What I did today 2025

[Mark Rand]

Planted out sweet peas, kohl rabi and pak choi. Pruned the overwintered chillis. Emptied half of the junk that's been living in No 2 greenhouse since my workshop cellar got flooded in winter. Watered things and dead-headed daffs.

[Mark Rand]

Re-potted all of the overwintered chillis in 10" pots with a mixture of home compost, Lidl compost and slow release furtilizer. Did the same with a basil plant grown on from a cutting.
Finished emptying No2 greenhouse. Might be able to clean the glass tomorrow and get it ready for the year.

[Bren In Pots]

Emptied and pressure washed the GH this morning gave the borders a good soaking.

[Jungle Jane]

Mum was getting rid of some stuff in her garden in a skip,so I saved this large stone bowl (there’s another bowl with hole,attached to a pot for height that can be for plants). I got this solar floating fountain for about £5,no wiring easy & I put it in there & it works,I’m going to put it in the flower bed or on the patio,I might add some stones

[Andraste]

That's really lovely Jungle Jane

OH started digging the bed ready for spuds today while I started painting the bench. Deadheaded some dandelions we didn't have time to dig up.

Edit to add: put some garlic in a 2l bottle of water to stew ready for rary's recipe bug spray.

[Mark Rand]

Cleaned the glass of No2 greenhouse. It was really filthy!

[Bren In Pots]

Seed sowing then potted on basil and put some parsnips to chit.

[ameno]

A whole load of digging.
Potted up my sprouted cucumber seeds.
Sowed my beetroot, chard, and outdoor tomato seeds in pots.

[Mark Rand]

Sprinkled a good few handfuls of fertiliser (Poultry manure) around the flower beds and the Morello cherry tree, raked a fair number into the compost of the beds in No2 greenhouse. Then, not quite believing the Met office's predictions, gave the whole lot a really good soaking with the hose. The hellebores were drooping and the greenhouse beds needed it anyway.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my Tomatoes they're still living on windowsills overnight so I'm hoping this will be their final pots before being planted in the GH border.

[Andraste]

Made the tough but right decision to cut back then will remove my thornless blackberries and prickly loganberries/tayberries, (I never did know which they were). They are in the wrong place and get too out of control, I had planned to put up a frame for them but it never happened and I could do with the space for other things. I will replace them at some point in the future as the blackberry was delicious.

I then spotted a beautiful teardrop shaped long tailed tit nest in my very overgrown berberis. I have never seen one before, its a true work of art. I posted a pic in the wildlife photos thread, but it is very hard to see and the photo was really hard to take!

Cut back a wheelbarrow full of brambles, my god those things grow quick! Some were about 5m long and reaching for the stars!

Might be a bit late to mention it now but I've spent today making a list of things I'd like to do on our plot & one is to keep the spent canes from our tayberries/loganberries/raspberries this year to make a low wicket style fence to edge one of the beds. Something along these lines: https://lovelygreens.com/diy-garden-...spberry-canes/

[Peanut]

Might be a bit late to mention it now but I've spent today making a list of things I'd like to do on our plot & one is to keep the spent canes from our tayberries/loganberries/raspberries this year to make a low wicket style fence to edge one of the beds. Something along these lines: https://lovelygreens.com/diy-garden-...spberry-canes/

I like and follow Lovelygreens, she comes up with some fab little ideas. I do use old canes for all sorts of things but have never thought of that and must have missed that post, thanks!

[ameno]

Planted my maincrop potatoes.
Planted out my gutter of mangetout and my three surviving elephant garlic plants.

[Jungle Jane]

Potted on twenty eight tomato plants yesterday,there’s still about twenty left. Planted some anemone sylphide corms in a large clay pot,soaked them first.

[Peanut]

Hoe'd my new flowerbed, finally cut back the dogwood and buddleia. Repotted my clementine tree along with a little begonia which self seeded in the pot last year and is flowering its socks, now in its own pot.