A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat What did you do in the garden today? #10

I might go out tomorrow and finish digging...I also want to see if I can get the fallen leaves so far to start my leaf compost pile

Didn't do much in the garden today. We did go and get a pumpkin and mums to decorate the front yard. Am on Vacation for the week so will be doing some out side. Husband did work in his asparagus bed

all I did today was maintanence. I watered (again) and I swept off my front porch & the garage apron.

ladyslipper---what does yout DH do to his asparagus beds in the fall??

I've been collecting seeds. It's been kind of easy because everything has dried up due to the drought. One problems is that I can't tell what color the Hollyhocks were. I don't think they bloomed for long and I can't remember which was which.

Well it stopped raining so today I will re-edge the veggie bed, cut back the rest of the perennials and take a few pics of the trees changing colours. My garden season has completely had it, over again for another year.

I raked up about three treash cans worth of leaves...will bring out the lawn mower to cut the lawn and the leaves up to make leaf mulch/leaf mould

I want to finish digging the garden but I'll see...

I have to plant mint but I'm going to wait to find a bottomless pot to put it in. I planted two and wanted them to take off but they didn't and I forgot to put a barrier around those two

weed he has been putting it off and it is bad.

Well, I cut and chucked sod and made the veggie garden area 12 ft by 15 ft now(wish I had a small tiller). Also weeded out the strawberry bed but this year I am leaving the suckers run wild in it so I can remove and replant them in another bed in the spring.

well I finally did get outside and dug up my begonia to try and see how it does inside this winter. I also put my hanging pots in the garden shed as they are talking frost tonight here and then back to warm weather. Thought I might keep the hanging pots going as long as I can. Also picked peppers.

didn't have that frost after all! Went out and planted some spring bulbs and got my hanging pots back out.

I was out picking tomatoes and peppers......Apples too.
We love applesauce ............really tastes good when there isnt any other fruit .
Lotza grapes too.......I will freeze and make jelly all year round.

I never buy jelly or jam.

I am still trying to figure out a plan for the flower bed on the West side of the house. I have spray paint lines all over trying to figure out the shape of the bed

Try kidney shape.............

Went up to the church and cut down all the gardens except for the autumn joy and some tall phlox that was still blossoming. Took a couple shoots from the autumn joy to start new ones. resting now and maybe will get out in my yard later ths afternoon. Hopefully! Dodge wish I had apple trees, sounds so good. We do have local orchids where we can buy and will be getting some Thursday!

First time in several years those did bear any fruit..I think frost did them in .

However here is lots of apple sauce and pies coming for winter.. I freeze lots. Just did.

I have one apple on my tree Out of all the apple trees in the orchard there might of been a dozen apples. Too much rain and wind this year, they dropped their blossoms.

Dodge, I can't do a kidney shape because I have to go against the house and incorporate a Weigela already on the side. Kind of a bad place because I can't go past the chimney or too close to the pave.

This is the west side.


I need to start it a foot from the chimney, go under the window and go around the weigela. There is a little flower bed there but it needs to be enlarged to cover the whole area. Oh, and it gets mostly shade, I am amazed the weigela has thrived.

Why not just dig the bed under the window clear out to the drive and make the sides round just like you have it .........Make more room......

The ground near the pave always ends up getting scraped in the winter, so nothing will grow within a foot of the pave. I might continue it like you said though to the right of the weigela. Make almost a full bed, I have plenty of astilbes and hostas to be divided so I will have no trouble filling it in.

That sounds good.......

I am making a new tulip bed .The other one was so wet all the tulip bulbs rotted.

Jack digs them with his Payloader. 3 scoops and were done.

I picked up my new rose tree after the wind blew it over ;)

I planted my pot of mums in the beds because the wind would not let them stand upright......
Ole mother nature is playing games ......again.

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