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Post by borderbabe on Mar 23, 2007 15:15:59 GMT
When the clocks go farward and we can really start to think gardening in a big way!!
I've got a long weekend including a shopping trip to Cherbourg and visit to the GC over there.
Hoping to sow seeds, plant early potatoes, dig over cutting patch etc etc
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Post by isabella on Mar 23, 2007 17:11:33 GMT
I'm hoping to spend as much time as I can in the garden on Saturday and begrudgingly (sp.) and do some washing,ironing and housework - all those boring sort of jobs  on Sunday |
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 23, 2007 17:42:58 GMT
I'm working and training new starters (yay!). Done all my gardening today. Well, still haven't decided what to do with the lavenders and mints but I think I'm going to put them into other pots which I don't possess yet so no rush.
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 24, 2007 6:47:35 GMT
My Mum's ride on mower is back from its service so, if it's dry enough, I shall have to try and cut down the prairie under the fruit trees with it. I'm not very good with it as it always seems to break down when I use it......  then I shall sow three packets of sunflower seeds with the kiddies I hope. We are going all out with the sunflowers this year! I suppose I shall have to have a go at the ironing too......... |
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Post by andy on Mar 24, 2007 7:22:04 GMT
It's going to get warm next week guys....could reach 20 deg C in some areas. The shorts will be out and hopefully it'll make my conservatory toasty warm and that'll get my cannas moving. Got to work this weekend but i can bring the van home and get rid of some rubbish from the garden. Started planning my easter weekend already. I'm going to pluck up the courage to ask my dad if i can borrow some money off him to get the garden finnished. Should only cost around £600 but i'm flat broke at the moment and i'm fed up with my garden looking like a bomb site. Might even think of having a barbeque during the week just for me and my daughter  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2007 9:56:31 GMT
My greatest joy is being let loose on the ride-on mower, though I hate the steep link down to the lower terracing. No idea how big the area is to cut in all, but I can make it last a day!
At first I used to cut it just before the Boss came over so he saw it to best effect, but having been caught out once or twice by him turning up unexpectedly and it looking a bit ragged we agreed I would go over it at least every week that the weather allows, and as often as I think it should be.
So now when I want a mindless few hours I decide the grass needs cutting.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2007 10:45:04 GMT
Have managed so far to get some sowing down...whey hey...also need to get the beds weeded and the grass cut already. ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Mar 25, 2007 11:22:25 GMT
OH has been slaving over the new veg bed making the frame and filling it with compo ;D...I was allowed to do a little light compost sieving and helped rake the bed.
We've covered it back over with plastic for now as it looks like a BIG LITTER TRAY!...how on earth are we going to keep the cat off it when we sow?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2007 12:36:01 GMT
It's the weekend ... and I've got to work But will have lots of free time next week, so hopefully Andy's prediction re. a mini heatwave will come true. Got out for about half an hour today, watered for the first time this year and put a little mineral bottle cloche over an emerging lupin (my only surviver from last year) which is being eaten by something. Not slugs treated garden with nematodes at beginning of month) ... something which is snapping the baby stems clean off - so hopefully the cloche will deter the mystery creature. ... cheers ... |
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Post by SteveC on Mar 25, 2007 15:50:01 GMT
What's all this about an extra hour of daylight?  It's ten to five and I've had to scuttle back to the computer because it's dark and raining outside  Steve |
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 25, 2007 16:41:28 GMT
still sunny here, slight breeze picked up but been sat out in the garden since I finished work with the midges.
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Mar 25, 2007 17:15:42 GMT
Aprilyadee........you work with midges ;D  I came home from work just after 4 and have had a good couple of hours in the garden ;D. Planted the rest of my bulbs, nerines and lilies, divided and top dressed some of my pond plants, moved my euphorbia out of reach of a puppy and planted a climbing rose ;D. Hallujah.................I love the light nights..............summer's on its way at long last  S x |
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Post by Chuckles on Mar 25, 2007 21:35:50 GMT
Hallujah.................I love the light nights..............summer's on its way at long last S x Ain't it fab Susie ;D I didn't come in from the garden until 7.45 ;D |
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Post by Mr Grinch on Mar 26, 2007 10:02:51 GMT
I think i picked the wrong day to do some hard landscaping ! I concreted the floor of my potting shed, and finished of a load of pointing on my new patio on Saturday. It was cold, damp and very gloomy ! Sunday was great, more sun, which helped the concrete to go off ! Tomorrow gonna be even better, 18c they reckon !!
Mr G
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on Sunday
then I shall sow three packets of sunflower seeds with the kiddies I hope. We are going all out with the sunflowers this year! I suppose I shall have to have a go at the ironing too......... 
