What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

Not much today. Overcast and not as warm. Pruned off a few unwanted wisteria shoots. Checked all the roses for greenfly. Found none. Will give everything some water, later today.

This pink wisteria has never looked as good, more blooms yet to come out.

This wisteria "arbour" always looks attractive. There's more hanging white blooms to open.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Not a lot, cold and grey day. Made up a bucket with wood in the bottom then a nice mix of compost, manure, and a couple of old pots of earth and planted up another tomato, that's ten of them now. I still have a few more coming on, I'll probably give some away, but I'll still do a couple more, we can always bottle or freeze surplus, but it is a pain being short, and there is never a guarantee I won't lose any.
Hoed the garlic, looking good, a few brown leaves, but the earth is like concrete and really dry, don't want the weeds pinching what moisture there is, planted it around the beginning of September, should be ready soon. Also hoed around the broad beans and my new raspberries, and probably somewhere else.
Watered some selectively, really I would like to put a sprinkler on full time all day and just move it around, but it's amazing how green everything is and how it's coping, and it's not worth spraying a tenner's worth of water for a fiver's worth of veg. The price of water has just gone up again, really, it's not like they have to manufacture it, it falls out of the sky, and the reason the pipes are always breaking is because they are Victorian cast iron, ancient. I could go on, and frequently do, paying themselves bonuses for doing nothing!

 

[Meadowlark]

Started digging some Yukon Gold new potatoes today. With heavy rains predicted early next week, I wanted to make sure I got some harvested...a bird in the hand works for me!

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Just popped out and potted on an Alicante tomato I bought in Battle market yesterday. Now I have RAF, Money-maker, Ailsa Craig and Alicante, all of which I can save seed from. I also have a tomato I bought from the farm shop last year that was simply labelled 'Bush tomato', but the plants I have grown from seed saved from it are very disappointing so far, more than half have just fallen over and died. I also have a Black Russian someone gave me, that is also a rather miserable little plant, which is a bit of a disappointment as they sound great reading about them.

 

[Sean Regan]

Just general "garden housekeeping" today. Pruned off more wisteria unwanted growth, the same for the quinces on the side fence. Tied up more clematis growth and put some stick supports in one or two rose tubs. No trace of aphids, lily beetle or much black spot. Just one rose. I removed a few leaves and gave it a spray.

It's a quiet day, but might get a bit noisier a bit later. Our crescent has been closed off, because round the other side, they are having a VE Day anniversary celebration street party.
I was invited, but I turned it down, as I'd already been to a VE Day street party.

That was an "original one," back in 1945. I was only five, but I do remember it outside my parents' home in South London. There was cake, lemonade and jelly and custard. That made an impression on me. As other than basic food stuffs, such "luxuries" were very short at the time.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

We are down now at our other house I new bern, nc. Brought lots of plants with us. This place is too loaded with pine needles. Thankfully we do have a landscaper guy to help us.

 

[Sean Regan]

Didn't do much today, apart from making this video of our pink wisteria.

But whilst I was making it, I was reminded that I did need to do something with the gable end of the garage. The wood was rotting and really needed replacing.
My wife often accuses me of "looking for jobs," (as if she can't find me enough).

Anyway, I went to the wood yard at lunchtime and bought the wood.
Just a case of cutting it to size and sanding down the edges and corners. Plus, making a ferrule for where the two halves join in the middle. I got it all done and did a "dry run." Assembling it all. Then took it down and painted the backs of the bits.
I've golf, lunch, then shopping tomorrow, but I'll probably be able to put it all back up again and paint the front in situ. when I get home.