What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK2..

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  1. pamsdish

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    Went out front to dead head :thumbsup: ,ended up pruning ,wigella,forsythia and pyracantha as well :paladin: . getting hot so time for a rest ,:phew:
     
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    You need a friendly local woodpecker :heehee:

    I've picked beans today and put the sprinkler on the veg. Too hot to do anything else :sad:
     
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    Um what was your address again ;)
     
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    watered the plot and weeded but too hot now:phew:
     
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    Just watered again, and you'll never believe it, some scruffian dumped a crisp packet on me grass. You couldn't make it up!!! :biggrin:
     
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      A bird pooped on my clean patio Al n,
      Jenny:cry3:
       
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        LOL @ Jenny!! Least it wasn't your head. I got pooped on earlier this year. Lousy rotten starling..........
         
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        Fabulous warm summer day. Lovely to work in the garden surrounded by the contented buzzing of the bees. But all I've been doing is hand weeding the blighters which shot up with all the rain when it was just too wet to get on to the soil! Still, lovely to be out there on such a beautiful day. Have come in for a rest now - the knees aren't what they used to be!
         
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        Just seen this one:lunapic 130165696578242 5:
         
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        Mowed the main lawns (about a third of an acre) this morning but it got too hot. So I didn't carry on.

        After lunch I spent an hour tying back 30ft of crocosmia lucifer that had been pushed almost flat by the laurel getting too big. Mrs Shiney had cut the laurel back (by about 3ft) to give it room. I was able to do this in the shade of the laurel.

        Then I picked about 14lb of beans :dbgrtmb:

        Some of the laurel filled three wheelie bins (ours and our neighbour's) and, as I keep using their bin, I've just asked the Council for another one. They have to send an inspector out to check whether we need it and we have to already be doing a lot of composting.

        The bonfire heap is getting bigger. :thumbsup:
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          Just a thought: couldn't you run it through a chipper and either compost or put it on as a mulch somewhere?

          I couldn't imagine giving away any of my precious garden rubbish - except the pernicious weeds, but even those I drown & then compost.
           
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          I'm not keen on even more machinery - and it takes time to put it through a chipper. I have about six bonfires a year (twice the size of that pile) and the ash gets spread on the garden.
           
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          Had a bonfire :)... then surveyed the garden... what a mess... now totally despondent!
           
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          I'd cut a length of 4" X 2" and treated it with timber preservative a couple of days ago and then fitted it today in the Arbour as a arm/back rest on the right hand side. I'd already installed one on the left hand side [I'm left handed:snork:] but thought it would be good to put one on the other side. Although I did it in the mid morning I still ended up in a sweat due to the Sun coming out in strength!!:what:
          Then I watered the tomatoes in the Green House in the morning and waited until the early evening to feed the Cannas in the pots in the borders, in the Green House and on the Patio with Miracle Grow.:snork: In between I wandered through the borders to do a bit of dead heading, cut back the dwarf Mock Orange to a more tidy shape, refilled the bird feeders, the bird baths, and then checked on the roses by the pond. I also decided that I'd have to move the Rose "Orange and Lemon" to a more suitable place as it is a bit hemmed in by other plants!!!:heehee:
           
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            All sounds Gade A stuff Armandii,
            talking of GRADE A,
            question: what have the Queen, her son Charles, his son William,
            you and me ,
            got in "common"?

            We are all left handed,
            all grade A stuff Armandii :love30:
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