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Post by seaburn on May 18, 2024 13:44:34 GMT
helped husband and daughter cut the beech hedge back.
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Post by seaburn on May 18, 2024 13:45:28 GMT
helped daughter and husband cut back her beech hedge. long and hot day.
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Post by geumgrower on May 18, 2024 14:32:35 GMT
Criminalised two of the borders. (Removed the Honesty!).
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Post by SueA on May 18, 2024 15:36:07 GMT
Planted out one each of 6 different varieties of tomato in 2 gro-bags in the greenhouse yesterday along with another in a pot & 2 mini cucumber plants in pots & weeded the borders in the back garden today, sweat dripping off me both days! 🥵😁
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Post by grindle on May 19, 2024 2:50:36 GMT
thank you Eli no time for gardening yesterday
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Post by jellibeans on May 19, 2024 6:54:10 GMT
Planting out has well and truly begun!! Busy but fun times!
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Post by Andrew on May 19, 2024 11:15:40 GMT
Yesterday I weeded the vegetable patch, and cut the lawn. This morning I've set up the self watering growbags in the green house and added some water before I put the tomato's in later. Got a few perennials and summer bedding plants to hopefully get in the garden/pots this afternoon if it doesn't get too hot.
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Post by ladybird on May 19, 2024 12:51:05 GMT
I`ve been pricking out and potting on. I seriously need another greenhouse or counselling to help me part with my plants into a cold frame and garden
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Post by SueA on May 19, 2024 13:49:24 GMT
Pricked out & planted up in cell trays some cosmos 'Fizzy Rose' & 'Apricotta' & red amaranthus, moved some trays of plants out of the greenhouse & watered in there & planted out sweet peas 'Cupani' & 'Beaujolais' in 2 pots.
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Post by geumgrower on May 19, 2024 14:12:53 GMT
Mixed up a load of compost for her tomatoes, peppers and things. Found a number of oxalis weeds in the greenhouse which she had to remove as I cannot get to them under the staging. Took the flame gun for a walk down the drive to burn off more of the Oxalis. It is a real thug. We have managed over the years to reduce it to a few small seedlings by always burning it off before it flowers.
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Post by Eli on May 19, 2024 16:10:55 GMT
I've been tidying my greenhouse and rearranging the shelving. My garden helping lady did it with me last week. The cacti are tidier now, and the succulents (most of them anyway) have moved out.
My garden lady helped me take all the plants out and we moved the shelves together and I swept the floor. Then she helped me bring all the cacti back in but we left the succulents outside. They'll be all right until I get their summer home ready.
Today I've been watering and putting the cacti in order, because my garden helping lady didn't place them as I wanted, and I needed them all back in while she was here so I didn't say anything, I was just grateful to have some help.
But now they are all positioned as I want them.
I've also been tidying the perspex shelter where my succulents will go when I get around to it in the next few days, and in there I found some Fuchsias I thought were dead but they're not, and some pots of mint, so I brought them out and watered them.
Here are some photos of my cacti. Most of what's on the tall black shelves are cuttings.
Through the greenhouse side window (last photo) you can see into a place built from perspex sheets, where we once grew Fuchsias. It's in a mess now, and full of junk. I will be getting rid of it soon and I hope to construct a new shelter for my succulents.
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Post by grindle on May 20, 2024 2:45:11 GMT
apart from watering in the greenhouse, I didn't get much time for anything else
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Post by balc2 on May 20, 2024 5:26:28 GMT
Wow, you have so many cacti, Eli! I thought I was bad enough when I had over 100 pots of Amaryills! 😂😂😂 You must feel much happier now that you have tidied up the shelter for your plants and have them arranged just as you want them! 👏👏😊
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Post by Eli on May 20, 2024 6:09:05 GMT
Thank you balc2, yes it's one thing I can cross off my 'to do list'
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Post by jellibeans on May 20, 2024 6:43:29 GMT
Looking good Eli.
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