Mowing, weeding

Mowed middle lawn.
Pulled some of the weeds from the lower beds. All the beds need a good weeding.

The Waratah  is preparing to flower.

Some Sunday jobs

Strimmed the edges of the top lawn, mowed afterwards.
The snow peas are growing past the string supports, so added extra height to the supports.
Four courgettes moved to cold frame.

Cat and insect damage

One seedtray of red salvia has been dug up by a cat.
I have had to spray the seedlings in the coldframe with Confidor after an insect attack. I have not been able to find the insects.
Planted a seedtray of Money Maker tomatoes.

Despite some strong gusts overnight and squally showers today, we have had some long sunny spells and suffered little damage.

Weather and watering

The weather has been warm and sunny for much of the week, so I watered the cold frame and plastic mini greenhouse plants. There are storms forecast for this weekend.

More cleaning up

Weeded the bed below the grapefruit tree of vinca nad pulled it back from the boundary.
Bit of weeding by the flax by the lower lawn.
Cut back the cardinal flowers by the alstroemeria bed to let light in and ready to extend the waste bed there, so compost can be laid on it and it can be used for planting.
Cut back hydrangea below the kanuka and stacked waste on the waste heap below the kanuka.

Weather this week has been mild mostly and wet, but the dry spell this afternoon has been welcome.

Cleaning up

Weeded between the ornamental grasses on the drive, cleaned oxalis from below the wisteria.

Watered the marigolds, marjoram, mint with seaweed solution.

Planting out and potting up

Planted out 9 snow peas to replace losses.
Potted up 6 zucchini into 10cm pots.

Mowing and compost

Mowed the middle and lower lawn, now we have had 24 hours without rain.
Turned the compost and added lawn mowings and part composted chipped garden waste to it to give it a bit of get up and go.
The mowings from the lower lawn have been stacked where I moved stumps away for firewood last winter.

More seed sowing - salvia and cosmos

Put together another seedtray, repaired an old seedtray.
Sown one seedtray of red salvia.
Sown one seedtray of cosmos.

The weather has been wet for much of the week, with warm air until Friday.