Gardening Thread

[Mochamoos]

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ha ha ha for ENAID sorry no bikini

[Mochamoos]

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Todays work. Imagine grass in the two circles plum slate on both side of the grass, the end will be graveled aroung the veggie patch

[Mochamoos]

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Pmsl I will recreate it at the weekend for you enaid and get OH to take a photo.... lol

[enaid]

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I looked so funny out there today gardening in my bikini with my wellies on... OH nearly wet himself laughing when he came home and saw me!


See there are no piccies of that on here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mochamoos]

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LoL not a chance, he got me a glass of wine instead!

[scoobydoo]

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But I bet its a good way of getting some help in the garden!

[Mochamoos]

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I would love to turn it in to a business but I am not sure I have the vision to do other peoples gardens took months of planning to do my own.


Ive been working my socks off in the garden again today and will be for the rest of the week. Not all my plants have arrived yet so only partially planted, I need to get some kind of gravel as well to go around 'snowman' I was thinking plum slate would look good.

I looked so funny out there today gardening in my bikini with my wellies on... OH nearly wet himself laughing when he came home and saw me!

[scoobydoo]

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Coming on a treat - you have a real talent there - cant you turn it in to a business?

A Young lad I know got made redundant recently and has gone in with someone else doing landscaping etc and is earning a fortune - and he loves it. He is only 21 and suffers from Severe juvenille arthritus - and in fact will have to go in for some serious ops soon - but still manages the job - which as you will appreciate is hard work! Also he has just repaired my daughters car after her crash - wish I had te amount of determination he does. Just shows all young people arent all bad!

Bet you are appreciating the weather today which will help you with your project.

Jan

[Mochamoos]

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another days work...

[scoobydoo]

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I get a lot of my plants from boot sales - which will start in earnest very soon!

thanks for the list of plants.

I nearly had a row with MOH as well because last year we spent hours weeding and getting the borders sorted but did not get Weed control down - now we have to sort it out all over again! I can cope with lots of pots - but not borders .

at our last house the garden was low maintainance and we could just about cope with it.

I think with the price of food we will lall be going back to vegetable gardening soon!

[Mochamoos]

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I LOVE butterflies.... lavender, lobelia, stockes, mint, forget me nots, lilacs, sweet williams, marigolds and daisies butterflies are attracted to all of them.

I buy most of my plants at local markets noramlaly works out cheaper than garden centers, or I got for the online deals, thompson and morgan have a few good deals and so does the gaurdian garden center. Or buy some wild flower seeds and just let them go nuts untill you get round to the garden !

This year I am going hell for leather on the garden as I can not afford to do the house - opposite of you xxx

I have blisters on my hands and just had a flaming row with my partner as he thinks he has done all the work in the garden ... typical! lol well I will be out again int he morning and hopefully all hard landscaping will be done by the end of the day...

[scoobydoo]

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Yes the pear tree is quite old and has started blooming already . The problem is we are renovating the inside and can not cope with the garden as well. its all a bit overwelming. In one corner there is a big bramble bush and last year I tred to get rid of it. Unfortunately a swarm of something flew out ( I did not hang around to find out what) and I ended up running away down the garden fast fast speed! never to return. We have plans but like every one else a shortage of funds and time and it can easily run out of control. We have lots of butterflies here as we are on the edge of an organic farm so I want to put some plants it to attract them to replace what we had to take out when we rebuilt part of the boundry.

[Mochamoos]

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I found some frogs and toads at the end of the garden so I will build them a pond in the morning, hoping they will stick around and eat all the slugs and snails!

Has the pear tree started growing yet? They should really be pruned in their dormant state early spring is usually best.

If the apple tree is diseased I would take it down and burn it so none of the other trees get infected.

Ive been in the garden most the day again today and I really really ache! I have my area's set out so in the morning wil buy silver edging (not sure where from) then edge my circles, build the beds and plant the few plants that have arrived and hopefully lay the stones and sort out my veg patch.....the rain better hold off

[scoobydoo]

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Yes you have done really well! We have been trying to tame our jungle today and am aching all over. We have an old ( very old ) swimming pool that was not shut down over the winter properly an now is in a very sorry state - complete with frogs! We spent hours trying to catch them and put them in the pond before we put chemicals in.

I have a question - we have an old apple tree - where the apples are not eaters or cookers and they just seem to end up in a mush on the garden. I wonder if they may be cider apples or something. We really want to remove it as it seems diseased as well. should I feel guilty about cutting it down - we could plant another apple tree in another part of the garden.Maybe something smaller.Also we have a pear tree which we want to keep - ar we to late to give it a good prune back?

[scottishlass]

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wow, you have been really busy, well done, have you decide what to do with it now, whatever it is,it's going to be much nicer than what you started with.