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Greenfingered plans for the weekend..?
EmptyPockets
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in Gardening
Was just wondering what 'greenfingered' plans, if any, you have for this predicted glorious weekend?
DH and I are hoping to get a few things planted in the front garden: a shrub/bush and some snap dragons given to us by a neighbour. We also need to make a timber and mesh frame to protect our swede and cabbage, because the birds are stripping them.
We also have some more peas to plant out, and again ,we need to find a way to protect these from the birds :mad: They are just stripping the bottom leaves off everything and there'll be devastation if we don't find a solution.
And if we find time ,we also want to do another sowing of spring onions in the raised beds.
DH and I are hoping to get a few things planted in the front garden: a shrub/bush and some snap dragons given to us by a neighbour. We also need to make a timber and mesh frame to protect our swede and cabbage, because the birds are stripping them.
We also have some more peas to plant out, and again ,we need to find a way to protect these from the birds :mad: They are just stripping the bottom leaves off everything and there'll be devastation if we don't find a solution.
And if we find time ,we also want to do another sowing of spring onions in the raised beds.
"Your life is what your thoughts make it"
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth!"
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth!"
R.i.P our beautiful girl Suki. We'll love and miss you forever
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Got the lucky dip from sutton seeds and looks good, so be planting the plug plants, mixed them up to dont know what I have lolKind Regards
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Bit of a 'wait and see' then Bill! Great!"Your life is what your thoughts make it"
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth!"
R.i.P our beautiful girl Suki. We'll love and miss you forever
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May go to a fete and a garden show this weekend to have a nosey about
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Digging and leveling out the bottom of the garden ready to extend the lawn for DD's play area.
Repotting some chillies and peppers.
Put up hanging basket.
Then maybe get round to doing a bit in the front garden.
DD will have plenty of fun with the digging so maybe I'll leave it to her and sunbathe instead (she's 19 months).0 -
Digging and leveling out the bottom of the garden ready to extend the lawn for DD's play area..
... in 29 degrees? I'd be keeling over in that heat doing any digging, you're braver than me :T"Your life is what your thoughts make it"
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth!"
R.i.P our beautiful girl Suki. We'll love and miss you forever
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EmptyPockets wrote: »... in 29 degrees? I'd be keeling over in that heat doing any digging, you're braver than me :T
Nah, now picking oranges in almost 40 degrees (griffith, aus) is tough. Well torture actually, lugging ladders around and carring bags full of oranges is not nice. Ask me tomorrow as I might just be tempted to sit back with some ice cream.0 -
Haha! - I can't stand it in the heat for long, so think most of our outside work will be done in the early evening when it's a bit cooler."Your life is what your thoughts make it"
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth!"
R.i.P our beautiful girl Suki. We'll love and miss you forever
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So much to do in the garden this weekend.. plant out most of my veg which I've potted on and has been sat in the coldframe (eBay) for the last week, inc strawberries, mange tout, squash (growing in tubs & over Wilko garden arches this year), lettuce (several types), various broccoli, cabbage, etc. Finish sorting the greenhouse and plant in to grobags - tomatoes, cukes, peppers & melon. Sow seed in to my newly waterproofed wine crates (eBay) - carrot, cut'n'come salad leaves, american land cress, etc. Keep watering in my fabulous newly-planted phormium (eBay) - a bargain at £10 for a healthy 5ft plant!
In between all that, I've got a wedding to go to this afternoon / evening.. :beer:
Oh, and keep an eye on eBay for some more bargains!! :TMy passions: my 2 sons, gardening & The Arsenal
My frustrations: my 2 sons, gardening & The Arsenal
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bottleblonde wrote: »In between all that, I've got a wedding to go to this afternoon / evening.. :beer:
Hope you have a great time - what a lovely weekend for a wedding, the photographer will be pleased
"Your life is what your thoughts make it"
"If you can't bite, don't show your teeth!"
R.i.P our beautiful girl Suki. We'll love and miss you forever
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It's a Moroccan-themed wedding (bride is slightly 'wacky'). The venue is being decked out like a Moroccan dessert oasis tent, with a bucking-bronco camel :rotfl:
We've been asked to wear clothes that are as brightly-coloured as possible. It should be fab!!
I suspect the gardening on Sunday might be a bit slow in starting My passions: my 2 sons, gardening & The Arsenal
My frustrations: my 2 sons, gardening & The Arsenal
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