Garden Jobs For This Week 🌿🌳🌲🌾

Good morning everyone. It's Janette here on a Sunday morning. Enthusiastic gardener. Welcome back to my garden in Essex in England. It's a beautiful weather. Beautiful weather. And it's been very dry and hot here. So, I've just spent an hour watering the garden, which it so needed it. And it really just highlighted everything that needs to be done maintenance-wise. So, I have a whole load of weeds. weeds popping up everywhere. Now, I didn't want to do a video of me weeding because, well, it's not very interesting, is it? But I'll just show you some of my weeds here. This is the sort of thing that I need to tackle. And also, we have a lot of straggliness everywhere. I have my topies. They need to be trimmed. In fact, I watched Gardener's World. Monty said it's the perfect time. He was shaping his Nigel dog to toper. If ever you watch Gardener's World, he's made a one of his favorite dogs, Nigel, into a topery. Well, I'm not quite that advanced level. We can't do a little Lotty, can we Lotty? But I have quite a few toperies and they need to be tidied up. Um, they're becoming unrecognizable. So, I need to do that. I need to do things like cutting back my hard guraniums. And then also one of my star jasmines on one side which is that way that's turning its beautiful autumn color. While this one on the opposite wall which faces west that one faces east. This one's kind of far behind in the color but is very straggly and it needs tying in. And and then oh I need to cut back these because I cut these flowers off every week. These have done so well. I'm so pleased with them. But I cut the flowers off every week and then they bloom again straight away. So deadheading those. That's a good thing that I'll be doing. And another thing is my pond. That pond there. It's become so overgrown, which is kind of what I was after, the overgrown wild look. But even so, it's you can't even see it anymore. It's completely disappeared which I do quite like because well it's kind of hidden for any wildlife. They would probably feel very protected. But I think all the carexes there's so many and they just explode in my garden. They they have little pups and the pups grow and I think I do need to thin it out. Now I have tried transplanting them. They just don't like it and they often die. So, unfortunately, I just have to thin out. I've even given them to other people. I gave some to mom, those died. I gave some to Tina, those died. So, a little bit of a double-edged sword because they're beautiful plants, but I don't want them anywhere else. I have so many in that little area. I don't want a whole garden of KEX grasses. So, I'm going to thin them out, and they will they will have to um go. And I know some of you won't be happy about that, but you know, they they won't survive if I try and transplant them. It's just they do prolifically well here. So, there's that to do. My tree fern is looking amazing. And shady corner. Funnily enough, I find the shade garden is the easiest the easiest of all of my garden areas. And loving the tree burn. I am watering that tree burn twice a day. I water it in the morning, I water it in the evening. Sometimes I water from overhead and I kind of count count to 60 and uh that's how much water it gets. Sometimes I fill a watering can and then you pour the water right into the trunk. So I do that. You have to keep them wet all the time. They're very, very needy, but I love it so much. The other thing is my fish. Oh, my fish are just delightful and they're getting friendlier. And I like to think that they know me. Well, they certainly I put my fingers in 5:00 or 5:30 every afternoon. That's feeding time. And I put my fingers and they come waiting for their food. And they're just I love my fish. I love my fish. What more can I say? I'm so pleased I have them. What else do I need to do? Well, I realized actually listing all those jobs, which initially I thought to myself, we'll we'll do those in a in a couple of hours. No, we're not going to do that because now it's full sun in the garden and it's quite tiring gardening in the full sun. So, I'm going to do those as jobs for the week. And maybe one hour every day, I will tackle one of those jobs. A little bit of toper or a little bit of thinning of the pond, a little bit of tiling of the jasmine, star jasmine. Um, oh, the weeding as well. Of course, that's best done well, not in full sun. So, they are going to be my jobs for the week because the garden is supposed to be pleasurable, not an exhausting list of tasks. That's what I'm going to do. And I encourage you as well, one little hour here and there and we will get all these jobs done and it's not so daunting or overwhelming and we can have a little relax as well. So, that's what I'm going to do. So, apologies, no actual physical gardening today in this video. But planning is all part of the process. I wish you well wherever you are in the world and I will see you next week. Thanks for watching. Bye. Which one should we pick, Lotty? Let's pick the easy one.