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Post by Eli on Jun 22, 2020 17:38:05 GMT
I hope you'll be able to save some lavenders grindle ...
All I've done today is empty rain water from containers/trays that didn't have drainage holes - like the trays you buy in wilco etc. They were full to the brim with all the recent rain. I put the plants to drain away and I'll have to get some trays with drainage holes for them soon.
I also gave tomato liquid feed to the tomatoes and some Fuchsias, I have the rest to do tomorrow (if I can get around to it )
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Post by grindle on Jun 23, 2020 3:49:37 GMT
unfortunately they were quite old plants and were pretty big, I don't think they would have transferred very well, I'll wait until it's all finished and replace them. Finished clearing everything, now it's just a case of waiting for the work to be done and getting it tidy again, I think the shrubs at the side of the house need a good haircut
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Post by SueA on Jun 23, 2020 8:00:48 GMT
Mowed the lawn, trimmed the box circle around the plinth on the lawn & dead-headed the very tatty looking roses again.
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Post by lesley on Jun 23, 2020 8:05:44 GMT
Just watering and dead heading, still looking after mum
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Post by Eli on Jun 23, 2020 8:16:07 GMT
Pity you couldn't have taken some cuttings of the Lavenders grindle, they are easy to propagate
I hope your mother is all right lesley
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Post by ladybird on Jun 23, 2020 15:52:42 GMT
yesterday I cleared parts of my front garden border as I need a space for all these nicotianias and petunias in the greenhouse . It was quite overgrown as I haven't weeded or planted in it for two years and the paths are covered with strawberry plants and alchemilla mollis My neighbours couch grass has invaded about a third way into my garden but I have her permission to spray it on her end as well as my own
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Post by Eli on Jun 23, 2020 20:31:57 GMT
Oh Strawberry plants are a nuisance aren't they ladybird, I have them coming up everywhere, and I got rid of my Alchemilla mollis for the same reason - couldn't keep up with it.
Today I planted up some tubs and baskets, and I potted up my pepper seedlings. They are very slow. I also did a lot of weeding.
I recently joined the council's garden waste collecting scheme and got a wheely bin which they will collect every fortnight. The day for collection was today and I thought I wouldn't get the bin in time. However, at 4.20 a.m. this morning it was delivered ! and at 5 a.m. I was filling it from all the sacks of weeds and cut-backs that have mounted up since the spring Then I put it out for collection and it was emptied later in the morning
I've started to fill it for next time
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Post by grindle on Jun 24, 2020 4:16:30 GMT
would have been good Eli but I don't have the space at the moment to keep them Spent yesterday morning cutting a tree down, it was a type of Prunus I think but had died fortunately the branches weren't that thick just very wiry, still have the bottom half to do, I cut a lot of it up for the recycling, then it got too hot
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Post by SueA on Jun 24, 2020 7:34:54 GMT
Re-potted a philadelphus into a larger pot & potted on a rooted 'Twice in a Blue Moon' rose cutting which I'm growing for a neighbour & potted up a couple of courgettes, tomatoes & cucumber plants into final pots. So hot that I was dripping with sweat & had to give up & go in & get changed.
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Post by ladybird on Jun 24, 2020 11:48:27 GMT
I have two large brown recycling bins Eli and filled both last week ( over here you can have as many as you like free ), it`s great you got your stuff away. I also keep two food bins in the kitchen, one for the council bin with meat and cooked food and one for my black garden compost bin. I made the awful mistake a few years ago of putting spent alchemilla mollis and forget me knots in the compost bin as I was weeding seedlings of both from my veg beds for years. My fairly new black compost bin which the council provides, has produced wonderful compost and I think I`ll ring today and see if I can get another one(only £10 for delivery as they are free )
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Post by Eli on Jun 24, 2020 21:39:20 GMT
It's great that it's free for you ladybird. I only have room for one council bin. Many years ago I bought some plastic rubbish bins from a local cheap shop, I punched holes in their sides and I make compost in those. I hope you can get another compost bin, it's good to make your own. I hope you don't put any more Alchemilla and Forget me Nots in it easy to do I suppose ….
I haven't done anything much today except watering.
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Post by grindle on Jun 25, 2020 4:12:06 GMT
nothing in the garden, with it being a hot day I went and had a visit with Sue, first since lockdown, it was good catching up
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Post by SueA on Jun 25, 2020 10:28:52 GMT
Potted up some rooted mint cuttings, put some pak choi from cell trays into a couple of large containers & potted on an agapanthus plant which I grew from seed in November 2015 - just started to flower for the first time! Too hot to do anything else but we did go out on the patio at 11pm last night listening to 2 hedgehogs grunting at each other - not sure if it was a fight or a bit of 'courting' !
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 25, 2020 12:22:55 GMT
I wonder if we get that here in Pembrokeshire Eli Do you have to pay for it? Will check our Council website later as off out now.
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Post by Eli on Jun 25, 2020 19:57:35 GMT
It might be worth you finding out sweetpea , the bin is quite big and takes a lot. Having said that I have already filled it for next time, and that won't be until a week next Tuesday It cost £44 for the 'season' here in Carmarthenshire (i.e. March to November) but over the year that's less than £1 a week, and I think it's worth it since it saves me loading the sacks into the car and emptying them into the bay at the tip. It's getting a bit much for me now with my aching limbs
It has been too hot to do much today so I did a bit of watering this morning and a bit of weeding this evening.
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