What jobs are we doing today in the garden ?

I spiked the lawn yesterday but haven't been able to do much today as i've got blisters on my palms..who'd have thought the odd blister would be so painfull...serves me right should have had gloves on but i don't like wearing them...no wonder i've got hands like pigs feet

 

ive got segs on segs..good job i dont do massages

 

What are 'segs' Joolz

 

hard crusty lumps on skin on ya palms below each finger

 

im a manc thought every1 knows the slang

 

Ah ..i see....i know segs as things you put on shoes to make them last longer.....
Y can't beat a gud pair o cloggs

 

I've been a plasterer for 8 years, so every day holding a trowel, I just have marks where blisters used to be.. but don't get blisters on my hands anymore because of it...

 

Segs.....they'll be callouses then. There probably isn't a gardener without those including me.

 

Today I have spent the past couple of hours digging over an empty border, digging in lots of compost, then planting three Camellias and two Rhododendrons and mulching it all with some bark chippings.

 

Dug out to Verry Deep Holes to mount Gate. In Folly Door way the Gate is Antique from a local listed building built in 1765 I got it in a Deal some 18 months Ago I've made the posts @ work out of Artic Lorry. Bumpers Never attempted Anthing like this before Also managed aprox 12 months ago to get some tops for the posts urn like pots made of cast iron to top the posts off only just got around to doing it as the folly was Un/Finshed
Praying I can get it up Tomrow if my mates turn up took 3 of us to move it on its side
So God only knows How we am going to stand it up right to hang it!! Ile post pics if we Suckseed :WINK1:

 

THE Posts Am IN!!! JUST Waighting for the Post Mix to Set
Then the Back Braking job of TRYING only TRYING To get the Gate up Right :wallbang:
As i said Earlier Iv Never Done Anything Like this Before the Gate is Aprox 7 n Half 8ft Tall Im pleased how the posts have turnd out to say they are Artic Lorry Bumpers
Iv Bought the Correct Fittings & Hangers Welded them All in to place @ work welded the tops on them the posts am just over 10 ft long with 3 ft in the Ground
just makeing 110% sure this NEVER Falls OVER
Its Heavy Enoughf To Kill Some One!!!!
worked 12 n half hours last Night just trying to Sort it in between Rain
only had 4 n half hours sleep
But Have Waighted 18 months to Get This Gate up
Now iv made the posts I Just want them up and Finally
FINALLY The Folly is Finished

 

:wallbang: CARNT Get photos to up load for some reason

its UP im well chuffed took longer then i thaught

But the end Result is

 

Can't wait to see pics Follymon hurry up

 

Yesterday I dug up a lilac Rhododendron which I put in a planter.

Today I added some J Arthur Bowers Garotta to the compost.

I bought two decent sized Clematis montanas (Rubens and Grandiflora) from Morrisons for £5 each just now, so will plant those out over the weekend (when I can decide where they are going). They are already flowering so will look lovely next year.