What have you done in the garden today? Part 7

[Jimmyneutronsforehead]

Continuation thread from MereDint's previous threads.

I shall eat the accidental carrot and report back. But I’d better not tell XDH, he’ll be asking for it back. (Back story: we split up three years ago, DCs and I moved out, house was put on the market but didn’t sell, price was reduced and then I was able to buy him out, so we moved back in. So it’s my garden now, and therefore my carrot.)

It'd make a lovely snack dipped in some hummous

@Jimmyneutronsforehead funnily enough I came across this guy today as he is talking about hanging baskets and I was thinking about when I need to get them going for the summer. The guy talks a lot of decent sense about hanging baskets although I like the wildlife one too!

You could send your ex a photo without explaining ! Mine mine all mine!

My main problem with hanging baskets is that I'm very short and I forget to look up when I've got the hosepipe out. Then someone over 5 foot tall comes along and says "oh dear your hanging baskets are dead" and I say "oh, so they are"

My fencing had turned green in many places. I've sprayed the green with vinegar and boy they look new 😊

Did the fence today too but used anti-algae stuff that was very successful last year on the patio so sprayed it on the fence.
Also power washed the living crap out of everything, patio, patio furniture, fountain, all the paths, raised beds, gravel, plastic Keter shed etc, Power washed the garage door and front door/surround, and the bay window UPVC surround. Came up nicely. Neighbours must think I'm very odd
Hoovered my Buxus trees. It's the best way to get out all the old fallen leaves deep inside from last year and stops the fungal growth before it can start. Again, I'm sure I was getting some funny looks from the neighbours - there's that mad lady hoovering her plants again.
Re-laid 4 large sacks of garden gravel where it was getting thin - where does it all go?
Emptied all last years hanging baskets, relined them, refilled and replanted them, and changed all the chains to ones I made myself with stainless steel chain and carabiners - fed up of those nasty cheap chains rusting every year.

Did bit of pruning but it was getting dark!

Really want to hack away quite severely at a 14 foot high Red Robin Photinia bush that's also about 7 feet wide - it has severe leaf spot. But it also has about 20 Great Tits and Blue Tits living in it so I really can't do much with it, or even treat it with antifungal spray, I'm afraid of hurting the birds.

Tomorrow's job if weather holds out - more pruning.

Think I over did it today and will pay for it tomorrow no doubt. Didn't come in until 6pm ish and was out from 10.30 this morning. Had to make the best of a the first day in ages with little rain and no crazy wind!

As we're on page 40, I'll be making a new thread today, but it's my baby brothers 21st birthday today so we're off out for one of those Brazilian all you can eat buffets.

DS is on meltdown mode this morning, and seems to be in the early stages of developing some motor tics so if I don't get a chance before I go out, I will definitely make one afterwards.

I don't think the thread will fill up before then, but if it does will you leave me the last post so I can link to the new thread once it's up?

In the brief sunny interlude DH emptied my shed and de-cobwebbed it for me. I managed to repot some houseplants (once I found the compost I knew I had!) that were in dire need of more room and got rid of some rubbish.

Lots of pots to be washed, seeds to be sorted, and tools to be oiled, but those jobs will keep for another day. Once the sun went behind a cloud it was really chilly, but feel like I have made a start on the spring jobs.

He is now putting everything back so I have made him a cake 😄

@HootyMcBoobys my neighbours think I'm crazy too. I was dragging a bag of horticultural grit and it split so I felt I better sweep it all up as it had poured along the pavement.

New thread is here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/gardening/5497253-what-have-you-done-in-the-garden-today-part-8

Can we fill this one up to the top before we move over to the new thread please.

I've done no gardening today as I've filled up on too much food and now I feel like I can't move. Like those wobbly fat controller toys of the 90s.

Today I ate a hot cross bun in the garden. I'm looking forward to more days like this.

I moved some pots of red panolas off the front window ledge and replaced with grape hyacinths and purple/white violas

I bought some wild garlic in a pot and am thinking of cooking the leaves. Yum. And I planted lots of seeds: some cosmos, some tomatoes harvested from a good plant last autumn, some petunia, some sunflowers which my son helped me with and some chillis. Who knows what will grow. Probably nothing. But the hope, the hope!

I forgot to link this thread on the new thread and ask that we fill this one up over there so it seems like all the action is going on over there.

Silly me, I've started enough threads to know better.

Tomorrow's job while the sprog is at school if he even gets there is the blackberries. I have seen some ladybirds on them so I'm going to put on my gloves and pretend I'm Monty Don and surely Monty isn't scared of ladybirds.

Well it certainly isn’t warm, there is a chilly wind, but it isn’t raining and the sun is out so I’m planning on a little foray into the shed.
Might bring my box of seeds in and give them a sort while having a cuppa then write a plan. Some of them are quite old so I may test sow some indoors and bin the ones that don’t germinate.
Going to a friend’s house for coffee later and will have to pass the garden centre so should sort the seeds first; then I can justify buying some new ones 😋

Buy now sort later is my motto.

I usually end up donating close to date seeds to the school allotment club.

Just filling up this thread with 'what has my cat done in the garden today'

Ooh what a lovely pussycat

Garden cats, to help fill the thread up 🙂

The tulips are getting ready.

Lovely day. I couldn't possibly wash the patio.

Horrible day here. Raining again. Have been trekking round a local cemetery knee deep in mud.
Keeping with the pet theme, here are some snowdrops from a few weeks ago that come up every year in my Mum’s where we buried our dog.

Gorgeous day down here on the south coast. I had my arthritis steroid injection this morning, was so looking forward to it, hand has been so painful at times for about two months, so I have just done a little bit of light pruning and picking a few weeds here and there.

I did buy in Aldi earlier an aubretia plant, nice and healthy and £1.89 I think it was. I wont put that into the garden for a couple of days, i'll give the hand a day or two more before I start doing more gardening.

Is that cat doing what I think it's doing? 😂