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Post by Cherry on Sept 5, 2024 9:51:25 GMT
Started my least favourite daily task now ....sweeping up acorns from our 3 patios, such a lethal combination as they can send you skidding when stepped on as I have discovered countless times unfortunately. Seed harvesting as well. I live next door to Low Hatters Wood which is a small park made up of oak trees. I have the same problem and more, especially when the leaves drop and can reach knee height in places. They are quiet and pretty neighbours and I knew what life would be like when I bought the house.
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 5, 2024 15:39:04 GMT
Finished behind the compost heaps. Filled 4 black trays with logs and 5 buckets of riddled compost from where the heaps have gone through the wire netting. Took all the stumps I could find to the re-cycling place, plus tow big boxes of twigs. Nowhere to put the shreddings so easier to throw them away. Weary now.
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Post by jellibeans on Sept 5, 2024 19:15:16 GMT
Cherry we too live is a very rural area, surrounded only by farmland and woodland. I can cope with the leaves....bag, store and forget for a couple years and hey presto lovely leafmould. Like you we too knew what we were in for when we moved here 42 years ago.....the beauty it holds and the remoteness , only one nearby neighbour, is well worth the acorns!!!!
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Post by balc2 on Sept 5, 2024 20:59:22 GMT
Haven't done anything on the balcony today. I only stepped out for a few minutes in the early evening & discovered one of the dwarf tomato plants had ripening tomatoes that I hadn't seen up till now!
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 6, 2024 12:34:27 GMT
Tried planting some Crocus, ended up digging a big bucket full of hard lime mortar out before I could. Added a bucket of compost to replace the removed rocks. Thought I had removed all that stuff when I dug over that patch last year.
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 6, 2024 15:18:38 GMT
Pain in my foot has put paid to any more gardening for today. It is beyond anything. Back is bad too. And I could not pick the Apples as I intended as my neck is so bad I could not look up to see where the apples are on the tree.
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 6, 2024 18:30:13 GMT
Too wet to do anything today, heavy rainstorms for most of the day.
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Post by seaburn on Sept 6, 2024 18:52:04 GMT
finally started to dig over a weedy & neglected veg bed. No acorns for me just lots of beech nuts
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Post by SueA on Sept 6, 2024 21:54:48 GMT
Mowed the lawn. 😊
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Post by grindle on Sept 7, 2024 2:21:08 GMT
no gardening, getting the house in order before I go away so that OH knows where to find things
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Post by Andrew on Sept 7, 2024 20:47:47 GMT
The rain stopped me doing anything in the garden, apart from a trip to the compost bin with this weeks kitchen peelings and teabags.
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 8, 2024 16:41:26 GMT
Nothing. Rain and visitors.
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Post by grindle on Sept 9, 2024 2:41:20 GMT
nothing again
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Post by balc2 on Sept 9, 2024 17:39:01 GMT
While I haven't done much lately it seems I may have done a little more than some here - for a change! What I've been doing, other than the normal deadheading & watering & feeding, is start to organize the pots of flowers on the balcony. Some I have already brought in & put on the kitchen windowsill (it's 3m (10ft) long) which I've already filled up & even started doubling up of pots, one atop another!
Some pots have been moved around on the balcony, filling some of the spaces they used to be occupied by the pots now on the kitchen windowsill, others have been moved out into the light, like the Cyclamen I grew over the winter on the balcony railings. These have been resting all summer inside the shelving units on the balcony wall. Two plants have some flowers while others are just starting to grow once again. I only seem to have lost 3 or 4 of them.
I have moved Geraniums & Pelargoniums around trying to find the best positions for them for another month when I will again assemble the mini-greenhouse as well as the big round white table it sits on for at least 6 or 7 months of the year. I also brought in one of the 'Dragon Wings' Begonias. I may not have room for all 6 plants as they have grown much bigger than I expected! One thing about these plants I've noticed is that the flowers, while being deep pink on the balcony, when they have been in the kitchen for a while the newer flowers get gradually lighter in colour.
Sometime this week I want to get a bag of compost that has Johns Innes compost in it. I want to empty a square tub that is more or less empty & has served to raise up some plants from the balcony floor. It has a few spring flowering bulbs in it which I want to save & replant for next year.
One of my brothers gave us a rose for our golden anniversary, called, appropriately, 'Golden Wedding', at the beginning of August. The first flower opened & has since died & I'm not expecting any more this year. I want to plant it in the tub that I want to get some John Innes compost for. My wife wants me to put the tub where we can see from the balcony door. At present it's at the far end of the balcony & can't be seen from the balcony door. I have a tub there with lots of Grape Hyacinths in it but there are Morning Glory plants in it but I don't want to move the tub till they die off. When they are finished I shall just move them around.
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 9, 2024 19:42:36 GMT
The only thing I did today was harvest some more TropiCanna Lily seedpods.
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