What have you done in the garden today? Part 7

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Continuation thread from MereDint's previous threads.

My plant pot wheels came. They were self assembly which was a PITA but I did it.

I'd already made my tree trellis last week so all I needed to do today was throw it all in a pot.

Well... 😂

I assumed my wisteria would be as long as that guys from the tiktok video on the last thread. I was really wrong.

I also gave it an early prune because the wind had knocked all the flowers off anyway.

Different mosses.loe.dofferent substrates, so putting pavement moss on soil might not work terribly well. Worth a try though, as it's free.

Picked and ate some redcurrants and yellow raspberries. Are anyone else's raspberries a bit meh this year? Not getting much sweetness.

Currently watching Chelsea FS and Gardener's World in the hope I'll learn something that'll make my garden look more structured and less "let's have it all'.
My problem. Went to garden tour of 'Le Manoir au Quat Saisons' (not my normal habitat!) and lovely garden is only calming pale pink, silver, blue white. Plus edibles for kitchen (of course). So I only have green, silver, blue and white (and a bit of yellow as I don't like pink in general). Garden does look much better, and saves a fortune at garden centres/shows as it may be the loveliest flower ever, but if not blue, white, silver or (at a stretch, yellow) I can't buy it.

I had 2 raspberries today fresh off the plant and they were alright. Every so often when I'm doing the strawberries I chuck the leftover ericaceous muck into the raspberries. I'm not sure it needs ericaceous muck though but it could be a soil pH problem if theyre not very sweet.

Golden raspberries have only just blossomed for me.

My raspberries are nowhere near ready. Redcurrants are just beginning though.
we’ve done no mow May, and I never got round to prepping my sunny border this spring, so the whole south side of my garden is a tangled mess, and the overblown look is exacerbated by the spider mites in the apple trees. . But I strimmed and then weeded the first 10 ft and the difference is amazing. I have some carnations and cosmos to fill the gaps. I’m really pleased with myself. Someone upthread wrote about how gardening helped them when their dog died. We got a pretty grim prognosis for our little old rescue beagle today, and I just threw myself out there while I processed it. And it has helped.

@Zebracat sorry to hear that about your beagle. It really did help me with my dog after she had gone, sobbing into the borders whilst I weeded.

I've not done much actual gardening plant stuff the past few days, I have been busy painting our house. Thankfully the upper half, though hideous, is tiled so I don't need to try and go up tall ladders, which would not be happening. I have also painted the worn woodwork around the front door and it looks so much better even after one coat.

I thought I'd lost a lot of my seedlings in the greenhouse as they'd overheated and dried up, but a good drink last night and again today has really helped. I now need to plant up the plants into the borders and pots so I can get the melon and cucumber into the ground in the greenhouse. I have loads of zinnias, some cosmos has survived being planted in a rough concrete pot a week or so ago so I will risk planting some more out into the borders. I can't remember what else is ready to go out now...sunflowers! That was another plant that needs to go out into the borders. I have some salvias grown from cuttings which have taken very well, one is purple in the front garden which I want to bring round to the back and then planted up two hot lips into the front, and I thought in front of some jasmines would look nice and bright.
Ive grown strawflowers for the first time and they are very interesting. It's weird the flower coming up dried! I remember my aunt had a load in her garden when I was little and I liked them back then. I'm hoping to use the flowers for some Christmas decorations.
I do have some night scented stock, gypsophila and Chinese asters to go somewhere too.

I have just discovered this thread. Some of you have given me a good laugh. It’s interesting to see I’m not the only one who gardens by instinct. I like to grow things from cuttings and have been quite successful. My garden has come into its own this year and I’m chuffed. I too have a tendency to fall over ( weak knees ) looks like I’m in good company. Have just planted out runner beans and my autumn fruiting raspberries are looking strong. My mixed baby leaved lettuce have come up. The rocket I planted all bolted for some reason. Antirhinums and pansies all looking good as are the Aquilegias and Peonies.

Went into school to water our allotment, and check if Year Two’s sunflowers needed longer supports.
Flowers on all our tomato plants!

I love that your tomatoes are planted in reused tomato tins!

This year I donated some of my old strawberries to school as bare root plants. Not sure what they did with them though, I know they have an allotment but I dont know how often the younger kids get to use it.

It's going to be a very busy gardening weekend for me as the greenhouse is suddenly brimming over with fast-growing seedlings (zinnia, 6 varieties of sweet pea, 2 varieties of morning glory, lavatera, hollyhock, plus lots of different herbs to go in the herb garden by the kitchen window). I must get them out and planted on as we will be away next week and nobody available to do greenhouse watch. This time of year I'd be out from dawn til dusk if I could get away with it!

I have staging envy, @KingscoteStaff although I have steel staging I always wanted wood, but wasn't sure how well they would stay in good condition. They just look so nice!

