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GreenFly - A 'flylady style' gardening thread with weekly tasks to tame your garden

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  • Slinky
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    @greenbee I saw a trick the other day. Put your green bin waste on the floor, run over it with the lawnmower a few times without the collection basket on it, then use it with the collection basket on to collect it and put it in the bin. I watched a green bin full reduced to a basket full.
    Our neighbour does this with all sorts of garden junk. They also burn stuff in their BBQ! Dread to think what a mess it makes of the blade edges of the mower. They just stick it in their general waste bin as they are too tight to pay for a garden one.

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  • greenbee
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    Moved the green waste bins to the front - will see whether I can top them up before they are collected. The stuff I have to get rid of is far too bulky for the mower. I just need to work out how to get the stuff out from under all the soil, and then stick the soil somewhere in the garden (there's a double hedge at the back where I store rubble, bricks and roots of grubbed up shrubs, so it could go there). I just get annoyed when I pay people to do work for me that ends up making more work for me... a bit like the electricians and plumbers who apparently 'cleaned up' after themselves last week and this week... 

    Other than that, today's gardening will be offloading more tomatoes on neighbours. I need to get a lot of dust out of the house and get some work done. And hopefully get some gardening done at the weekend as my seedlings are outgrowing their seed trays again, but not big enough to go in the beds yet. 
  • Goodintentions
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    Pots have been watered - except the greenhouse which I will do in a mo. Slimy critters have nibbled a cucumber seedling and 2 pumpkin seedlings 🙄 The pots have been checked & moved into the greenhouse. I may sow some more tomorrow (variety, baby boo, which is a small white one)
    The bin men missed my green bin yesterday (despite me paying extra for the privilege!). I reported the missed collection at lunch time and it was emptied within a few hours. It would be a lot more efficient to just do it the first place!! Oh well, at least I can fill it up again this weekend 🙂
    I also need to feed my lemon tree & water the house plants. I may do that now before it gets dark 👍
  • Sun_Addict
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    Nearly the weekend - hurrah!  I suggest:

    1. Multiples of 15 minutes on the basics - watering weeding, tidying.  Have a walk round - where needs in the most?  Can you nip some flowering weeds off before they bloom?
    2. 15 minutes on this season productivity or pretty things such as adding some seeds, planting out veg, hanging baskets or pots, etc. 
    2.  15 minutes progress on your longer term aims.  Painting fence panels like @Sun_Addict ? Laying another row of tiles on the patio like @Cheery_Daff


    Thank you! 

    I've finished the tiles of my patio 😃 Really pleased with myself for doing this in little bits of time around other activities, half an hour here, an hour there, 15 mins another time. 

    I still need to put big stones round the edge, and sort out the rest of this little space, which is filled with roof tiles and weeds. 

    Not today though. In little slots over the weekend 😊
    That looks amazing. Great place to sit with a coffee and a book. 
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  • Cherryfudge
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    I love that patio, @Cheery_Daff, and your beautiful stone walls. I'm guessing that was built over many years from the way it slots together?
    I think a bit of sunshine is good for frugal living. (Cranky40)
    The sun's been out and I think I’m solar powered (Onebrokelady)

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