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Post by grindle on Jun 13, 2021 4:13:53 GMT
no gardening again, down on Looe beach for the day
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Post by SueA on Jun 13, 2021 7:38:37 GMT
Love Looe grindle, we've stayed in cottages there a couple of times years ago - I wouldn't want to try to park there at the moment though! All I did was add 9 big buckets of water from the water butts (all now empty) to the pond which had gone down about 4 or 5in due to the heat & the massive plants in it sucking up the water too.
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Post by Andrew on Jun 13, 2021 10:12:18 GMT
The beach sounds a lovely place to be on a day like this grindle. Hope it's a bit cooler there, and not too crowded too. All I can presently anticipate doing outside today is watering when the sun goes down this evening.
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Post by Eli on Jun 13, 2021 14:48:10 GMT
We went to Looe a few times too I'm glad you enjoyed with your family grindle ...
I watered, including cacti, and moved pots of old spring bulbs to an alley way to finish dying back, lots of green leaves still on them. I don't know how they'll do next year though, not very well usually. Swept some paths and it was too hot to do anything else.
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Post by grindle on Jun 14, 2021 3:34:33 GMT
it was surprisingly unbusy, although it did start to fill up later in the day, but we were on the way back then:D All I did was watering and sitting in the shade
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Post by SueA on Jun 14, 2021 8:06:49 GMT
All I did was the watering & feeding the wildlife, I've managed to strain a muscle in my arm lugging buckets & watering cans around everywhere but I've still got another arm I can use! The pond area is proving very popular, every time I go down there the male or female blackbird flies out & they have a couple of youngsters who sit in the arbour or under the ivy down there along with the frogs wandering around so I have to tread carefully!
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Post by Eli on Jun 14, 2021 18:18:35 GMT
Sorry to hear about your arm SueA
I haven't done anything in the garden today except watering some rooted cuttings.
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Post by grindle on Jun 15, 2021 3:16:20 GMT
hope your arm gets better SueAwatered in the greenhouse and all the pots, cut the grass and some of the edging before the sun moved round and got too hot
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Post by SueA on Jun 15, 2021 7:24:46 GMT
Just watering again & I potted up a little courgette plant into a large pot. Took down 2 half hanging baskets from the fence & emptied them out but I ran out of compost so haven't refilled them yet. I'm going to put them in a different position afterwards, just haven't decided where, as I can't reach them to water anymore as everything in front of them has grown so much.
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Post by Eli on Jun 15, 2021 15:53:26 GMT
I tidied some pots with propagated plants from roots and cuttings, that were on some shelves (I don't know what to do with them) and watered lots of things. Pulled up a row of radishes that were dry and tough and really inedible It was too hot to do anything else ...
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Post by daitheplant on Jun 15, 2021 17:35:26 GMT
Spent a couple of hours at the allotments pulling out Mares Tail:
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Post by grindle on Jun 16, 2021 3:15:16 GMT
just watering
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Post by SueA on Jun 16, 2021 7:23:47 GMT
Pricked out the last of the flower seedlings in the kitchen, potted on a couple of sweet pepper plants into larger pots in the greenhouse, went to the Park garden centre & got some more organic compost & planted out some pelargoniums into various pots on the patio. Weeded & watered the pots & baskets.
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Post by Cherry on Jun 16, 2021 7:51:13 GMT
I worked in the garden at the farm on Sunday and Monday and Monday was just shy of 30 deg. I had to sit in the shade at some stages and wait until the sun moved to cause a shadow. On Sunday Natasha and I pulled out the wild rose and nettles which had grown through, and taller, than the beech hedges lining the drive. A hot job. However, I don’t think I will be needed back there now, but it is very good for my strength.
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Post by libralady on Jun 16, 2021 17:22:12 GMT
no gardening again, down on Looe beach for the day I could tell you a very funny story about Looe beach. Sitting there one day as a newly wed, my husband suddenly sprang up and started running towards the sea. My thoughts were "blimey, I didn't know things were that bad after only 2 weeks." People round about also looked a bit bemused wondering what he was doing. Then we could see him frantically scooping seawater up and pouring it over his front. A seagull had deposited a present on his shirt and he hot-footed it to the sea to wash it off.
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