What's happening in your garden today?

[Anniekay]

I drilled 2 holes until the hole saw went blunt

I could give this to Tetters and then hide behind it

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You mean: "Run and hide !!"

 

[big rockpile]

Watered everything in the Greenhouse. Sifted some Compost.

Someone that seems to get some soil from yours truly when I'm gone. Said they had some pots to empty. I said fine dump them in the first bin.

Well I have 3 Bins the first one has just started breaking down, the last one is ready. I was sifting found he had dumped them in that bin. Just mix it in it wasn't that much.

Anyway I mixed a butch of soil.

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[Logan]

Dug up 3 currant bushes, it was hard going and got 2 more to do.

 

[Sean Regan]

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It started off a bit frosty first thing, but it soon warmed up, so this afternoon I tackled the lawn brick edging, with my jet-wash.​

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It was very mossy in places.​

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It didn't take long.​

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It's still in pretty good condition considering I laid the bricks over fifteen years ago.​

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The lawn will tale a few weeks to recover from its recent scarifying.​

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I also jet-washed the small patio and path. This will need some re-pointing "on a dry warmer day."​

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I've not yet given up with the missing grass under this acer. A bit later, I'll invest in a couple of rolls of turf. It will have a couple of things going for it this year. I'm going to "shorten the hem" of the acer and the huge tree in the garden to the left which kept this area in constant shade, has had all its branches cut off and there's just the trunk remaining, which I anticipate will be removed soon.​

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[Tetters]

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It started off a bit frosty first thing, but it soon warmed up, so this afternoon I tackled the lawn brick edging, with my jet-wash.​

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It was very mossy in places.​

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It didn't take long.​

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It's still in pretty good condition considering I laid the bricks over fifteen years ago.​

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The lawn will tale a few weeks to recover from its recent scarifying.​

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I also jet-washed the small patio and path. This will need some re-pointing "on a dry warmer day."​

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I've not yet given up with the missing grass under this acer. A bit later, I'll invest in a couple of rolls of turf. It will have a couple of things going for it this year. I'm going to "shorten the hem" of the acer and the huge tree in the garden to the left which kept this area in constant shade, has had all its branches cut off and there's just the trunk remaining, which I anticipate will be removed soon.​

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Surely it would be easier and more cost effective to throw a little seed down there as the warmer weather comes in (hopefully very soon) I have always found on the camping site that bare patches very quickly recover without any assistance at all, and just needs a little careful mowing as it replenishes itself.

 

[big rockpile]

Planted Petunia Seed and Repotted couple Spider Plants.

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[Sean Regan]

Surely it would be easier and more cost effective to throw a little seed down there as the warmer weather comes in (hopefully very soon) I have always found on the camping site that bare patches very quickly recover without any assistance at all, and just needs a little careful mowing as it replenishes itself.

In the past couple of years, it's been the increasing lack of light that kills any new growth from seed.

 

[Logan]

Dug up another 2 currant bushes, not sure about the last one, it's very big and hard to get at the roots to cut them.
Just received the new ones so I'll have to heal them in or put in a big container.

 

[Anniekay]

I forgot to post what I did yesterday, yesterday, so I'll post it now. I dug out a big patch of wild onions from my South border. I like them for both taste and asthetics, they're attractive to me when in flower, but... My Beautyberry bush has been encroached by them and didn't really make many berries last year and it may be due to the onion between it's toes, so, out they came.

Then I dug in some new compost into that bed. I got only half of it weeded, (it's about 65' long all together) and then planted out a bunch of foxgloves around in what I hope appears as a natural formation.

Today I hope to get more plants set out into the borders, but I always do whatever I feel like doing first, so, who knows what I might do.

 

[Sean Regan]

Busy afternoon.
My neighbour and I got into the silver birch trees in the garden between ours, (that neighbour is a long term, hospital patient). After tackling the one that overhangs his garden, we then pollarded the three next to mine. We needed a scaffold, a chainsaw and my extending pruner
A drastic reduction in the height




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They look "dog rough" at the moment and there's still some "wispy bits," my side, that I can remove with my telescopic pruner. But once the leaves appear, they will look acceptable.

There's still a lot of cut down branches to clear (almost as much behind the camera) and we've already nearly filled two green bins, but mine's still empty.
There were quite a few very large dead shrubs that needed the chainsaw to cut down.

It'll probably take another two bin collections, at least, before we can get the garden clear. But we're going to leave the garden tidy.
On the right is a garage, with a pergola on the side, which has been completely overgrown, (we aren't going to attempt to tackle that!). I have to occasionally trim off what tries to get onto my garage roof!





As I don't have to work for a living, I'll spend some time tomorrow with my secateurs, reducing the smaller branches so they'll fit in a green bin. l can get a lot more in that way. The thicker branches will need my friend's chainsaw, (and that needs a new blade!) So that will have to wait until later in the week.
But by Thursday we'll have three empty bins again. So a lot more can be done.

 

[Anniekay]

I was lazy today. All I did was plant out broad beans and parsnips, but, my parsnip seed is not fresh so they probably won't germinate. I also planted out some Maximillion sunflower seed that I had saved from last year's plant.

 

[Zigs]

Sowed Red Baron Onions, Leaf Beet, Celery, Beetroot, more Leeks, Lettuce and some old Parsnip seed that I had left in a packet. I sowed some of Tetters saved Parsnip seed last week on some tissue paper covered up with cling film

Watered the Leeks and Giant Onions that I sowed on Boxing Day

 

[Logan]

Hubby helped me dig up the last currant bush i couldn't have done it by myself. He's got to put all of the roots in bags to take to the recycling centre tomorrow.

 

[Sean Regan]

The good news!
I did a bit more work clearing the cut down branches in next door's garden.





The bad news!


I've moved them all up to the top of the garden.






There won't be any green bin space until Thursday.

 

[Zigs]

I can sympathise Mr Regan, been cutting up and burning an entire hedge here

 

[big rockpile]

Cut back on plants today, so some got compost duty. Trimmed some Herbs. Repotted some Geraniums.

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[Sean Regan]

No gardening today, I'm trying to keep off my lawn to give it a chance to recover from the winter. The patios need a bit of re-pointing, but that can wait until we get some warm weather. But I will repaint some of my garden woodwork before the wisteria blossoms get in the way.

I've some domestic chores to do today and I might get into one of my other hobbies.

My jukeboxes get little use in the winter, although I just play a few tracks each week, "as use is the best form of preventative maintenance." But the records in their carousels could do with being taken out and given a clean with record cleaning fluid. I do it every year.

The stylus does pass over a little brush before and after playing a record, so any lint gets removed. But that's not enough.

I'll also give both of them a drop of oil, "where it's supposed to go."

 

[Logan]

Finished digging up some of the currant bushes and replaced with new ones. 3 bushes for £11.99. the one is only 1 stick but it's good for the price. Going to put some crocuses and tulips in the autumn.

 

[big rockpile]

Well I was excited 100% chance of rain. Caught a total of 12 and half gallons of water.

I'm going to have no choice but to use Tap Water.

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[Zigs]

Well I was excited 100% chance of rain. Caught a total of 12 and half gallons of water.

I'm going to have no choice but to use Tap Water.

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We can't use tap water for the cacti Mr Pile so we've installed 1000 gallons worth of rainwater barrels now