Welcome to my green gym

[Pineapple27]

We've been lucky with the weather today and I've been out in the Green Gym, mowing the lawn, dead heading and watering. As some of you may have read, doing a bit of tidying in the garage...

We did a few things a bit differently in the garden this year:

(1) Cascading begonias in the hanging basket - success, as long flowering and no dead heading!

(2) Dahlias in pots - ditto. It's nice to still be enjoying plenty of colour.

Mowed the lawn this morning - do you like my stripes? We've got a company who come and weed & feed it every couple of months and it seems to have paid off. The dandelions and daisies have gone, the moss has vanished and the lawn is certainly a lovely shade of green!

Oh, and a picture of my pudding slipped into the picture. A flat peach chopped, a few home grown raspberries, a couple of spoonfuls of Greek yogurt, a squeeze of honey and a sprinkling of toasted flaked almonds... 166 calories!

[matets]

It's so beautiful! You have maintained it so well.

[Pineapple27 in reply to matets]

Thank you! We are lucky as we are both retired, so we get to spend quite a bit of time out there. We grow some fruit and veg. Plus we enjoy it

[Minniewinny 5 stone Maintainer]

It looks beautiful

[Pineapple27 in reply to Minniewinny]

Thank you!

[IndigoBlue61]

What a lovely garden Pineapple 😊 So colourful and very pretty. Thank you for sharing

[Pineapple27 in reply to IndigoBlue61]

A pleasure! I'd invite you all round for a garden party with home made cakes if we weren't all trying to be good

[YellowRose55]

Beautiful photo's of your Green Gym Pineapple27 you really have been working hard. I love the Cascading Begonias they are lovely. I must remember them for next year. Your Dahlias look pretty too in the pots. The slugs had all mine before they had change to flower!

Loving the stripes, lawn is looking great. It is such a pretty colourful garden. I was going to post my Green Gym today but it might be tomorrow now as it's busy.

[Pineapple27]

The slugs ate everything we planted in our front garden.... sunflowers, marigolds... ggrrrrr. For some reason they're not bothering us at the back. We have plenty of sunflower and marigolds (and dahlias!)

Highly recomment the trailing begonias. These were called "inferno", we got them as tiny plugs - 3 in each basket and let them establish in the greenhouse until the risk of frosts had passed.

Have just read that these are half hardy perennials too, so we may be able to over-winter them in the greenhouse for next year!

[VickyDLM 2 stone in reply to Pineapple27]

Probably showing my ignorance here, but I thought slugs didn't like marigolds? Or maybe that's a different type of garden pest. I just remember my Mom always planting them in the vegetable garden to fend off the bugs.

[Pineapple27 in reply to VickyDLM]

Marigolds are high on the list of favourite slug foods, especially when the plants are young.

[VickyDLM 2 stone in reply to Pineapple27]

I guess slugs are just a bit more scarce in Utah. Too dry for the most part!

Thanks, Pineapple27!

[Kaza67]

Beautiful, Love the stripes, Thanks for sharing.