Weekly Flylady Thread 7th May 2012

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

LW - perhaps rather than 'gardening' as such, you could perhaps ping a handful of seeds into a corner - or into small, light pots, for example? Doesn't cost much, and if they grow, well they grow.


I was looking at Rambling Rector today, actually hex- do bees like it? They've already given me cherries (forming on my 3 foot tall baby tree), and other than the lavender out the front, there isn't a lot around for them this year - the council, in their infinite wisdom, has 'pruned' every tree for about a 3 mile radius so there is no blossom anywhere.

A winter flowering honeysuckle sounds like a brilliant idea, though.



Ah well, suppose I'd better try and get some sleep, so I can do the planting out tomorrow morning. And probably get back to the garden centre at some point during the day

froddington

Evening all! Finally had lovely sunshine today so 2 loads of washing dried outside and I have almost cleared the washing pile. A sunny day tomorrow will sort that!

Good to see GnB, pipersky and Jo back

jojo - good to have you back too; hugs x

I need to update my list before heading to bed.

Oh, and does anyone have any experience of selling a house privately to a builder?

froddington

List for tomorrow - night all, sleep well x

Bank Holiday Monday - DONE

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Level Two
Wipe sofas

Level Three
Dust any dusty bits
Clear and clean windowsills

Wednesday - Bedrooms

Level One
HH Floor clearance

Level Two
Hoover floors that can be seen
Clear landing

Level Three
Clear floordrobe
Clear and wipe top of drawers

Thursday - Kitchen

Clean windows

Friday - Bathroom

Level One
Clean sink, bath

kazwookie

Slow cooker on
Cat fed
|Floors done

Jojo~ I'd be planting holly and other such prickly bushed to keep the toerag out of your garden.

Bossymo~ how about an Acer, or another fruit tree of some sort, plum, pear?

Lonewolf~ how about having wheelchair high small planters, so you garden from your chair, when your shoulder allows you to? if you get them I'll pop round and soil/ plant them up for you, to keep on top of.

Off to work in a bit

Have a good day x

Jazee

Morning all, about to go and have a bath, then plans so far for the day are dog walking and bathing, and weeding. Obviously the usual vacuum the living room too. I have cupboards in the kitchen which need sorting badly but I keep putting it off. May summon up the enthusiasm or may just read a book instead. Currently reading The Woman who went to bed for a year, and at times I'm jealous!

kazmeister

Morning ladies

We have sunshine again this morning so I have brought one lot in from the line and put another lot out. WM on again. DH is away to work so plan for today is
clearing away the kitchen mess (DD's making pancakes) bath, then HHI, clothes sorting, checking bank account to see if I can do a small shop before Tuesday, roasting a chicken so we can have it cold with Salad and JP for tea when I get in from work, dropping DD at Grandma and Grandads then work for 230 - phew. Just finishing breakfast and my second cuppa.

See ya's later

hex2

Bossymoo, I like gardening but am not brilliant at it. I will have a think on the tree, but I love acers like Kazw says.

Lamewolf - I do sympathise. I was hugely into gardening so we bought this place which has a big garden, then of course I started with the fibro and I just can't manage hence the couch grass problem. DH does the heavy labour but just isn't into weeding/planting. Pots sounds like a good suggestion. I thought of you Kazw and you immediately pop up and offer :A.

Froddington - if you mean part exing to a builder then yes I have. Three estate agents, then the average of their three prices for a quick sale. They then marketed the house (at that price) and I moved in 6 weeks.

JoJo - rambling rector is good with the bees. We bought it at Barnsdale Gardens (Geoff Hamilton) and it is in the bits with the bee hives.

AJmoney - I will come back to you with some suggestions.

I am going to make breakfast for the the hungry hordes, quick trip to the farm shop for supplies for the hens and then try and do some work on the veg plots. Hands are bad from yesterday and the green waste bin is full so limited productivity but a shame to waste the weather. WM needs to go on a gazillion times, and I need to deal with ironing mountain before tomorrow.

froddington

Thanks Hex but I'm possibly in a position to sell directly to a builder (known to my Aunty) without marketing by Estate Agents. The builder owns several properties in the area and my house needs work done to it which he will do.

Right, I'm off to attack my bedroom - I'd offer to start a HHC but I fear I will need much longer

Will be back in time for the start of the Grand Prix!

greenbee

ajmoney wrote: »

Medium sized I guess, the top section (right hand side) is flat and then it slopes around the side of the conservatory down to the left. A neighbour has quite bad clay/soil which is holding loads of water so I guess we probably have the same. I know the lower part of our garden and the edge of the grass going into theirs gets completely sodden so we are expecting to put in plants that like water! I want to be able to do things in the garden when it is done but not so it takes too much time up, although obviously I would rather decide to spend more time on it rather than design a high maintenance garden and then ruin it through lack of interest. I work quite long hours sometimes so I would like something that s easy to maintain I guess. I am relatively new to proper gardening but am good at reading and following instructions (I am a woman after all) so can learn!

I'm on clay, and everything grows to about 3 times the size that it does on my parents' chalk! Roses love it... My front garden was a bog, so we ended up digging up part of the front lawn and putting in a land drain which has helped hugely (apparently before theses houses were built there was a stream here). I have also dug in masses of soil improver/sand/compost/chicken poo...

When I first moved in the flowerbeds were all huge, and impossible to keep under control. I now have narrower beds (still wide enough for three layers of planting, but I have to be selective) and the widest one I can get to from both sides which helps. I have roses and clematis round the patio, and have planted pale ones as I'm often out there in the evening. If you have fences you can grow climbers up them, which is more fun and less hassle than cutting hedges! You need to make sure that you include things for all seasons and that get on. Scented plants are definitely worth it, although don't bother trying lavender on clay.

JoJo - bees like single flowered roses as they can get to them more easily. They also like aquilegias if you want me to post some

One load of washing on. Then I need to steel myself to take the several weeks old bags of garden waste to the tip, drop of my dry cleaning and see whether I can find some mattress covers for the new beds that are arriving on Thursday...

Jazee

Hello again. Well, I'm clean, the dogs have been walked, recycling sorted, all bins emptied, first lot of washing on the line, second (and last for today) in machine. I'm afraid to say my book has won the day. I'm about to sit down with it, along with a cuppa and a toasted teacake. I am justifying this by saying that because I fly before paid work most weekdays, I should be able to pick and choose at weekends.