Azaleas - all flowered reasonably well except one plant,didn't have even one.
Dietes - are in about their fifth blooms, they're great! Seed heads have formed so I'll be eagerly awating to harvest them.
Was a Good Girl today and made fruit fly bait for the nectarine tree and also took off a bucketful of immature fruit.
Camelia - finished, was happy with the flowers.
Gardenias - are looking slightly pale, so I've fertilised them. No sign of buds :(
Cape Gooseberry - cut off the older canes a few weeks ago, there was already lots of fresh new canes and they continue to grow weel; they already have flowers and fruit.
Hippeastrum - I have two flowers! Didn't expect any this year due to having disturbed and pulled babies off the bulbs.
It's forecast to rain for the rest of my holiday week so I probably wont get any more gardening in.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Biiiig Day in The Garden
I have lavished such attention on my lawn today that I'm sure it will die of fright.
Involving about 5 hours of work on the front lawn I:
* aerated it by hand, with a garden fork (I do not have a small lawn, and fully expect my arms to drop off when I get out of bed tomorrow morning)
* pulled out the worst of the flat weeds - there were lots of them
* raked up said flat weeds
* mowed the lawn
* fertilised
* turned on the sprinlers to find one not working, about an hour later and much swearing and cursing (well not really, I'm not the swearing type) they were all working
* watered the lawn for 20 minutes.
Now if the silly thing doesn't grow well after that then I'm about to give up!!
In other garden news:
Mango - is starting to flower. Gave it some NPK Blue in honour of the flowers.
Peach - is flowering, but seems to be only on a spike growing from the base of the tree. I'm not sure whether it's below the graft or above ... will wait and see what eventuates.
Nectarine - is in fruit .. may spend some time tomorrow taking off some of the fruit and maybe make a fruit fly trap.
Hyacinths - tallest flowers I've ever had on them. Not as many flowers on the spikes as I thought there would be though.
Freesias - flowered and finished.
Vege patch - seems to be doing fine, however weeds are starting to grown and with the bird netting (to stop the cats digging) makes it impossible to weed. The Pak Choi seeds have sprouted but no sign of any corn.
Avocado - flowering.
Involving about 5 hours of work on the front lawn I:
* aerated it by hand, with a garden fork (I do not have a small lawn, and fully expect my arms to drop off when I get out of bed tomorrow morning)
* pulled out the worst of the flat weeds - there were lots of them
* raked up said flat weeds
* mowed the lawn
* fertilised
* turned on the sprinlers to find one not working, about an hour later and much swearing and cursing (well not really, I'm not the swearing type) they were all working
* watered the lawn for 20 minutes.
Now if the silly thing doesn't grow well after that then I'm about to give up!!
In other garden news:
Mango - is starting to flower. Gave it some NPK Blue in honour of the flowers.
Peach - is flowering, but seems to be only on a spike growing from the base of the tree. I'm not sure whether it's below the graft or above ... will wait and see what eventuates.
Nectarine - is in fruit .. may spend some time tomorrow taking off some of the fruit and maybe make a fruit fly trap.
Hyacinths - tallest flowers I've ever had on them. Not as many flowers on the spikes as I thought there would be though.
Freesias - flowered and finished.
Vege patch - seems to be doing fine, however weeds are starting to grown and with the bird netting (to stop the cats digging) makes it impossible to weed
Avocado - flowering.
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