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Post by 4pygmies on Nov 18, 2006 8:13:50 GMT
Here! It looks like a nice day outside after all the lashing rain of the last few days. Obviously this means I have to stay indoors with youngest daughter.....I think I'm going to sit her in front of a pile of cardboard, glitter and glue and tell her to make Xmas cards for her classmates. This means (I hope) that I can stay in the conservatory and start a major clear up in there. It's been my seed place/office/school garden planning room and studio so it's a REAL mess. I have to clear the desk at least as I have some more seeds to sow. I'm going to keep them in there for the winter as I'm ashamed to admit that if I put them in my PT they'll be totally ignored as I think there's a rat tunnel in there so I'm NOT going in there....until OH has had a look! At least I'm nearly in the garden and I can watch the birds feeding from the conservatory. What are you all up to?
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Post by oldmoleskins on Nov 18, 2006 8:33:35 GMT
Similar weather tale here, just up the road, and near the coast - bright, no frost, lovely, so on the basis it's staying dry, I'll get the mower on the tractor and cut s-l-o-w-l-y so as not to tear stuff. It's a foot tall in places again... then there's a ton of cherrywood to log and store, and the oak I took down last week.
With bacon roll breaks and visitor interruption, that should take care of daylight hours. After dark, I mainly drink.
Tomorrow - who knows...? Probably most of what I planned to do today...
OM.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2006 8:55:51 GMT
I am going to try and have a tidy up as OH relaid the patio for me in the area which was formerly known as lawn, Need to have a serious look at how many plants I have in pots and decide what is going where.
There is also a chance that I am going to encounter some footings where the patio was before from an old raised bed that was there when we bought the house, can not remember if I got them out previously.
Busy busy busy
Sara ;D
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 18, 2006 9:08:34 GMT
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Post by JennyWrenn on Nov 18, 2006 9:47:55 GMT
It's a lovely day here too in Macclesfield, Cheshire so what better way to spend the day then
In Tesco (I dont think sooooooooooooooooooooo)
In the Garden (yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees)
So two more trees to plant but better visit the garden centre first cos I get caked in mud and not a pretty sight
Soil is clay here and holds the water - dreadful situation sometimes especially when planting bulbs - these go in a new bed or in containers
jenny wrenn
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2006 10:06:12 GMT
Footings definitely still there, I love using the sledgehammer.
Sara ;D
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Post by Dr Bill on Nov 18, 2006 10:49:47 GMT
I hope to get some plants in that arrived a week ago. I hope they are still OK. With the building work and all the coming and going associated with it they have been neglected. I also want to try to clean the path to the back door. We are sick of tramping mud in everytime we come into the house. We also have to go look at fireplaces and carpets. The electrician is coming again tomorrow (yes, tomorrow, Sunday.  ) so after church we are going to my daughter's for lunch. |
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Post by Jonah on Nov 18, 2006 10:56:38 GMT
Doubtful I'll get much done at all. OH is working, so I am home alone with the children. I am not going shopping with all 3 of them on a saturday, the garden is still out of bounds, but I might get them out on the green if it stays bright. They are already getting a bit stir crazy, time to sit them down to design some cards for christmas. You might see me popping on here quite a lot today.....  My Iris Louisianas arrived from T & M this morning, I keep looking at them wistfully, but apart from poking a hole in the bags to let the air in I don't see much happening to them.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2006 12:00:00 GMT
hi everyone, its a lovely dry, but cold day here in wakefield. theres nothing much for me to do in the garden today, i did check how my hyacinths were doing in the shed today, they have been in 7 weeks and they are doing well. Going out tonight to the pub with mates and having a lazy day tommorow. hope every one has a great weekend
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Post by Plocket on Nov 18, 2006 14:13:08 GMT
Bright and dry here but little chance to get into the garden We've done ballet and swimming this morning, then I had to rush back to the baths because my friend left her coat there but had driven miles to visit some family so couldn't get back before the school was locked up. Shortly I'm taking LP to a birthday party and by the time we get home it will be her bedtime - phew!!!  Tomorrow we are heading over to mum and dad's to restore the bedrooms to normality because the painter has finished in them. He hasn't finished the sitting room though so we will go and sort that next week probably. And sometime or other I must go and take the hanging basket bracket down because the porch work is starting tomorrow - fingers crossed!!! Enjoy the weekend everyone! |
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Post by magrich on Nov 18, 2006 16:32:43 GMT
 finally managed to get a day with no rain and not much wind, so started to rake up leaves. I am sure that I raked more leaves rom the bed under my dwarf apple tree than ever were on it!!! Guess what I found when clearing leaves off the grass............daisies!!!! should I tell them it is november? 5 black bags full of leaves later.........wind picking up again and throwing more leaves down. still there is always tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2006 18:21:08 GMT
