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Post by balc2 on Oct 25, 2024 18:21:26 GMT
I didn't do anything on the balcony yesterday nor with the plants inside the flat 😕 Ditto yesterday as well! 😔 And ditto for today as well! 
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Post by geumgrower on Oct 26, 2024 16:57:04 GMT
Cut down the top 2/3 of the dead Rowan. Made a start cutting the roots so that the stump can be removed. It is still as solid as rock, so going to take a lot of work to get it out. Pain stopped the job. New mini chain saw worked a treat.
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Post by Andrew on Oct 27, 2024 12:20:37 GMT
Nothing in the garden yet, but been out this morning and bought some treated timber as want to make a raised bed for my rhubarb as the ground got a bit waterlogged last winter and it didn't really grow properly until the summer this year. I've got a week off work, so hoping to have a general tidy up over the next week and get the garden ready for the winter.
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Post by balc2 on Oct 27, 2024 21:04:32 GMT
I dare not quote my quoted quote again but another day & nothing got done on the balcony - except that is sweeping away the pigeon droppings that accumulate after a day or two if I don't do it regularly. As the days get shorter & colder they spent more time perched on the third floor balcony railings & so their droppings fall all over my plants & the balcony - &, on more than 1 occasion, even on my head! Oh, I did water the hanging baskets & a few other plants that were a little dry.
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Post by jellibeans on Oct 28, 2024 7:29:43 GMT
Started to gradually bring the tenders under cover but leaving doors open as it's lovely and mild still. Just keeping a close eye on the weather and moving a few every day, hate to have to rush it and be caught out by a sudden frosty cold snap.
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Post by Andrew on Oct 28, 2024 16:27:28 GMT
No gardening as such today, but finished sawing up the last of the old shed ready to get rid of after I'd taken another load of it to the council tip this morning.
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Post by geumgrower on Oct 28, 2024 17:39:24 GMT
Having a badly swollen knee and needing to be able to drive tomorrow, I have done nothing but sit down all day, Very boring too.
There are barrow loads of leaves just waiting to be collected. The dead Sorbus stump is ready to be removed. There are lots of things which need cutting down and shredding for the compost heap, but I cannot do any of them.
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Post by balc2 on Oct 28, 2024 20:25:41 GMT
Sorry to hear about your knee geumgrower . I hope you are OK to drive tomorrow. |
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Post by balc2 on Oct 28, 2024 21:23:49 GMT
Today I transferred my Pansies 'Frizzle Sizzle' from their pots in the mini-greenhouse to the troughs that sit on the middle bar of the balcony railings. But first I had to remove the Carnation plants. I'm not keeping them as they have been a great disappointment. They were grown from seed & I put them in the troughs where I'd hoped they would flower well for my wife. She always says they are her favourite flowers & that they remind her of her home in Spain.  The few that did flower were singles & very small, you could almost expect them to be the wild ones & not the doubles we are used to!
I put 4 Pansies 'Frizzle Sizzle' in each of the troughs & though they may look lost at present I expect them to get bigger & I hope they don't succumb to the Pansy virus that has killed off my plants in other years.
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Post by grindle on Oct 29, 2024 4:50:07 GMT
gave my son some help with sorting a small border out which was full of couch grass and creeping buttercup, also a huge kniphofia that didn't do much in the way of flowering, so he now has a clear bed that he can plant up (if he gets round to it  ) |
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Post by balc2 on Oct 29, 2024 6:15:42 GMT
That was good of you, grindle to help him like that! We all know how difficult it is to get rid of those pernicious creeping weeds! 👏👏 |
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Post by geumgrower on Oct 29, 2024 14:37:05 GMT
Well, the stump is now lying on the ground. Very heavy it is too. There is no sign of any fungal root thingies in the soil, so hopefully we are clear of that. The roots were pretty rotten and snapped easily so waterlogging may have been the problem.
Nice big space with light shade for lots of herbaceous stuff.
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Post by Andrew on Oct 29, 2024 16:26:37 GMT
Those pansies are gorgeous balc2. I've cut the lawn this afternoon, and hoping to get on with making a raised bed and a few other jobs tomorrow. |
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Post by grindle on Oct 30, 2024 4:11:58 GMT
I expect they'll be back next time I go balc2 |
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Post by balc2 on Oct 30, 2024 6:16:14 GMT
Andrew, thanks 👍 I do hope they turn out to be like the picture I copied from the website I bought them from! A few of the tiny plants have buds with colour so I hope to see some flowers soon! grindle it wouldn't be a surprise if they have returned as getting every last scrap of root out is almost impossible! 😕
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