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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2007 18:45:01 GMT
Well ? ;D
I'm off to the local Wyevale to get my seeds for the trial (hopefully anyway !) and I'd also like to have a bit of a tidy up round the back garden borders. The forecast is good so hopefully we'll all be able to get out and enjoy the garden.
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Post by MamIDdau on Feb 2, 2007 19:13:54 GMT
I'm doing some packing on saturday and hopefully bugger all on sunday!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2007 19:20:20 GMT
Sounds like an ideal Sunday Aprilaydee !!!!
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Post by sweetleaf on Feb 2, 2007 19:28:21 GMT
Out tonight and tomorrow night too! (I think) Its my daughters birthday tomorrow 19! I cant believe its been so long, seems only a few years since she was just a baby.......  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2007 19:42:40 GMT
The children are off to their Dads so I am going to spend the whole weekend in the garden this weekend. A quick question on weeding, do you just use a hoe and chop the weed heads off or do you get on your hands and knees and dig them out?
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Post by sweetleaf on Feb 2, 2007 19:48:05 GMT
I do the hands and knees thing TJ, if youre not sure where your sleeping plants are you can do a lot of damage with a hoe. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2007 20:07:26 GMT
I'm a hands & knees person as well TJ. It's worth getting yourself one of those cushioned kneelers if you've got a lot to do.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2007 20:33:43 GMT
The Six Nations starts tomorrow so it will be a rugby weekend, with some cutting of the back lawn squeezed in at some point if the ground is dry enough. I can't believe how long the grass is.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Feb 2, 2007 21:38:49 GMT
Tomorrow I'm off Gates' GC (humungous and fab) with my sister.. she's never driven there before so we'll be taking a map, torch, flask, sandwiches, hot water bottles and blankets ;D.....
In the afternoon I shall be cooing over any purchases.
On Sunday I'll be chillin' until I go into work at 9pm....hoping that it's quiet so I can use the lab pooter to talk to my gardening pals on GWD!...
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 2, 2007 22:42:43 GMT
Tomorrow I'm off Gates' GC (humungous and fab) with my sister.. she's never driven there before so we'll be taking a map, torch, flask, sandwiches, hot water bottles and blankets ;D..... In the afternoon I shall be cooing over any purchases. On Sunday I'll be chillin' until I go into work at 9pm....hoping that it's quiet so I can use the lab pooter to talk to my gardening pals on GWD!... X Ooooooh Gates GC at Cold Overton nice, I will make sure I'm around tomorrow night to find out what you bought ;D Nice cafe there. I went about 6 weeks ago hadn't been for about a year. Amazed at how big it's got  |
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Post by blackrose on Feb 2, 2007 23:14:24 GMT
Well I've had a couple of shandies, at the moment my plans are if I can start to re-arrange things around my new pond. Will get back to you when i kan cee thingz strate and the keeborde  |
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Post by Spruance on Feb 2, 2007 23:28:02 GMT
I have some jobs to do in the GH, and would also like to mow the lawn if it stays dry as the grass is getting very long. I really should try to get some digging done too, and also could do with washing out my tomato pots rather than leaving it until the day before I need to use them. I've got 3 months yet, so I might just get them done in time.  Mainly just garden maintenance jobs. I was thinking of pruning my roses, but I'll probably give that a miss in view of the forecast frosts. Then of course there's the compost heap. The 'working' side is full. The other side is full, and the overflow (bags stacked behind the shed) is also full up. It's not a terribly attractive job but I need to empty one bin otherwise we'll have compost coming out of our ears. It's just a question of what to do with it all. |
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Post by blackrose on Feb 2, 2007 23:36:19 GMT
Want my address?? ;D
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 3, 2007 7:57:55 GMT
Well, I shall mostly be entertaining smallest and hospital visiting but I hope to manage a teeny time in the garden to dig some holes to plunge my bulb pots in as they all growing fast. For some reason my GH and PT are reasonably clean and tidy...I don't know how that happened! I may get smallest to fill up a wheelbarrow with molehills and dump them on a veggie bed. I don't know if she'll class that as entertainment these days as she's getting a bit grown up (7).
