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Post by grindle on Jun 4, 2020 3:35:56 GMT
just watered the greenhouse, took advantage of the rain to do some housework (just what I thought SueA )
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Post by SueA on Jun 4, 2020 8:05:42 GMT
All I did was water in the greenhouse/mini greenhouse & a few of the hanging baskets & fed the wildlife. Didn't catch anything unusual on the night camera but something had been having a scuffle as there were a few small pots knocked over near the patio & I think a young bird must have been in the greenhouse while the door was open during the day yesterday as in the evening there were a few pots knocked over in there as well, checked to see nothing was stuck/hiding before I closed it up.
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 4, 2020 16:16:37 GMT
Decided to cut the grass but it started raining and half hour later it stopped so I ended up getting the lawnmower out after all. All a bit dry so really needs some rain to fall soon. Other than that not a lot.
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Post by Eli on Jun 4, 2020 21:20:29 GMT
It's gone from being too hot to do anything to being too cold to do anything
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Post by grindle on Jun 5, 2020 4:22:26 GMT
set the cucumbers up in the greenhouse as they'd started getting ready to climb, then did a lot of weeding and deadheading, I had loads of tomatoes growing in the border from the compost I put on
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Post by SueA on Jun 5, 2020 8:12:33 GMT
You should pot them up & see what you get grindle! One of my cucumber plants in the greenhouse has a fully grown mini cucumber on it already & I've not even potted it on into it's full size pot yet as I've been trying to make room by planting out everything else in there to make room. I emptied 2 more hanging baskets from the side door & planted them up, the sparrows were zooming in beside me as I threw out some vine weevil grubs from the old compost for them, last year it was our tame robin but we haven't got one as bold this year. One of the baskets I emptied the other day had a huge queen bumble bee sleeping under the compost, I could here the buzzing as I was pulling plants out & she pushed her way out, had to put her amongst the rose blossoms where she gradually woke up.
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Post by grindle on Jun 6, 2020 4:00:07 GMT
I need a bigger greenhouse SueA Pricked out some chinese cabbage and Pak choi seedlings ready to give away watered pots and containers, then got disturbed so no more
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Post by SueA on Jun 6, 2020 8:05:20 GMT
I planted up the hanging basket near the kitchen window with herbs & a hanging basket & little pot at the garage door with bedding & watered in the greenhouse.
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 6, 2020 13:51:39 GMT
Only watering in G'house and tying back tomatoes. Right miserable day so nothing else.
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Post by grindle on Jun 7, 2020 4:57:55 GMT
potted up a piece of dahlia that I'd rooted in water, repotted a coleus, then did housework
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Post by SueA on Jun 7, 2020 7:33:44 GMT
Nothing in the garden other than feeding the wildlife & watering in the greenhouse & then baked a banana loaf cake.
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Post by grindle on Jun 8, 2020 7:20:58 GMT
Started on this rotting container, the bamboo was a bugger to get out, in the end I used a pruning saw and cut it out, it will be rehomed today I managed to save a couple of plants in there, but the clematis was so caught up with the other roots, it was unsaveable Will clear the rest of it today, the compost that came out went on the garden
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Post by SueA on Jun 8, 2020 8:08:59 GMT
That looks like it was 99% bamboo & 1% compost grindle! I've got a similar bamboo in a large pot & I don't think that will ever come out, it must have no compost left in it & be living off fresh air & rain! Only watered in the greenhouse, fed the wildlife & pulled a few dead plants out of the alpine sink by the wall, a few mini iris bulbs etc. did come up in it earlier in the spring but everything else seems to have died over the winter in the heavy rains so I'll replant it - that was a good excuse to go online & order a few things from Stonyford Cottage Gardens.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 8, 2020 9:43:43 GMT
potted up a piece of dahlia that I'd rooted in water, repotted a coleus, then did housework You have got ;your priorities right grindle.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 8, 2020 10:15:01 GMT
I had all the covers from the raised beds taken off and stored away and plants outside hardening off when the cold snap hit. All covers are now back on and the greenhouse is laden . All pots and light stuff was quickly flung into the already stuffed shed, what a palava! Still thinking what to put in the long raised bed: sweet peas, runner beans or tomatoes which might need a plastic cover of sorts to flick over them occasionally . I still have lots of long L shaped galvanised steel bars from my Norfork greenhouse and I think they might be good as corner posts to support a plastic cover ot wire. Just have to drill a few holes here and there (never trow anything away that's my motto )
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