What jobs are we doing in the garden today 2016

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  1. Michael Hewett

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    Recently I've been clearing the entrance to a perspex 'shelter' that's in my garden.
    It housed some cacti this year but the entrance had become so overgrown that I couldn't get in there.

    It's a good job cacti are drought resistant, because I hadn't watered them for about two months.

    Here is how it looked before :-

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    Here it is now :-

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    Inside the shelter the hardy Fuchsia had become so overgrown, and the flowers were hanging in bunches from the 'roof' ... they were pretty though.

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    Here's the view looking out from the shelter after I'd finished cutting back :-

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    It all needs tidying !

    I took all the cacti out and put my tomatoes in there, because it gets more light than where they were, and they seem not to be doing very well. I hope they buck up a bit.
     
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      I started my gardening off yesterday with well over an hour of picking beans and quite a while picking rhubarb. Then an hour's break for a cuppa and a read - plus sending out emails to those people that were waiting for beans etc. Then I continued digging and weeding the nasty weeds and bagging them as the wheelie bins are full.

      Mrs Shiney carried on the heavy pruning and I had a problem putting all the prunings on the bonfire because the wind off the field was too strong! :doh:

      Mrs Shiney was also preparing her entries for the horticultural and flower show on Tuesday.
       
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        Good morning ,is that the time already,doesn't time fly when your having fun;) we or is it me or was it Mrs Woo :whistle: decided to repaint the bench which came from our local church and the Arbor .shut your eyes,wait for it now you can open them:heehee:

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          I think that you should have painted it a bright colour. :heehee:
           
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            Good afternoon @shiney my dear friend,I did try to get an illuminous bright lime green but they don't do dull colours :whistle: and to my way of thinking it will brighten the garden up on our long winter's days;) and watch this space I haven't finished yet:heehee:
             
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              @wiseowl When I was a little boy I made my dad paint my bedroom in that colour :rolleyespink: :snork:
              I remember everyone saying "Why didn't you choose a 'nice' colour ?"
              But I think that IS a nice colour. :blue thumb:
               
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                Good evening @Michael Hewett my friend ,thank you ,much appreciated,I just thought that it was good enough for Queen Victoria:whistle:

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                  Well, if it's good enough for Queen Victoria ... :smile:
                   
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                    Good morning:smile: I have set my new shredder up and have nearly completed half way round the garden,its a cracking shredder eats everything up like a lion and very quiet:smile:

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                      Well, yesterday I cut about 10-15 metres of one of the laurel hedges, and bundled all the cuttings up into faggots (has to be tied with natural twine, so not easy - as it breaks, and shreds my fingers as I tighten...)

                      Today, so far, I have brought all 15 faggots back in from the edge of the road, as they were not collected... :frown:
                       
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                        This morning I wasn't under any real pressure to get to work :yes:, (that makes a real change for me!) anyway Kev & I moved most of the logs into the log store he's made :dbgrtmb: the front garden is starting to look tidy :dbgrtmb:, there's still quite a lot to do but I'm hopeful by this time next week it should be neat & tidy :yay:
                         
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                          Too hot for doing much in the garden (92F/33C) at the moment :doh:

                          Mrs Shiney went to the Horticultural and Flower Show and won five 1st's, nine 2nd's and five 3rd's.

                          The firsts were:-
                          Rose - one specimen bloom
                          Dahlia - one bloom
                          Dahlia - three blooms same variety
                          Ornamental Grass in pot
                          Floral Fantasy (flower arrangement) as many colour of the rainbow as possible
                           
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                            Taken a few dahlia cuttings after the flower head snapped off the stem (bit distraught ovr that lol).
                            Discovered it's too hot already so relaxing on patio with feet up. It's exhausting.
                             
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                              I've just come in as it has reached 80F. :phew:
                               
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                                Building myself up to cut the lawn.
                                 
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