keeping busy in the winter months

hi all i was just wondering after most of my work is all but done . the grass is fine and left till next year, what needs cutting back is done and what needed digging up and drying out is done. my winter pots are all but finished . so now it seems over the next few months im going to be at a loose end in the garden. SO HOW DO YOU KEEP BUSY? in the garden when there is not a lot to do

 

My jobs over the next few weeks/months -

Still have to empty loads of pots. Dry and store dahlia and begonia tubers; put spent compost into bags to add to compost heaps next year.

Loads of winter pruning and shredding (store the shreddings to add to compost) to do.

Lots of leaves yet to be swept and composted.

Lawns to be spiked/aeriated. Some footpath slabs to be laid/re-laid.

Plant pots to sterilise and store.

Compost to spread and lime to add to brassica bed. Worm bins to be be half emptied and contents either bagged or spread.

Trenches for beans and peas to be dug and compost added.

Flame gun over paths and beds to kill weeds and seeds.

Incinerate all the stuff I can't shred; and store the ash to put under the fruit trees next spring

Catalogues for next year's seeds to be browsed.

Cut back the clematis montana in our 20 foot 100 year old pear tree.(Takes half a day) Pick up the last of the pears and peel some of the ivy back from our oldest apple.

Give the mowers and garden tools a good clean and sharpen and put up the bubble wrap and shelves in the GH, and shelves in the polytunnel.

Problem isn't what to do, but how to fit it all in

 

Get yourself a little g/house Ste allways something to do even if the weathers bad.

 

Dave W PHEW

 

Dave W, and what do you plan to do after lunch? :D :D . David.

 

Lunch? What's lunch? :D :D

 

Oh you poor half starved thing you David.

 

I will be working continuosly, some of the jobs to be done:

Prune fruit trees
Cut back clematis
Cut back roses by 2/3 to sop windrock and sort out climbers
Leaf clearance
Grass cutting
Trees to take down and prune
Windblown trees to chop up
Hedge reduction
weeding and edging of beds
Sort out perenial beds
Tree planting
Big Pond to do
Fence repairs
Several patios to do
Inside handyman type jobs for the very wet days.

 

how lazy do i feel now oh well i did ask. no way do people have lists that long in the winter going to have to look at getting a small green house for next year

 

Pity the weathers changing... Brrr colder than cool guys..

 

Ste there's always something that needs attention in the garden even if it's just a good clean up with the brush, oh and don't forget the doggy doo not nice to leave that knocking about! :eek:
Helen.xxx.

 

no doggy doo in the garden helen trained the dog after two weeks wont do it in the garden he will only do it down the canal i find a few jobs like shifting the leaves and sort my seeds out but i wont cut the grass now till next year i have planted everything i want in my garden the only thing that keeps me busy in the garden now is feedind the birds. i must have too much time on my hands oh well im not complaining

 

Hi
1)I have a pond to finish making and tricky paths to sort becasue they step down alogside terraced growing boxes -
2)a puddle to sort out.
3)New ground to be dug becasue i have nowhere tpo put potatoes now.

4)manure to be sourced -
5) reading up on how to be a competent gardener.trying to estimate how much to grow of everything and where it is goign to go.
6)making a lsit of all the things I got wrong this first year and what I have learned from here and elsewhere.
7)I also made a geodesic dome out of broom handles and I want to make a bigger one x 3 and try to construct my own polytunnel around them - 8)I have bought three arches which need bolting together they were really cheap and hurt your hands soemthing horrible - so I left them to later.
9) a camera to buy and learning how to paste pictures here
Plus all the things everyone else is saying that I did'nt know till now that I had to do - except that I have no lawn and no dog.

 

why are you all so busy . i must have took the easy option growing dahlias dig em up dry em out and presto ..job done