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Post by Eli on Jul 22, 2024 6:31:11 GMT
Yesterday I nailed a small wooden trellis to the posts at the side entrance, It has been lying around for a few years waiting for me to fix it somewhere. I want my Jasmine and white Passiflora to wind themselves around it.
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The pallet in the background is where I'm going to have a gate (one day soon ... hopefully ?)
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Post by jellibeans on Jul 22, 2024 7:22:01 GMT
Nothing yesterday as my hubs has banned me from all garden tasks until I'm fully recovered from my current back issues and also that the antibiotics for another ailment I'm taking have kicked in. So I will just have to watch the weeds strangling our beautiful blooms. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by geumgrower on Jul 22, 2024 12:19:51 GMT
Wandering, weeding, watering. Cherry . I have broken many a spade and fork, just leaning on them. These days I use a 6 feet long wrecking bar instead of using the spade as a lever. Not done much, I am trying to avoid exacerbating the shoulder muscle problem so that if we did want to go out somewhere we could. Not that we go out much in the school holidays. Too many brats in the places we like to go to. Did manage to remove some huge Salvias which are hiding places for a huge number of snails. The roots go down for a fortnight.
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Post by Eli on Jul 22, 2024 19:18:30 GMT
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Post by grindle on Jul 23, 2024 2:22:40 GMT
hope you're back to full health soon jellibeans ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) nothing in the garden but in the afternoon I made a start hacking back brambles and weeds coming from a spare piece of land that was blocking the path, a mammouth job ![](https://i.ibb.co/VBxLqXJ/452209642-8084080434986029-2254072514448019684-n.jpg) it's like this every year, the owner arrived an hour into my attempt, so I left him to it, I think someone must have complained especially as this morning the 'Bloom' judges are coming
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Post by jellibeans on Jul 23, 2024 7:13:24 GMT
Thank you Eli and grindle. We get that a lot round here too and it really makes me cross to have to walk in the road so as to escape being scratched by brambles. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by SueA on Jul 23, 2024 18:58:06 GMT
Picked the first ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse & second mini cucumber. Planted out some seedlings, cosmos, Malope, amaranths, chrysanth etc, only for room for a few of each so will have to clear some spaces in the borders for the rest!
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Post by balc2 on Jul 24, 2024 5:27:19 GMT
Yesterday I gave my plants their weekly feed and that was all I did on the balcony. That is as well as deadheading the petunias and morning glory, but then that's part of my daily routine in the summer!
Before going to bed last night I stepped outside for a few minutes and I could smell a perfume 🤔 I think it came from the petunias on the balcony railings. I did stick my nose in one of the flowers and it did seem to be coming from them! This is the 1st time l've smelt them so strongly! Must have been because it was a warm, still evening.
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Post by grindle on Jul 25, 2024 4:02:11 GMT
pruned back a couple of shrubs and some deadheading in the morning, a garden visit in the afternoon with the club, very much a garden in progress
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Post by balc2 on Jul 25, 2024 5:45:59 GMT
Like the previous night I stepped out onto the balcony for a couple of mi before going to bed but, unlike then, it was very windy! So no perfume from the plants this time! In fact it was so windy I feared for my fuchsia standard and so I moved it a bit further inside the balcony in the hope it wouldn't be damaged during the night if the wind continued to be strong.
I spent a couple of hours inside, but mostly outside, the balcony yesterday morning. Inside was mainly deadheading but I also played my favourite game "musical plants"! 😂I moved some plants around so that they might get better lighting. The Dragon Wings Begonias were getting too big where they were & were shading the pots of mini tomatoes. Trying to find a better position for them, a difficult proposition on such a full balcony, I finally decided that the Amaryills could be moved further back on the shelves where they have spent the last few months and then I could put the Begonias in their place and that is what I did. Now the tomatoes have better light and I can see the begonias better! 👍
On the outside of the balcony I continued the deadheading of the Petunias and Morning Glory as well as training some errant stems into better positions so they can climb up the chicken wire and then the strings to the top of the balcony. They have begun flowering abundantly this last week or two. So I took a couple of photos. I can't upload them from my mobile but I will upload some later from the computer.
I also cleared away the narrow strip between the balcony floor and the "lawn". I did this a couple of weeks ago but have to do it several times during the summer. I suppose it's my fault in a way because when I sweep the balcony I sweep the dust and pigeon drippings off the balcony and they end up just a couple of inches outside. When I water the pots and troughs some water inevitably falls out of them and onto the narrow strip bordering it. This provides a fertile place for the grass and other weeds to grow! The council gardeners strim the edges of the *lawn"and this narrow strip but they only do it a couple of times a month so the field bindweed has time to start to climb up the chicken wire as well as the grass making the outside of the balcony look untidy and unkempt. I shall have to get a picture so you can see better what I am trying to describe.
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Post by seaburn on Jul 26, 2024 18:25:17 GMT
just watered all the pots and trays of plants.
just not in the mood to do any really hard graft that is needed.
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Post by grindle on Jul 27, 2024 2:09:53 GMT
after the grass had dried out a bit I managed to cut it but that's as far as I got ![](https://www.free-smileys.com/files/shocked-smileys/841.gif)
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Post by balc2 on Jul 27, 2024 5:28:15 GMT
I didn't get much done either yesterday. Our son & family came round for a couple of hours to say their goodbyes and to have a few pictures taken. Our youngest son came round for a few minutes and then took them back to the airport. He is also going to Spain, but to Mallorca with his family for a week. l didn't get a chance to do anything on the balcony till early evening when I went out to water a hanging basket and a few pots. I did a little deadheading of the petunias and morning glories. I also had a look at the tomato plants which I had put in more compost the day before. I spied my first tomatoes, the size of small peas! Since they have begun to flower I try to remember to tap the flowers each time I go out. Bees are very scarce this year so I can't rely on them to do the work for me.
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Post by Cherry on Jul 27, 2024 5:56:33 GMT
A little light gardening for relaxation as I am still having my rellies to visit and at the same time, the bathroom is being renovated.
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Post by balc2 on Jul 27, 2024 19:16:12 GMT
A little light gardening for relaxation as I am still having my rellies to visit and at the same time, the bathroom is being renovated. "rellies" ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) Relatives?
I've only done some watering & deadheading.
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