistently as they are in the greenhouse.  The greenhouse has some mining bees in at the moment and I am trying not to disturb them.

@ArbitraryRandom lol, yes that is the reference but generally called Redo for short. 

Perennial sweetpea didn't do very well here either @kajiita, I had a patch (it either came with the house or my Dad gave me some) but it died out after a few years.  Shame because it was useful as @twopenny says.

greenbee

At least it's Not Raining today. Very windy still though.

After a busy and stressful week I was hoping for a gardening day, but I'm feeling pretty worn out. However, the greenhouse has been watered, a barrow-load of compost taken down there for when I'm feeling up to doing some more work there, the strimmer located and battery put on charge (I need to strim some grass and pull some weeds to make a bed for climbing squash), and a few random weeds pulled up as I passed them. I'm not expecting to get much more done today, but I'm hoping that I'll make progress tomorrow. 

@ArbitraryRandom - if you can grow your bindweed up a bamboo/stick and then paint it with weedkiller and cover with a plastic bag/cling film, you should find that it kills the root. It's just hard letting it grow enough to be able to kill it! I'm currently fighting creeping buttercup - weedkilling outside the beds (when it is dry enough to make it worthwhile)  and pull the new growth off inside them. 

@Cherryfudge - I found persistence worked with ground elder. Keeping cutting it back/digging it out/poisoning it depending on location, and eventually it gave up. 

ajmoney

Wow, I need this thread. I will probably do my own thing as and when I can as I don't always have a huge amount of spare time but somewhere to be accountable would be good.

I have just come in from 30 minutes in the garden, deadheading the roses that have finished and pulling up weeds in the immediate area in front of the kitchen.

I have quite a large garden which, in essence should be easy to keep on top of (when I get there) but I often get overwhelmed by it and end up doing nothing. I went out for a short time earlier because I know it isn't long but can make a huge difference.

By the end of Friday I would like to have cut the grass (this needs to be before Wednesday and the rain) and refresh the pots on my patio as they are full of weeds and I would like some colour. I will try and remember to take some photos. I am great at taking after but don't always remember the before ones.