What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

These are more reailstic photos. on a different setting.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Seeded Wild Columbine, Stout Blue-eyed Grass, Cardinal Flower, and Partridge Pea today. We're getting snow tomorrow so I wanted to get the seed down now for the snow to cover it.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Harvested the first spinach and tender beet greens by way of thinning the beets. Put out some borax because I have carrots coming up, finally. I felt like I threw a carrot party and nobody came for a while there. I noticed the japanese maples have shown some color finally.

 

[Sean Regan]

These are the two wisterias I stripped of dying leaves yesterday.

They'll get a proper prune between Christmas and New Year.,
For me wisteria pruning goes on for most of summer and autumn, as they are like a weed, they want to do their own thing. They'll constantly throw out new shoots all the time, particularly near the base. It's important if you want them to grow lengthwise to remove these, so the energy of the plant goes where you want it to.


Our two acer palmatums are looking a bit sorry as they always.do at this time of the year. I removed a few more dead leaves. There'll be a lot of dead wood to prune off under the new top growth. But I'll leave it until the spring. Sometimes a branch will look "dead," they go grey or white, but in the spring it might produce some new shoots at the tip. at the same time I'll prune off any new growth that is untrainable.

Our rhodos looked a bit sorry for themselves a month back with some yellowing leaves underneath the new top growth. But as usual these fall off and the rest of the plants look extremely healthy with lots of fat flower buds.

I fillled the green bin with fallen leaves again, mostly from next door's trees, despite the prevailing wind blowing most their side.

 

[DeborahJane]

Cleaned and sharpened all my secateurs. What heaven....a basket of sharp gardening implements. I soaked them in soapy water. Dried them, used a scourer to clean off rust and dirt, sharpened and sprayed with WD40. What method do you guys use? I'd love to know how to improve.

 

[DeborahJane]

Had some holes drilled in the bottom of this teapot I bought from Bali a long, long time ago. Was never successful as a teapot and love it as a pot.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Cleaned and sharpened all my secateurs. What heaven....a basket of sharp gardening implements. I soaked them in soapy water. Dried them, used a scourer to clean off rust and dirt, sharpened and sprayed with WD40. What method do you guys use? I'd love to know how to improve.View attachment 47352

I use spray silicone a lot, it is not as oily after a bit, and it slows rust and lubricates also, as most have some teflon mixed into the silicone. And the rubber handles and plastic prefer silicones to some solvents.

 

[Logan]

This afternoon pruned out the fruiting canes on a blackberry and tied the new ones in.

 

[DirtMechanic]

These are the two wisterias I stripped of dying leaves yesterday.

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They'll get a proper prune between Christmas and New Year.,
For me wisteria pruning goes on for most of summer and autumn, as they are like a weed, they want to do their own thing. They'll constantly throw out new shoots all the time, particularly near the base. It's important if you want them to grow lengthwise to remove these, so the energy of the plant goes where you want it to.


Our two acer palmatums are looking a bit sorry as they always.do at this time of the year. I removed a few more dead leaves. There'll be a lot of dead wood to prune off under the new top growth. But I'll leave it until the spring. Sometimes a branch will look "dead," they go grey or white, but in the spring it might produce some new shoots at the tip. at the same time I'll prune off any new growth that is untrainable.

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Our rhodos looked a bit sorry for themselves a month back with some yellowing leaves underneath the new top growth. But as usual these fall off and the rest of the plants look extremely healthy with lots of fat flower buds.

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I fillled the green bin with fallen leaves again, mostly from next door's trees, despite the prevailing wind blowing most their side.

I am guessing that shaping the rhodo helps them bush out? I never have touched ours, or much around the house, and I notice with the shade of our forest they are leggy, plus it may be the nature of the plant?

 

[DirtMechanic]

This afternoon pruned out the fruiting canes on a blackberry and tied the new ones in.

Already? I have not gotten to the blackberries yet. Too many leaves to pick up and compost yet to start all that, and then it rained

 

[Sean Regan]

I am guessing that shaping the rhodo helps them bush out? I never have touched ours, or much around the house, and I notice with the shade of our forest they are leggy, plus it may be the nature of the plant?

The big one I wired last year containing it and removed a couple of low branches to stop it spreading and overpowering the one to its right. That one has has sine come on quite nicely. We'll get another to go in front of the big one to close the gap.

 

[DeborahJane]

I use spray silicone a lot, it is not as oily after a bit, and it slows rust and lubricates also, as most have some teflon mixed into the silicone. And the rubber handles and plastic prefer silicones to some solvents.

Thanks DirtMechanic . Spray silicone is on my shopping list

 

[DeborahJane]

Trimmed my parterre. Hard on the back so 3 sessions, afternoon, following morning, rest and then that afternoon. Now I need to do final trim, edges and mulch.

 

[Sheal]

It's looking good DeborahJane.

 

[Logan]

Didn't do any gardening, just fed the birds and watched them for a while. There seems to be more blue tits this year.