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Post by SueA on Nov 30, 2017 8:23:05 GMT
I want to go shopping too grindle but I thought I'd better take advantage of the dry day or I'll never get anything done. I did manage to get out yesterday again & spread the contents of the old grow bags on the border at the end of the garden, empty some pots into the compost bins & plant out the tulip bulbs & some of the alliums, chionodoxas, muscari & others, still got lots of daffs & about 300 crocus which are the ones I'm thinking of planting in the lawn edge.
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Post by sweetpea on Dec 1, 2017 0:12:31 GMT
Cleared out one of the drains which was blocked and causing flooding. Lovely job, cold, wet, miserable, chucking it down with hail rain and sleet All the bird food is disappearing at a rate of knots. Roll on summer.
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Post by SueA on Dec 1, 2017 8:50:56 GMT
I waited until the sun came out hoping it would melt the frost & ice yesterday but the ground was frozen solid so I walked down to Tesco & did some Christmas shopping instead & was out a lot longer than I intended as I met my sis-in-law down the road & stopped chatting to her & then met one of our neighbours in Tesco & was chatting to her as well. Got back home hoping to do some gardening but only managed to poke holes in the compost in 2 troughs & pop 14 blue anemone corms in, then the sun went down & everywhere froze solid again!
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Post by Eli on Dec 1, 2017 9:58:43 GMT
It isn't weather for being outside, is it SueA I haven't done anything in the garden for ages, except bring my Fuchsias into a shed (old outside loo actually !) but I still have some big ones in a perspex shelter and I'm hoping they'll be all right there.
Still haven't planted any bulbs. I haven't got compost and haven't been able to go to get any. Now that Beryl's new wheelchair has arrived I hope to go next week one day.
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Post by Geumlover on Dec 1, 2017 21:22:51 GMT
Chain sawing firewood, hopefully for someone else and cutting down more finished vegetation for the shredder and then the compost heap. Again hopefully for someone else to use.
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Post by SueA on Dec 2, 2017 9:39:13 GMT
I've run out of compost as well now Eli, I've been buying small bags from our local 'pound & more' shop but they've only got big bags left & I can't carry them - will have to get O.H. to take me somewhere in the car this weekend. I did get 2 'standard' type hollies from 'You Garden' when they were on special offer for £29.99 with 2 free pots & they came yesterday so I potted them up with the last of my compost & put them at the front door, they are about 3 ft. tall with the pots & have quite a few red berries, nice plants.
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Post by grindle on Dec 2, 2017 17:13:09 GMT
No gardening at all this week, I'm all shopped out
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Post by SueA on Dec 3, 2017 9:49:55 GMT
That looks like me when I was walking home the other day grindle! Went to Fryer's yesterday & got a small bag of compost & 3 more packs of cheap crocus for the lawn, didn't actually do any gardening though as it was a horrible drizzly day - went to watch our local football team lose instead!
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Post by Geumlover on Dec 3, 2017 13:21:19 GMT
Too wet underfoot to do much out there.
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Post by grindle on Dec 4, 2017 5:14:07 GMT
found some nightlights in the cupboard so decided to try them out in the greenhouse with an upturned pot, will see when I go up to feed the birds later how it went
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Post by SueA on Dec 5, 2017 9:40:25 GMT
I've heard about that idea grindle, let us know how it goes, it might be worth trying here in very cold weather as I have no heating or anything in the greenhouse. I managed to get out yesterday & planted out/potted up all the daffs./narcissi I had (quite a lot!), some onion sets I found in the cupboard & a couple of bulbs of garlic cloves, still got about 400 crocuses to get in & a load of alliums - must try to get them in before the 'big freeze' !
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Post by steve on Dec 5, 2017 12:57:16 GMT
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Post by grindle on Dec 5, 2017 14:21:52 GMT
I've heard about that idea grindle, let us know how it goes, it might be worth trying here in very cold weather as I have no heating or anything in the greenhouse. I managed to get out yesterday & planted out/potted up all the daffs./narcissi I had (quite a lot!), some onion sets I found in the cupboard & a couple of bulbs of garlic cloves, still got about 400 crocuses to get in & a load of alliums - must try to get them in before the 'big freeze' ! www.budget101.com/content.php/4411-DIY-Flower-Pot-Heater?s=c0fa9b84273b5f39e256f8122ebcd144 this looks a bit more sophisticated than mine, the lights went out as I think the pot was too wet, it had been sitting outside, but I'm giving it another try and have ordered some 8hr tealights, will have to tweak it I think
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Post by lesley on Dec 5, 2017 16:38:01 GMT
The best idea is a fan heater no heat just the fan working to circulate the air, that's if you have electricity in greenhouse
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Post by grindle on Dec 6, 2017 5:15:45 GMT
unfortunately I don't have electric up there lesley I'm hoping to get some this next year which will make life a lot easier, I tried parafin heaters and they make everything black, I now have a small portable calor gas heater but I'm saving that until I start sowing seeds Swept up another load of leaves yesterday, some are still hanging on the Acers, no doubt the weather at the end of the week will blow them off
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