What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

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  1. Kristen

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      Hello @ARMANDII

      In that case, I shall continue to procrastinate, with a smile on my face, of course :)

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        I have weeded and turned over about 2 square metres of vegetable plot (that's about my limit for a day...I have rheumatoid arthritis and clay soil) As I worked and broke up big clods, I forked in chicken manure pellets. Then I read the packet of parsnip seeds...."grows best in soil which has not recently been manured." _ Does this maybe just mean manure as in from horses....or is chicken just as potent? If so...I shall weed etc the neighbouring bed tomorrow.....:-(
         
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          Worse case they will fork - which will make scrubbing and peeling more of a challenge. Unless you sow them into tomorrow's neighbouring bed without any Chicken Pellets perhaps
           
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            When I first grew parsnips I manured quite heavily and had the best parsnips I've ever managed. Tried to follow the sage advice since but never really got same results. Waiting to get the new pad sorted and will be quite keen to get back to the veg :)
             
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              This afternoon I decided to tidy up the pots and trays area. This is a nice name for the place where I dump them until needed. Unfortunately it is under the willow tree so they were chock a block with dead willow leaves. Most of the pots had been laid neatly in boxes but the boxes had filled with leaves. The trays are the ones for holding pots.

              All this may not seem too onerous a task but with about 3,000 pots and 200 trays it amounts to a lot of bending, emptying and then stacking in a reasonable order. The leaves filled a wheelie bin and my bad back and shoulder have required a massage and I can't lift my right arm :doh:

              Of course, all the digging this morning may have had something to do with it. :whistle:
               
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                Thank you for replies Kristen and Loofah. It's back to digging, of a new area, tomorrow. Then there'll be 2 beds to finish. But I do like parsnips.....
                 
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                  Potted on 2 blueberries into their final pots.
                  Later do more watering.
                   
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                    Guess you mean plants ... or do you mean blueberries hoping to get plants? Honestly, I am not really picking on you. :love30: I would love to have blueberry plants but sadly we are too hot and dry here. Not sadly for us but for the blueberries, same with raspberries which we both love.
                     
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                      We have found, annoyingly, that Choisya root runs. :mad: In a part of the garden that we rarely look down towards the ground a very large Choisya has root run under the paving (4" concrete base on top of which is street paving crazy paving which has then had other paving put on top). The roots have then run behind a large and 60 year old Hydrangea to grow up between it and the house wall.

                      We only noticed it when we went to prune back some of the dead branches on the Hydrangea. There are five Choisya stems between 3ft and 5ft high and close to an inch thick. I've now dug under the root runs and lifted the runners back to the paving. They're a good half inch thick at the paving. We're going to have to cut them off there and hope they don't regrow. If they do then we shall have to continue to cut them :doh:. I shall have a look to see whether I can find where they are running from, at the other side of the paving, but the large bush is right up to the paving and I can't bend under it. I may have to wait until Lewis can come again.

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                        It looks beautiful Shiney.. We had a variegated one in Buxks.
                         
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                          I mean plants, silly me.:heehee: It must be this lovely weather we're having. :heehee:
                           
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                            Been baking myself in the sun today - got prickly heat after yesterday so have covered up a bit! Planted out a few Salvia Viridis blue monday that I'd grown from seeds, bit of watering, bit of bird feeding.
                             
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                              This afternoon I took everything out the shed...

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                              ...and then put it all back in again

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                              Satisfying but ultimately futile, despite my best intentions the organisation never lasts...:rolleyespink:
                               
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