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

Farway

redofromstart said:

Thanks Farway, I will move the pots to the front so it is easier to check them daily.

Mine are at the front, I can have a quick look for obvious ones just looking out the window

SuzeQStan

Thanks Farway - Think I’m going to give up on the affected lillies as I noticed too late and allow them to be the sacrificial lambs to my as yet seemingly undiscovered canna Tropicana 

greenbee

Did weeding yesterday. Still lots to do. Have one-and-a-bit garden waste bins to fill by Monday evening!

Cheery_Daff

I finally got out in the garden for a bit over the last couple of days. Our front lawn is just on an inch of soil over hardstanding, so it's now dry as a bone and mostly brown (it's fine, this happens usually at least once a year and it always comes back). I did lop the finished dandelion heads off with the scythe though, it was looking very scruffy even for me. 

Watered the pots by the patio.

Also finally admitted defeat with the greenhouse seeds and ditched the compost and sowed a load of new ones - not all redone yet. Not sure it was wise as I'm away for several days this week and they'll likely dry out but hey ho. Might have to do some direct sowing once we get to June or else I won't be growing anything this year 😬

greenbee

Have filled 3 water butts from the hose. Have to sort the hoses before I can fill the others and run the veg plot irrigation system and water the trees and hedging.

KajiKita

Blitzed the bindweed in the veggie beds yesterday and am focused on ornamentals today. 

So far I have tidied, potted on, watered or binned everything in the conservatory. After a cuppa it will be time to be getting on with potting up the patio pots 😊 Everything for the patio pots is have a good drink in a huge tray I have covered the little round table with! 😂 The two pink geraniums are saved from last year 😊👏

KK

greenbee

One border now completely weeded (I expect the next lot of weeds have started filling the space already), and cosmos shoved in the gaps and watered. There's a very shallow dry spot which is where there used to be paving and the plants there are starting to show signs of struggling, so I'll need to get a sprinkler back on it as soon as the new pack of hose connectors arrives (hopefully tomorrow!). 

Soaker hose has been set up in the strawberry bed, so hopefully that will start to look a bit happier soon (it runs off a network of hoses in the veg plot). I may need to get some more soaker hose for a couple of new small beds, and possibly to run through the rhubarb and fruit bushes, which I keep forgetting to water. 

Haven't watered the hedges/trees/shrubs, so that's a job for tomorrow.

I have, however, finally sowed beetroot, chard, and asparagus peas. 

Only one garden waste bin is almost full despite all the weeding, so I need to think what I can usefully to that would fill the other one - after all, I'm paying for it! There's bound to be something that needs hacking back pruning.

ajmoney

I have been away for a few days with work, looks like the weeds have moved in while I have been away  going to try and adopt a little and often approach to the weeding so I don't get too overwhelmed by it.

greenbee

I've got a delivery slot 7am-7pm today, so have been out and watered the trees (not the hedge, waiting for hose bits for that), fed the roses and weeded round the one rose that was here when I moved in - which is planted by the washing line pole, with an obelisk round it (it's a shrub rose, not a climber), in the middle of the grass. Managed to get some nettle roots out and have dug in some well-rotted manure. The soil was rock hard, then turned to dust, but the rose is thriving so there must be something good deeper down!

This means one garden waste bin is now full, so I need to swap it for the other one and try to at least get something in there before tomorrow's collection. 

kazwookie

Roses and fruit trees have been watered, I'm not watering anything else,  of the 3 water butts, one is empty the others are very lower but still going for now.

Plus yesterday I have a brain wave, I have managed to work out where I can sit an IBC tank, it means a suffle round of the shed, which I going to have to replace in a few years time anyway, but I think it would work, guttering would need to be attached to the summer house to run off into it. Wanders off to find a cheap tank.