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Post by Rosie on Mar 23, 2011 9:00:14 GMT
Time to start a new thread!! I started to dig out my first island bed yesterday and i potted up some heuchera's.
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Post by esther on Mar 23, 2011 9:37:30 GMT
I have been out and thoroughly watered all the greenhouses this morning - just come in for a cuppa then I have 24 strawberry plants to plant in a pouch and patio bag
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Post by steve on Mar 23, 2011 12:38:55 GMT
I saw the beautiful sunshine from the warehouse doors! and Tel pointed it out in a text!
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Post by SueA on Mar 23, 2011 16:18:51 GMT
I went to the local garden centre for a bag of grit & a few primulas fell into my basket! ;D Discussed who is/was the best Doctor Who with a young schoolboy who was doing work experience on the till ( he said John Pertwee, I agreed but with a joint favourite of David Tennant, lady teacher with him said Christopher Eccleston as he's local & had visited their school!)Came home & planted up the primulas in 2 pots in which my little asters had died in the winter, topped some pots of lilies with the grit & then planted out 20 snowdrops & 20 bluebells in the green which had arrived in the post.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Mar 23, 2011 17:19:23 GMT
I pricked out one lot of tomatoes, two varieties of chilli and some bell peppers. The greenhouse is looking a bit full I'm not sure where the other tomatoes, chillies and peppers will go when I prick those out. I need to curb my seed sowing. Mowed the grass
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Post by peony on Mar 23, 2011 19:06:20 GMT
Spent all afternoon scarifying the lawn, got out loads of moss. Its looking a bit patchy now but it usually recovers fairly quickly. Also planted out a few more perennials
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Post by floydie on Mar 23, 2011 19:23:43 GMT
Swept up lots of coal dust, leaves, bits of roofing rubble, saw dust (OH left). Pulled out lots of over grown grass (Coming through from next door) sowed lots of annual seeds and any left over in open packets (Needed using this year anyway).
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Post by Geranium on Mar 23, 2011 19:43:45 GMT
My plants came from Cgf, and oh dear - what a disappointment - only 6 in the box - the rest can't be sent. I went off to a local Nursery to buy some shrubs - the space where the Cortaderia is looks awful. I'd been preparing the ground this week, digging out stones/rocks and bindweed roots, plus the dreaded Lamium galeobdolon, and composting the area, and I planted the Mortimer Sackler rose against the fence with a space for a Clematis viticella 'Etoile Violette', and also planted a variegated Philadelphus, a white Kerria - 'Rhodotypus scandens' and a tree (right at the back by the fence so it gets maximum light there). It's a fastigiate Prunus - 'Amanogawa'. I had to drive home from the Nursery with the car roof off and the tree wavng about in the breeze! ;D Then I crawled under the weeping pear tree and carried on weeding. That's the most difficult place to weed in the whole garden! I can't stand up at all.
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poly
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More enthusiam, than energy
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Post by poly on Mar 23, 2011 22:22:31 GMT
went to the GC to buy a clematis armandii they only had one and it was £47.99 needless to say it didn't come home with me, bought two 50p winter damaged plants and gone over plants from the sale area a pot of snowdrops and an A.molis (which had lots of shoots) came home and split up a pot of alpine strawberries and was surprised when 3 vine weevil grubs dropped out (put them on the bird table, revenge is sweet) then spent the rest of the afternoon sowing and pricking out, and just like WLF I'm rapidly running out of space. I forgot I also bought 5 tubers of Jerusalem artichokes haven't grown or eaten them before, trying things that are new this year.
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Post by grindle on Mar 24, 2011 6:09:18 GMT
ended up going to the GC and bought 3 shrubs to replace some dead stuff, my aunt came round with 2 huge evergreen ferns and a phormium that she'd dug out of her garden for me ;D
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Post by Louise on Mar 24, 2011 6:52:31 GMT
went to the GC to buy a clematis armandii they only had one and it was £47.99 needless to say it didn't come home with me, bought two 50p winter damaged plants and gone over plants from the sale area a pot of snowdrops and an A.molis (which had lots of shoots) came home and split up a pot of alpine strawberries and was surprised when 3 vine weevil grubs dropped out (put them on the bird table, revenge is sweet) then spent the rest of the afternoon sowing and pricking out, and just like WLF I'm rapidly running out of space. I forgot I also bought 5 tubers of Jerusalem artichokes haven't grown or eaten them before, trying things that are new this year. Is that what i think it is That's bad, isn't it Those are lovely, Poly, i'm sure you'll like them, send them down here if you don't
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Post by Louise on Mar 24, 2011 6:53:14 GMT
ended up going to the GC and bought 3 shrubs to replace some dead stuff, my aunt came round with 2 huge evergreen ferns and a phormium that she'd dug out of her garden for me ;D What a nice aunt ;D We like her
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Post by Tel on Mar 24, 2011 6:55:59 GMT
Spent the afternoon on the new allotment doing some more digging. If anyone would like a root cutting of mares tail, free to a good home please let me know and i will pop one in the post. I guarantee it will survive the severest winter for you.
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Post by Louise on Mar 24, 2011 7:24:48 GMT
;D
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Post by grindle on Mar 24, 2011 7:44:13 GMT
ended up going to the GC and bought 3 shrubs to replace some dead stuff, my aunt came round with 2 huge evergreen ferns and a phormium that she'd dug out of her garden for me ;D What a nice aunt ;D We like her oh I do, she's always digging things up and giving them to me ;D
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