Titivated the garden up the ying yang today until my energy ran out because I am hosting a garden lunch tomorrow. It didn't help that I had tons to plant out just to get them off the table (hardening off) and out of the way so I could start the titivating. It is ever thus.

DD came for a chat and we sat at the table I will be using for the lunch and she said "cat poo? I smell cat poo". Not ideal. We looked all over and gave up, then smelled it some more and finally found it on her shoe. Don't know where she stepped in it but I am hoping the lunch will smell like lunch not cat poo.

@longtompot . Thanks, I thought it was you, but was scared to get your name wrong. Such difficult things to deal with. The vet wants us to spend 900 pounds on more tests, which seems crazy as we don’t question the diagnosis, but then I think ,they might help us tailor his care so he doesn’t suffer. We’ve all got faces like wet weekends, he’s been such a sweet dog. However, doesnt make it easer when he pees in the kitchen in front of the open door!

We've just arrived at our caravan for the weekend so no gardening for me but there is a lovely little garden centre near by that I might treat myself to a look at.

Didn't bring any antihistamines because I've not needed them at home so assumed I'd be fine by the coast but so far I've scratched my eyes approximately 400 times, sneezed 20 times and only been here half an hour.

If anyone's been to Reighton nurseries will you let me know if its any good

Looked with despair at my DA roses that have been trashed by the wind. Such heavy flowers that have snapped branches. And then looked at the weather forecast - 4omph gusts for Sunday. What do I do! Bloody weather!
planted out the “spare” runner beans that were bought to replace mine that hadn’t germinated, which of course started growing the minute they saw the purchased beans… I’m the only one that likes beans, I’ve now got about 40 -plants growing, even the neighbours will be sick of beans!

Gosh, what news. That's a lot of money to drop all at once but I know what you mean when you say you don't want to question it. The things we'd do for our dogs.

It's been a few years now but our old girl suddenly became really unwell after a stay at the boarding kennels over Christmas and we spent nearly £2k on tests and treatments. By the time all the test results had come back she'd gone into multiple organ failure and we just knew it was time.

During our multiple visits to the vets we talked a lot about different things and one of those things was our mutual love of gardening. A short while later in the post they sent me her paw prints on a lovely card, and a packet of forget me not seeds with a little poem that cracked me to read. We decided to bury her favourite toy where she used to lay in the garden and sprinkle the seeds over the top.

He's such a beautiful boy and your garden is stunning. I bet he's many happy memories of being in the garden with you and your family.

Love this

A day of DIY here we have a long garage that goes along the garden and a rectangle behind it that we are making into a shed / lean to thing. So we have weather proofed it. It’s been painted and currently drying with a waterproof paint that means water can’t get in for 25 years but it can breathe.

Popped around to our new neighbour on the right (we are all new build gardens) to see how they are getting on with our massive garage wall and they had brought a water butt but weren’t sure how to fit it so my husband said we will fit it for them. They were delighted. When we waterproof or garage that makes up 1/2 of their garden we have said they can put up trellis etc and grow wisteria up it (not ivy though!!!). My wisteria brought last year has flowered. I brought another white one at the same time and we really thought we had lost it in the move and we only retrieved it two weeks ago and to our surprise it has started shooting green leaves so I’m so thrilled (picture of the flowering one and the one just bursting to life!). Picture also of waterproofed garage wall and my herb garden potted up the other day. Lovely plants in our local Asda I think they were £5 for 3. A good day. More painting tomorrow!

I’ve done some very serious gardening with my three year old nephew today. Hopefully it’s given him green fingers for life ❤️

This is lovely. I keep trying to get my neices into gardening but they are wild cards.

I said I've put some seeds on the side if you'd like to sprinkle some in the garden, they said yep, thank you aunty B. An hour later, "oh we've finished" so I said oh what did you plant. "We ate some apples and planted the seeds in the garden" I asked where did you plant those, and they just said can't remember.

So in place of lovely flowers popping up, I've got to be on apple tree lookout 😬

My nephew’s favourite part was running off to find the stones and sticks. I removed the lego Harry Potter fighting a dinosaur and the giant Killer whale from the water dish for the photos! I’ll put them back when he comes back to play. He categorically didn’t want to take the garden home 🤣.

The photo is our new potting shed, built for us by the charity Earth to Fork! We qualify because less than 20% of our pupils have any outside space at home.

Lots of strawberries ready for my gardening monitors to pick and carry round to the kitchen!

I spent the last few days seeing extended family that I hadn't seen for years. I bonded with my dad's cousin about gardening and he pulled up lots of plant samples for me 😆 So I've spent today planting them. Isn't it lovely inheriting plants 😊

That's both wonderful that there are charities out there that do this and sad that those kids don't have any outdoor space.

I'm really grateful and appreciating my privilege that even though we are and have always been dirt poor, we've always had access to a significantly large garden and that's a wealth that some can't claim to have. Might not always have been nice or tidy or grand and established with well pruned shrubs but it's something I suppose I take for granted far too often.