What did you do in your garden today?

[Logan]

I have problems with cats, they get under the side gate have to have the space so that the hedgehogs can get in.So in the morning i block it off with a few house bricks but have to remember to move them in the evening.

 

[Amateur Gardener]

Cutting down several Weeping Willow trees. It's interfering with the power lines.

 

[Sheal]

Tetters and I finished the polytunnel

Is that a grapevine waiting to be planted @zigs ?

 

[Sean Regan]

I went back to Aldi on Friday to see if I could some more cyclamen. But as I suspected, they'd sold out. Plants aren't a "running line" for them, so they get one delivery and that's it. Actually there were only 4 for £2.99, not six. Wilko didn't have any and I couldn't be bothered to go to a garden centre to look for more, which would have been expensive anyway. But shopping in the village this morning I found some more in the hardware/DIY shop and bought two trays of six for £4.99 each.

So I've arranged them, alternate pink and white around the base of our big acer palmatum.

Those left over I added to our cyclamen bed below the kitchen window. Most of these we brought back from a garden centre in Cornwall when we were on holiday, over ten years ago and they've spread. Plus there's a couple that came as presents last month from friends for my wife's birthday.

The roll of wire came yesterday and I've put it in. It was a bit of a struggle with the overhanging azaleas, so some pruning was necessary. I prune them every year anyway, as they branch out over the patio. I'll use wires to bend a few branches to fill up that bit of a gap on the right. Once they've "re-set" I'll remove the wire later next year.

This should stop any cats when they hide in the azaleas from darting out and attacking the birds and the squirrel. I made it a "dogleg" around the end of the azalea bed before the rockery, right up to the fence, so cats will have difficulty getting in there. I had some green sturdy plant "canes" to stiffen the wire in places as it's quite pliable. Like the wire fence, you can hardly see them.

 

[zigs]

Is that a grapevine waiting to be planted @zigs ?

Yep, gonna plant the roots on the outside and train the vine on the north inside of the tunnel

 

[Sheal]

Good idea. I had one years ago planted the same way in a greenhouse.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Cut grass, burned some leaves. later will burn the big wood pile. Making way for a back hoe to come in and organized another area of the garden. always work in progress. have to prune something. nice chilly weather here today.

 

[Logan]

Cut back the michaelmas daisies and dug up one of the clumps, going to plant verbascum and cosmos in it's place, but for now going to plant tulips and wallflowers there.

 

[Sean Regan]

Gave the lollypop tree in the front garden a trim as I do every year. Filled the green bin with what either has fallen off in a week, or I cut off today.

Doesn't look much different, but I took off up to a foot all the way round, with my Barnel telescopic pruner.

It isn't perfectly symetrical yet, as it's quite a tiring job. I'll do I bit more later in the week.

Still some colour in the garden, other than green.

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These acer palmatums sometimes go a "firey red" at this time of the year. They might develop more of this colour for a while yet. Some years the frost gets them before they change colour.

Last year's Christmas roses that came in a 4" pot are still going strong. Not sure they'll last until this Christmas.

 

[Sean Regan]

The replacement curtains for our front bedroom arrived yesterday, it was a pain swopping them over as, they are pencvil pleat so there was newarly 200 hooks to swop over. The supplier didn't want the faulty ones back, so with other stuff I took them down the tip. But not before I'd cut out the thermal linings.

I'd used the old thermal curtains to put over the bubble wrap behind the tea-house doors.

But that meant if I shut a door it was completely dark in there. So I ripped them off and replaced them today with the lining material from one curtain.

So now there does get a bit of light in there when the door is closed, wihout having to turn on the five ceiling downlighters.

 

[Leigh2020]

I bought my first composting temp meter, so now I can monitor my temperature throughout the breakdown process... YES!

 

[Leigh2020]

Compost sieving for me too.......boy do my arms ache ouch, ouch !!

O oh sorry, I feel your pain..

 

[Leigh2020]

Put these round mine, need to get some fleece to put over the top.View attachment 19215

Like the simple setup

 

[Tetters]

I bought my first composting temp meter, so now I can monitor my temperature throughout the breakdown process... YES!

Hello @Leigh2020 - nearly missed you sneaking round the corner. Welcome to the forum

I bought my first composting temp meter, so now I can monitor my temperature throughout the breakdown process... YES!

I have nothing to do with making compost here - the last time I tried, I just encouraged a ruddy great ants nest. I think @zigs monitors his compost heap by poking his finger in it

 

[Logan]

Hello @Leigh2020 welcome to the forum