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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 3, 2020 21:01:08 GMT
Today I have just done some more planting in my front garden and in my tubs. Hope to finish the front garden tomorrow.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 4, 2020 21:26:33 GMT
This morning and this evening I have finished planting the front garden. It had rained overnight but the soil is still dry underneath so I had to give the plants a good watering. After going for a walk this afternoon I went to the allotment. The water butts needed filling again. While they were filling up I finished forking over the annual beds.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 5, 2020 21:29:59 GMT
Had this morning on the allotment. There are four containers in front of the cabin where we hold our meetings and I am going to plant them up again as I did last year. I replaced most of the compost but hadn't enough so I will get some more tomorrow. I then raked the annual beds , breaking up the soil and got them ready for planting. I also did some weeding on the annual beds. I wrote in last weeks Garden News that I had a weed free allotment. I did have when I wrote that but I knew they would come back again which they are doing. Not a lot yet but I want to get them out while they are small. This afternoon I planted some more of my tubs and began dismantling my aluminium frames .I take three of these frames to the allotment to grow carrots in and I took the first one this morning. Went to school this evening. Removed the side shoots from the tomatoes first and filled a bucket twice with them because I hadn't been for two weeks .I then made a structure of 10 canes for runner beans and planted them. I also planted 4 climbing French beans and 2 sprouts.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 6, 2020 21:13:22 GMT
We have had heavy showers and sunny intervals today. Between the showers this afternoon I finished dismantling the three remaining aluminium frames and put them away behind the greenhouse till next year. I have six aluminium frames and as I told you before the other three go to the allotment for me to grow carrots in. I still have two to take there. While it was raining I went in the greenhouse and potted sixtyodd rooted surfinia cuttings into small yoghurt pots. These will be for mother plants for next year. It was fine this evening so I went on the allotment. I put more compost in the communal containers and planted them with begonias, lobelia, gazanias ,pelargoniums and petunias. I then reduced the shallots to three per clump and then started planting the annual beds. Put a row of cosmos and a row of Nicotiana sylvestris at the back of each of the two beds because these will be the tallest plants I will be planting.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 7, 2020 21:52:39 GMT
It has not rained today so I have got quite a lot done. I have finished planting my tubs and some for somebody else. Also one for next door and I have planted some plants in their garden. I still have some tubs to plant for somebody else. My larger greenhouse has shelves all round which in the spring are full of plants. I have always grown a tomato plant on each side of the door. I still had four spare tomato plants which I wasn't sure what to do with. I decided that I could manage without the shelves on one side of the greenhouse so I removed them and potted these plants into large pots and grow them on the side where the shelves had been. I can still put other plants between them . The border along one side of the back lawn has been covered with boxes of plants the last few weeks but, of course, this border needed planting. I put all these boxes of plants on the spare ground in front of the shed where the frames had been. I forked over the border and raked in some fish, blood and bone. I then planted 12 dahlias along the back, then a row of sunflowers, then a row of antirrhinums. Hope to finish planting it tomorrow . There is room for more plants at the front. I can't plant the border on the other side of the lawn yet because the two frames are still on it which I am going to take to the allotment.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 8, 2020 21:34:13 GMT
Another fine day. For several years I have planted some containers and done some hanging baskets for an elderly couple (Ken and Vera) who lived not far away. I phoned about a week ago asking if they wanted them doing again. Ken told me that Vera died last November but said he would still like them doing. So I went this morning and took some compost for his containers .He also said he wanted some bricks in the bottom of his tubs because they blew over last year. Last time I went to the allotments I found some large stones and lumps of concrete that I could use. I emptied the tubs and put them in but I hadn't quite enough compost to fill all his containers. He also gave me three baskets to plant but they hadn't got liners. So I went to the hut this afternoo for some liners and another bag of compost.I brought his baskets home. When I have planted these I will go again and take them and some more compost and plant up all his containers. This afternoon I also finished planting the border I was doing yesterday. This evening I went to the allotment and took another of the frames.I did some more planting on the annual beds.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 9, 2020 21:23:44 GMT
Went to my son, Martyn's this morning. I had got part of his garden ready for planting last week. I planted five dahlias along a fence which is all there is room for. He had bought an obelisk and I took some sweet peas to plant to climb up it. I had to fix the obelisk up first which was a fiddly job and took a long time. I then started raking the rest of his garden getting it ready for planting but didn't get time to finish it. Went on the allotment this afternoon. Took the remaining frame. I finished planting the annual beds. Planted some love lies bleeding, more antirrhinums and calendulas and some stocks. This evening I got the border on the opposite side of the back lawn from the one that I had planted ready for planting. As I have just said , the frame that was on it has been taken to the allotment. The bird table was also on this border so I put it away till winter. There were still a few boxes of plants on it so I put them with the others. So, when the border was empty I forked it over and raked in some fish, blood and bone. Didn't do any planting on it but I planted a ball of begonias.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 10, 2020 21:52:42 GMT
I have spent all day and evening today planting hanging baskets but still haven't finished them, 36 altogether. I have 12 and the rest are for friends and neighbours. I hadn't enough trailing lobelia so I went for some more from someone on the allotment. I ran short of compost again so I had to go to the hut for two more bags.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 11, 2020 20:52:26 GMT
I almost finished the hanging baskets but I was short of a few plants, particularly for my own because I wanted to get other peoples done first. I went to our local garden centre but all they had were yellow trailing begonias but I got 15 of the. This evening I delivered some baskets and tubs that I had planted to a friend and called at the B and M store and got some calibracoas, salvias and geraniums. I also bought a new wheelbarrow because I only have one with no wheel. I use this one for washing large pots and seed trays but I could do with one for use on the allotment.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 12, 2020 19:58:41 GMT
This morning I finished doing my hanging baskets with the plants I bought yesterday but I usually put 4 baskets under the car port and I have only enough plants for 2.I have managed to do 4 pouches which hang on the front wall and on the shed. I told you about Ken who I do baskets and tubs for. I had done his baskets and I went this afternoon and took them and planted his tubs. It is very windy today and the chrysanths needed tying up so I did them when I got home. I should have done them before because some were bending over and some had bent stems. There are two laterals on each plant to give me two flowers .I don't normally put a cane on each lateral . I just put string round the whole plant but if the laterals are bent , I put a cane on each one with two or three ties to straighten them up. This evening I began planting the border that I got ready the other day.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 13, 2020 21:25:14 GMT
I said yesterday that there were two baskets that I normally do that I hadn't enough plants for. This morning I decided that I wanted them doing so I got some more plants from a friend and planted them up. I also potted 24 parsley plants from cell trays into three and a half inch pots. This afternoon we have been for our walk round Blackleach Country Park. Been to school this evening and put more ties on the tomatoes and fed them for the first time. I also weeded the veg beds again but there weren't many weeds.
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 14, 2020 20:24:57 GMT
Today I finished planting the border I started on Friday. So all the planting at home is done now. I still have Martyn's garden to plant, hopefully next Wednesday, and some at Blackleach but this border still needs forking over . This is the border I planted last week
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 14, 2020 20:26:52 GMT
These are the two baskets I planted yesterday
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 14, 2020 20:29:08 GMT
Containers under the car port
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Post by derekbrooks on Jun 14, 2020 20:31:40 GMT
Planting the border this afternoon
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