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Post by roxann57 on Feb 3, 2007 8:12:04 GMT
Just pottering around at home today (waiting for a new washing machine and have no idea what time it will turn up  ) Feeling slightly fragile today as was at a works do last night ;D OH cut the grass yesterday so I really should get outside and have a tidy up - maybe later when the fog in my head clears. |
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Post by blackrose on Feb 3, 2007 8:58:39 GMT
I will just be pottering about today, may start moving the shrubs to go along the frnce. Grass to wet to cut. Will go to B&Q start getting the ferns and grasses for around the pond.
Just a general tidy up.
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Post by MamIDdau on Feb 3, 2007 9:41:24 GMT
we've got some ornamental grasses in at the moment that I want to get but not allowed  I hope to god there's some left after we've moved house or I'll tell boyf he can buy me the more expensive ones from j parkers! I'd like to get some Azaleas too but I'm not as fussed about them at the moment. |
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Post by Plocket on Feb 3, 2007 9:56:15 GMT
Doing LP's ballet and swimming lessons this morning then we have to meet up with my M&D about OH doing some work for them. Tomorrow we are taking MIL out for her birthday.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2007 12:49:22 GMT
I've done cleared out the front front border (the one in front of the front wall so more or less on the pavement) of dead stuff, and I cut the bamboo down as only had two leaves at the top, hopefully it will regrow, if not I have masses of it eslewhere I can dig up and replant. Then I weeded through the front garden borders, its beautiful out there today and I noticed a huge amount of crocuses coming up. The Bergenia is flowering beautifully, looks a lot happier now that the leaves aren't waterlogged. I have one more bed to weed through and drag dead stuff out of then I will go to the gc and get some compost and mulch to shovel around a bit. Its like spring, I have a tshirt and hoodie on with jeans, my back was getting really hot from the sun!! Before I do anything else however, I will be popping to the corner shop for a can of coke, a baguette and some pate for me lunch  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2007 12:49:52 GMT
Oh, and I have still resisted sowing ANYTHING yet.
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Post by Barbara on Feb 3, 2007 13:42:47 GMT
we're building a new side fence, the wind got the other one. trouble is the compost bin is in the way, cant really move it tooo heavy, so working round it and huffing and puffing about it. just dug out plants to send to pa, and jonah. i will get the lovely job of cleaning up where the concrete was mixed, you can bet you'r life on that. i am amazed at how much stuff has started to grow already.  barbara |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Feb 3, 2007 17:35:20 GMT
Such a lovely day today so warm After doggy walks I set to and cut back the invasive pyracanthas which is strangling one of my Amelancias - felt sorry as the birdies need somewhere to hide - so I left all the cut off branches in a pile - hope I did the right thing My Witch Hazel is also fighting with the pyracanthas and the Amelancia  so that had a good trim too  Meeting two GF's 2nite in wine bar for dinner  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2007 18:33:05 GMT
Been busy all week helping dad with fitted wardrobes and lighting so im having a well earned day off tomorrow.
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Post by paul r82 on Feb 4, 2007 15:06:40 GMT
I had a trip to Eggleston Hall Gardens and Nursery today, the gardens were looking really good with a fine display of snowdrops, i bought a few plants to go in my garden which i am completely overhauling at the minute. I bought: Cornus stolonifera 'Flaviramea' Cryptomeria japonica 'elegans compacta' Helleborus orientalis mixed hybrid Helleborus orientalis 'Primrose' Callistemon citrinus 'splendens' Then had a drive back over the Durham Dales in the glorious sunshine  and now i'm of to work to stay the night and look after my bosses dogs. |
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) Feeling slightly fragile today as was at a works do last night ;D OH cut the grass yesterday so I really should get outside and have a tidy up - maybe later when the fog in my head clears.
I hope to god there's some left after we've moved house or I'll tell boyf he can buy me the more expensive ones from j parkers! I'd like to get some Azaleas too but I'm not as fussed about them at the moment.
so that had a good trim too 
and now i'm of to work to stay the night and look after my bosses dogs.