What jobs are we doing today in the garden ?

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  1. shiney

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    I've cut the flowering stems to within an inch or two of the ground. Most of the leaf is left (it'll look good for quite some time) but some comes away when I cut the stems.

    I prefer to keep the stems very low because the parts left can be quite vicious when moving your arms through the beds to get to other plants and weeds. It's also much more tidy not to have thousands of stems sticking up in the air.
     
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    potted up the last 15 coreopsis, cleaned up the poppies, thanks to slugs and snails the leaves looked dreadful,and also cut back the aquilegias as I think we have quite enough now
     
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      009.JPG 010.JPG 002.JPG 005.JPG 002.JPG Couple pf photo's
      Lonely Ornamental onion and one of my Cracklingfire hanging basket, white foxglove that I never planted and the plant Simbad gave me

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        me and grandchildren has spent the whole day potting up plants all of varied colour and size going to quickly pop some lables in a tidy up a bit and if the light is still with me and the rain holds off i will take some pictures :dbgrtmb: nice to get some things done and no rain :dbgrtmb:
         
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        I spent 3hrs today pulling weeds out of a few new beds that I recently planted

        I sorted the weeds 2 weeks ago, and there were loads again ...

        :dunno:
         
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        Well Got in from work managed to mow the lawn!
        Even after yesterday's torrential downpours and a mini one this morning!
        Luckily me lawn slopes right to left :snork:
        Weeded between all the bedding and trimmed back some grasses
         
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          I only do weeding when its sunny, so as you can imagine my drive is getting a bit jumanji :biggrin:
           
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            Finally got a minute to post some pics - spot the difference:

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              I've mowed 7 lawns today (6 smallish ones in the same village), plus one large one in another village

              on a side note ... bought a tom tom satnav today .... used to take me 30-35 minutes to drive to the home with the larger lawn without satnav ....

              punched in the postcode this morning, and it was 6 minutes away from my home on a different route ... at first, I thought the tomtom was faulty

              :cry3:

              wife and kids are still laughing .... (I'm dumb with roads, and even get lost in the village that I have been living for the past 10 years)

              satnav is the greatest invention ever ....
               
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                  [quote="*dim*, post: 560210, member: 9090

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                  satnav is the greatest invention ever ....[/quote]

                  Good most of the time but just you wait..... like me in Mid-Wales sent me down a single track for 2 miles came out the other end in the middle of no mans land :lunapic 130165696578242 5:

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                  Good most of the time but just you wait..... like me in Mid-Wales sent me down a single track for 2 miles came out the other end in the middle of no mans land :lunapic 130165696578242 5:

                  Spruce[/quote]

                  :)

                  I have the latest technology now .... does eco routes and voice recognition and stuff I've never heard of before ....

                  used to have a tomtom go 910 when I had a van and when I used to deliver stuff I sold on ebay ....

                  london was sometimes a nightmare .... many times, I ended up in narrow roads with concrete pillars and had to reverse with a LWB ford transit
                   
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                    nothing in the garden today, but the morra i'm going to the nursery i found last week to treat the garden (and of course myself) to more plants. can't wait!! :blue thumb:
                     
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                      Yeh, Yeh. We "believe" you Kaz!
                       
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