2022 - What I did today

Tied up a couple of sunflowers. Weeded some pots. Collected some seeds.
Had a look at the weed tea in the bucket with a lid. Looking good. Fed a couple of thing with the buck of weed tea that didn’t have a lid. That didn’t work so well. A few things started to grow.

Picked raspberries - lots of sticky willie clambering through them this year - hate the stuff. keep pulling it out but it multiplies tenfold in revenge.
Did some weeding around the strawberries. Broke up a slice of log that was starting to rot down. Make me feel so strong when I can break chunks off a log with my bare hands.
Filled the garden waste bins with brambles and other undesirables ready for collection tomorrow.
Picked 4 courgettes including one which was curling around and had split on the inside as if its entrails were about to spill out.
Made 4 pots of strawberry jam whilst it was raining.

Found the birds or squirrels are eating my ripening toms both the tumblers on the patio and the tall ones in the gh. Bladdy things. Found some 40yr old window nets that we used to drape over fruit trees were just the right size cut in half to protect the open doors, so pegged them in place. Now I know why I don't throw anything away Put the patio tumblers under the square plastic pop-up cover that has come off the strawberries, that should stop the blighters.

Planted out some Bijou well overdue for putting out. Weeded and deadheaded. Quite frankly did nothing that I intended doing but still achieved something. Rain stopped play about 4pm, enough to be uncomfortable but not enough to do any good.

Strimmed the front, around the trees on the drive and the veg garden paths.

After work I watered tunnels and found a wilted fallen stem on the wild bergamot. Pulled it off the pot and found it had roots. So pruned it & potted. Fingers crossed. When I uncovered my bucket of compost I’ve been keeping in the tunnel. I found a chilli or sweet pepper seedling. So he got potted up at the same time as well. Mowed the lawn.

Potted up the Auricula in order to keep watch on the flower head - want to save seeds from it.
Did some buttercup and montbretia removal. Had intended to plant some perennial geraniums but it started to rain so I retreated to the GH and sideshooted and tied in the tomatoes. So nice to watch the subtle colour change that green tomatoes make as they prepare to ripen. Mountain Princess should be the first to turn red. We'll see.

Removed messy/tatty lettuce leaves and bolted spinach.

Fed & watered tomatoes, peppers, chillies, aubergines.
Mulched much of the veg plot with grass clippings.
Did the weekly sow list.
Planted out haricot and chard.

Started the makeover of the rockery and adjacent path. The rockery (loose term for a mound of soil and rocks riddled with montbretia and bindweed) lies between GH2 and GH3. The path runs along the base of the rockery parallel with the north side of GH1.
I want to make this path wider; lower the height of the rockery and create a path across it that connects GH 2 and 3, so that I don't need to come down from GH2 onto the main path and go back up into GH3.
So far, I've pulled up the plants between the rocks and the path and the log edging (acquired yesterday) has been hammered in to make a new edge a foot or so away. I need to move the rocks back about a foot and fill the space between the rocks and edging with the soil that I'll be removing to make the path between the GHs.
Still with me or did I lose you in the first paragraph?

Started the makeover of the rockery and adjacent path. The rockery (loose term for a mound of soil and rocks riddled with montbretia and bindweed)  lies between GH2 and GH3. The path runs along the base of the rockery parallel with the north side of GH1.
I want to make this path wider; lower the height of the rockery and create a path across it that connects GH 2 and 3, so that I don't need to come down from GH2 onto the main path and go back up into GH3.
So far, I've pulled up the plants between the rocks and the path and the log edging (acquired yesterday)  has been hammered in to make a new edge a foot or so away. I need to move the rocks back about a foot and fill the space between the rocks and edging with the soil that I'll be removing to make the path between the GHs.
Still with me or did I lose you in the first paragraph?

Something like this? Blue line path . Red line new path

   

Obviously I need to know every change that happens in every garden. In great detail because it could very well be something I can adopt and or adapt for my new garden   . Once more from the top please Veggie   . I’ll be taking notes this time   .