What’s going on in your garden (2026)?

Lullabelle said:
Bought a couple of planters, liner and compost. Next Tuesday going to a garden centre with a good friend so I shall be channeling my inner Monty Don.
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Lullabelle said:
My bird feeders and seed have been delivered, bought the ones that you stick on your window.
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We’ve got the hummingbird feeders out (three of them) and are treated to a nearly continuous show of Hummingbird Hunger Games as they all fight at all the feeders trying to get the upper hand.
 
TastyReuben said:
We’ve got the hummingbird feeders out (three of them) and are treated to a nearly continuous show of Hummingbird Hunger Games as they all fight at all the feeders trying to get the upper hand.
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Here they swarm the crabapple tree. My bird feeder attempts thus far succumb to the racoons.
 
The hard graft is done (ish). Every bit has been sieved to remove the runner grass (UK people - think couch grass on steroids), the odd bit of glass, rather a lot of charcoal (from the 60's that has not decomposed). Fermented mulch from the chook house that has been watered and left to rot for 12 months has been added as has some additional manure. I will be growing leafy stuff in this for the next season - high nitrogen, and then the subsequent year it can get tomatoes after that. And a ton of ash has been added. Once it has rested for a week or two (and hopefully rained by then), I will test the pH and see what else needs to be done. The wood along the edges (it's a eucalyptus called ironbark that is resistant to everything including drill bits), has been added to try to level the soil in an attempt to get water to remain on top of the soil long enough to actually be absorbed.

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The area to the right in the photo below, is last year's dormant area. It needs much more organic matter added, so it is this year's bokashi area - where my japanese composting system get buried after its time in the bucket to finish off being turned into compost.
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I also need to have words with the raspberry canes and tame them again (stand them up would be a good starting point).
Then at some point the courgette plants may die back - they are still producing loads of courgettes and flowers as you can see - which is odd given we are effectively in everyone else's month of November.

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I am still waiting for my blueberry to go dormant as well as the barberry to finish fruiting, so I can dig them up and regain some space - they were both 30cm high plants when I got them a couple of years ago.

I also need to transplant the red currant bush behind the barberry, in front of the raspberry canes (a different variety that is still flowering and fruiting). We had another bowl of raspberries from those canes this morning.


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And as you can see, even the rhubarb still thinks it is growing season, along with the strawberry plants. But the red currant (or it might be a white currant) to the right of the rhubarb has decided that the season is over. (on the left you can see the thorns of the barberry! that is one reason I need it out of the veg plot now! And somewhere in that spot is a pomegranate tree and a lime tree (recent arrivals).
 
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