My day was not very productive as I wanted to remove some Footings of an old raised bed that was built by one the previous owners of this house, We had removed all but the footings as did not mattere as was under the patio but patio has been moved and the area is going to be a flower bed. The Bl**dy footings are huge unable to be removed by hand so will have to hire a machine next weekend. Best laid plans eh! Sara |
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Post by Dr Bill on Nov 18, 2006 19:16:59 GMT
I got my plants in. The shrubs I have just heeled in because they will have to be moved again in the spring. The bulbs and perennials are (I hope) in their final positions. This afternoon we have been looking at carpets, tiles and sofas  |
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Post by Jonah on Nov 18, 2006 20:39:19 GMT
Hooray, I got in the garden! Managed to get out for about an hour, haven't done so for weeks. While 2 children cut the grass on the green with a pair of scissors [that kept them busy!] managed to get my Irises into some pots with a little help from the 3 y old and do a bit of raking before the baby woke up. Then they all had fun in a big muddy puddle. But I didn't mind, it was nice to be out, a lovely day. Hopefully tomorrow will be nice too, dare I look at a forecast?  What plants did you have to put in Dr Bill? <verynoseysmiley> |
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Post by Dr Bill on Nov 18, 2006 20:50:51 GMT
What plants did you have to put in Dr Bill? <verynoseysmiley> I don't mind you being nosey Planted several clumps of Scillla nutans (English bluebells) Drift of tulip Apricot Beauty 6 Polemonium "Autumn Beauty" (Jacob's ladder) 6 Campanula glomerata Vburnum bodatensis "Dawn" (yes I know, but it does give some winter colour) Hamamellis mollis (with-hazel) Chimanenthus praecox (Winter sweet) The plants all looked OK |
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Post by Jonah on Nov 19, 2006 10:29:39 GMT
Must feel like christmas Dr Bill, all those lovely plants to play with! I tried to google your Polemonium, but couldn't find it, kept getting linked to an Iberis Autumn Beauty . Hope they all do well. |
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Post by sweetleaf on Nov 19, 2006 10:56:19 GMT
Off to the lottie today, to see how things are after my break and hopefully to plant some fruit bushes. I have been given a load of timber and hope to be able to use that for more raised beds. We had a nice bit of frost last night though so the ground may be a little hard...but some of the nasties must surely have died so its all good! UPDATE OH did a disappearing trick, so I waited all day for nothing. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Nov 19, 2006 16:30:59 GMT
I hope you all had a better weekend than me. Youngest daughter's been really poorly all weekend so I've been in best Mummy mode for the past 24 hours. I've nipped out to feed the goats and shut chickens in etc and I've seen 3 rats at least every time. Sent OH out with the airgun and he didn't see one! How do they know? (oh no! Do they lie in wait just for me??)Now daughter's feeling a bit better and it's dark. No gardening at all! How does that work? Poorly child didn't stop OH going out for the evening, going up the pub for Sunday lunchtime and now he's asleep on the sofa while I cook tea! Life's not fair is it??
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Nov 19, 2006 16:50:53 GMT
Aw <hug> 4P. I hope chick is better soon. I have spent this weekend MOSTLY BORED (I can hear my Mummy now 'Only boring people get bored') HHHwell! My OH got all jealous and huffy about the amount of time I'm spending on the computer... which is REALLY him saying that HE wants to play with it (just ask...)  So he asked me not to go on-line apart from checking my emails (thankyou 4P) ...so on Friday I had to watch CHRISTINE'S GARDEN followed by JOHNNY'S KINGDOM and then a repeat of GW. Yesterday I was too busy anyway as son and DiL came for lunch.......but last night watched horrid dvd....I had said that I wouldn't go on the computer all weekend...BUT today we came to an agreement...I won't sit up here (our computer is in the box-bedroom upstairs) all night, just this afternoon and will go and be attentive and wifely downstairs later...well 'Lost' is on again so I don't really mind.... No gardening done this weekend...but did take son and DiL around the garden and gave them a few cuttings. ;D |
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Post by Dr Bill on Nov 19, 2006 18:29:22 GMT
Must feel like christmas Dr Bill, all those lovely plants to play with! I tried to google your Polemonium, but couldn't find it, kept getting linked to an Iberis Autumn Beauty . Hope they all do well. Sorry Jonah. I think I had a brainstorm The polymonium variety is in fact Purple Rain |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2006 8:23:34 GMT
Morning all, We decided in the death to build a raised bed over the footings which were at least 14" deep by 12" wide. Will take a pic when finished. Sara |
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Post by piggingardener on Nov 20, 2006 12:20:19 GMT
Had a really good tidy over the weekend. A couple of hours on Saturday and another couple yesterday. I cut back my very overgrown escallonia, solanum, twisted cherry and conifer hedge. Tidied up lots of fallen leaves and cut back the persicaria red dragon. That's the garden more or less put to bed for the winter now. Just a little bit more tidying of fallen leaves to do.
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) so after church we are going to my daughter's for lunch.
finally managed to get a day with no rain and not much wind, so started to rake up leaves. I am sure that I raked more leaves rom the bed under my dwarf apple tree than ever were on it!!!
