2025 - What I did today

No playing in the garden after work yesterday due to weather. Looking very much the same for today. But I will be harvesting for tea later.

Weeding, apple thinning, GH tidying.

Digging over where the early potatoes were to remove as much couch grass as I can find and, as it had compost added for the potatoes I'll be planting out onions there in the autumn. I need to get them sown in the next week or 2. Probably sow them tomorrow just in case there is a problem with the seeds so I've time to get some more - Senshyu Yellow variety. The soil though is bone dry and desperately needs rain. Even the weeds are struggling. I've not mowed the grass for weeks now and a field a local farmer would cut for silage look OK to play football on the grass has grown that little this year.

Cut the grass yesterday most of it looks like straw with a few patches of 6inch high green areas it does look better now its all the same height.

Cut back the Mints, lemon balm and Pineapple sage that were creeping across the path - took cuttings of the Pineapple sage. Chopped up the herbs and dumped them under an apple tree - where they can root, if they wish.
Pulled up lots of montbretia and Enchanter's Nightshade - I hate the little sticky seeds on that plant. I was covered with them once I'd finished.

Yesterday planted lettuce in buckets and gave the paved/pebbled area in front of the GH a weed and tidy.

I've been looking after a neighbour's garden whilst they're away. It's a large garden but they're not gardeners. She works on the principle of bung it in and forget it. The few plants she has are quite neglected but I took a few cuttings of argyranthemum, hydrangea, cytisus, carnation, French lavender, hibiscus/mallow, the mauve perennial wallflower and what I think is a potentilla. I've no idea if it's the right time of year or the correct way but they've got two chances, grow or not.
The cuttings of salvia hotlips and a purple one have taken very quickly, in just a fortnight theve filled their pots so I potted those on.

I've been looking after a neighbour's garden whilst they're away. It's a large garden but they're not gardeners. She works on the principle of bung it in and forget it. The few plants she has are quite neglected but I took a few cuttings of argyranthemum,  hydrangea,  cytisus, carnation, French lavender,  hibiscus/mallow, the mauve perennial wallflower and what I think is a potentilla. I've no idea if it's the right time of year or the correct way but they've got two chances, grow or not.
The cuttings of salvia hotlips and a purple one have taken very quickly, in just a fortnight theve filled their pots so I potted those on.

She works on the principle of bung it in and forget it. 

.............and this is wrong???

Weeded the squash & carrot fish boxes, harvested a few things, picked some very nearly dry DFB pods. Now finishing the drying process in a sieve. So the beans don’t drop out and become mouse food. Some dead heading in the cottage garden. A big butterfly count. Collected some seeds

I've been looking after a neighbour's garden whilst they're away. It's a large garden but they're not gardeners. She works on the principle of bung it in and forget it. The few plants she has are quite neglected but I took a few cuttings of argyranthemum,  hydrangea,  cytisus, carnation, French lavender,  hibiscus/mallow, the mauve perennial wallflower and what I think is a potentilla. I've no idea if it's the right time of year or the correct way but they've got two chances, grow or not.
The cuttings of salvia hotlips and a purple one have taken very quickly, in just a fortnight theve filled their pots so I potted those on.

She works on the principle of bung it in and forget it. 

.............and this is wrong???

Not entirely wrong for home grown bits, but she spent some good money on brand new plants, planted them carefully then allowed rabbits to trim them and didn't water them in the hot weather. Not a good start for new plants. Nonetheless, they're alive and being selfish,  I got some cutting material so all is good