What gardening jobs did you do over the weekend?

freezspirit

To be honest had help,
dad on Friday
on my own Saturday
and Sunday afternoon a friend helped me. He might have a bit of ocd as he alone took out a dead fruit tree stump out (only 40cm above ground, about 3in diameter trunk) spent over 40mins of continuous digging. I think he went down over 2 foot, once out he filled the hole back. He did the same with all the roses he took out. Soil in garden not easy to dig or good quality so in future will create raised beds.

cazziebo

likelyladgal wrote: »

Weeding
Treated fence and planted container lilly bulbs.
Also bought another Magnolia tree for £1.99 :-o to go with the other 4 in my garden. I love Magnolia's

I do, too! Where did you get a magnolia for £1.99? :T

jules-2005

Cut the grass, dug up around 40 plants and shrubs from my garden, potted them up and took them to mums. Removed all the log roll borders, took down and cleaned the water fountains. I've lived here for 5 years and brought a lot of my plants from my old house and put an awful lot of sweat, tears and money into the garden. Now I'm being evicted I'm putting the garden back to how it was when I first rented the house.

Need to find lots of nettles and brambles, old rotten tree trunks and lumps of concrete to return it to the condition it was when I moved in

Still lots more of my stuff to remove over the next couple of weekends !

mrsscattercushion

Between me and hubby:
* Restacked and tidied up the stack/netting screen that is in place for the sweetpeas
* carried on digging and clearing the main allotment beds
* cleared the brambles back from around the greenhouse area so we can see it/improve light etc
* weeded around veg already in, including garlic, onions, shallots and broad beans
* planted some peas seeds under fleece placed on mesh hoops for some protection
* used a lot of the old planks lying around to mark out beds/use as walkways
* pruned back the raspberry canes (don't know if summer or autumn fruiting as are in the plot from previous users) to the start of this year's growth
* worked out space for potatoes and planned some other beds
* keeping an eye on sweetpeas, leek and tomato seedlings
growing in the house

likelyladgal

cazziebo wrote: »

I do, too! Where did you get a magnolia for £1.99? :T

B&M Shocked face. Magnolia Susan or Stellata white.
Will have to start taking cuttings from my established Magnolia's.

newthrift

Started digging over out new allotment patch (which is on my mum & dad's HUGE allotment patch), have a little more to do this weekend and set some bits!!

nlj1520

Oh dear, I felt quite proud until I read what you all had done! I removed an ENORMOUS bramble and all its offspring. Got my arms shredded in the process. Bought some strawberry plants (alpine) and my OH went to an auction and bought me some pots for the patio. Was hoping that the ground was still too wet to cut the lawn as the top half of the garden is a very steep slope and I hate cutting it.....but reading so many of you have cut yours, I guess that excuse is wearing thin......................

Scottish_Mike

My partner and I moved into our house about a month and a half ago. He's not really into gardening, so I have full control of it but have to do all the work!

In the last week I've removed the top half of a pampas grass (just need to remove the roots now) and set up a compost heap, as well as a general tidy-up; removing some weeds and trimming back a few dead things from last year.

Our garden's pretty small, but with a bit of work I should have it looking quite good. If the rain stays off today I want to remove a couple of bushes, and develop a little area (5x7ft) as a fruit/veg patch. I have some raspberry canes to plant today, and some seeds to pot.

The lawn needs cutting, but won't be doing that today!

wellused

winter 2012/13 I rough dug over my allotment plot and due to the snow and frosts not to mention freezing winds when I came to rake it over last April it broke down to a fine crumb, this last winter I again rough dug it but due to not having any frost and snow it now stands still rough dug so I am having to break it up by hand with a cultivator, this is hard work and even though it hasn't rained for over a week the ground is still very wet underneath, so that is what I have been doing hoping to get it finished before the weather breaks at the end of this week.

DKLS

Mowed the lawn, cleaned a couple of garden chairs and table, decided that was quite enough effort and had a gin n tonic in the sun whilst enjoying my erm hard work.