What I did today 2026

[Mark Rand]

Put the gazanias and bellis out to harden off.
Weeded 3/4 of the back garden flower beds.
Might finish those off if the morning is rain-free.

[Sweet savory]

Yesterday emptied a compost bin and mulched fruit bushes. Today raining so potting up chitted mangetout peas and putting DFB to chit for plant sale next month. The yellow DFB that I’m not so keen on!

[Jungle Jane]

I’ve just been planting the first lot of potatoes,two bags of sharpes express,two containers of charlottes & one bag of nicola. Did a little bit of weeding. I bought a bag of jacks magic the other day for indoor sowing,the rocket grow MPC has little flies in it,maybe because it isn't properly rotted down,clumps of grass in it maybe mixed with manure,I don’t know. I was potting my peppers in the rocket grow outside the other day & they were flying about so I’m using the jacks magic for seeds that I’m starting indoors like sweetcorn,courgette,melon,beans & squash.

[Peanut]

Finally finished shredding my huge piles of pyracantha, berberis and laurel prunings. I still have two more piles of laurel to go, but no more prickly bits! Hoorah

[Peanut]

Finished all my shredding. (There is another huge pile of laurel and yew right at the end of the garden but it is hidden from sight and I have no more room for any more shreddings!)
The next time I post here I will hopefully have done something of interest!

[Andraste]

Bit the bullet & moved the toms & cucs into the blow away - can always bring them back in if we get a cold night - getting pretty full in there now

[Peanut]

Painted weedkiller onto the brambles.
Watered the onion bed.
Weeded the blueberry pots then top dressed and watered them.
Watered all the other pots.

[Containergardener]

What weedkiller do you use ? Does it work?

[Peanut]

What weedkiller do you use ? Does it work?

I use glyphosate, the strong stuff that you dilute. Yes it works a treat.

[Mark Rand]

Triclopyr as used in SBK brushwood killer is also very effective on brambles, but it won't kill grasses.

Did the neighbour's back garden with it when I got fed up with the brambles coming through to ours.

[Andraste]

Dug the spud trenches, bit of weeding & shed tidying, sowed some spring onions, put the canes up ready for CFBs so I know how much room to leave when the broadies go in (probably next week).

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I did the front weeding & cut some nettles on a tray,today I made two bottles of nettle fertiliser. Watered the onions & garlic in the ground & the carrots in a container that’ll flower this year.

[Containergardener]

Moved some overwintering pots from gh finally (frost again last night)
Moved sweetpeas outside to staging
Potted on some parsley
Pottered about and enjoyed it

OH cut the grass ( I can't start the mower)🤣

[Mark Rand]

Planted the sweet peas and nemisia in the back garden.
Put up some netting for the peas to climb up in the greenhouse.
Fed (chicken manure) and watered the greenhouse beds ready for planting the tomatoes.

Should have done more, but every little helps.

[Vince G]

At home: planted up 2 hanging baskets with petunia, lobelia and antirrhinum. Pricked out basil.

At the lottie: sowed scorzonera, salsify, 4 varieties of lettuce, radishes and spring onions and tropea onion. Earthed up early potatoes again as they've poked through my initial ridges. Disconnected polytunnel watering tubes and drippers fro the pump to bring home for cleaning - will soak in white vinegar solution