Travelling On

beanielou

Have a happy weekend

Downshifterella

Hope you've had a happy gardening weekend!

Karmacat

Hello :hello: thanks all :hello:
Not a huge amount of gardening so far this weekend, I confess though I did cut down some of the rampant raspberry canes (we should all have this trouble!) and actually put some through my dehydrator. Brambles and nettles given a seeing off. Oh. I did do quite a bit in the end - lots of cutting back the neighbour's privet to near our boundary, I lose such a lot of light and growing ability because of it. Long handled secateurs are wonderful for this.

SB - yes. Checking on what self seeded onions are growing in amongst the cobblestones at the side of the house - yes. Welsh onions, pretty sure. I never dig up the bulbs, but this year I'm going to experiment with eating the bulblets at the top :cool: Quite a lot of time over the past few days may have been spent in admiring/ chatting to cats at the front *and* back of the house this morning at 6am one of them was using the top of the vandalised gatepost as a perch to groom. Weird and wonderful

Today, honestly, it's more of same - I'm out for 3 days next week, don't need to be out today, though the days out have bunched up in a not-good way. First world problems, the very definition Hope everyone has a good day today.

beanielou

Yah for the cats:D

Suffolk_lass

We have a WhatsApp group for our cat so she does not get forgotten - it does need DS (who is supposed to be staying for our trip duration) to post if he isn't coming and then relies on my watering and picking neighbours also feeding the cat. Of course I pay the neighbours (teenage children) but the cat does not come to them and needs DS for the company

Karmacat

Aren't cats strange, the way they take against some people? Dogs do it too, actually - probably genetics or something. How lovely that your cat will go to DS for the company

I'm faffing with raspberry leaves on the dehydrator again - it really stands out, that if you wanted to harvest this stuff properly, harvesting is a full scale job. Though not currently for me, it isn't :rotfl:

And I'm *so* getting to bed early tonight. Yawn. Yawny yawn yawn.

Karmacat

I did well on the gardening cut some grass, and that led on to me starting to clear the space under my huge mahonia, which leans drastically because it was overshadowed by the neighbour's privet fence for so long
The only roots I dug up were ordinary grass, but it all worked really well, and ahem, I uncovered a big thick quarry tile I'd previously put there as a place to stand on and not keep crushing different areas of soil :rotfl: so a couple of square feet cleared, a lot of intrusive grass cleared around said square feet, fresh soil and then bark chippings put down. Bird baths filled, and pot plants watered.

wishingthemortgaheaway

Sounds like a productive day.

Karmacat

Thanks wish, yes, it was - I'd like the productiveness to have been longer, but this is what I can do without fear of falling ill again, so this is what I do ) I have a mapping system open in another tab (magic map application, my water authority sent me there, weirdly, checking out a local reservoir) so I'm going to have a play with that.

wishingthemortgaheaway

It's good that you know your limits. I don't, which then means I have days when I go super productive and then long periods when I can hardly function. (Not in the same way as you, mine is more mental than physical. )