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

SuzeQStan

Hey SA - my JA must be a bad unruly variety.  I know there are varieties that are much better behaved.

I don’t mind a bit of stinky bob/herb Robert  - it’s easily enough to pull up if you don’t want it where it’s seeded itself.

kiss_me_now9

So, my list of things to do: 

* Sort out the bindweed taking over the bottom third of the garden. I pulled a load up the other week, even more has sprung up in it's place. 
* Sort out the weeds taking over the patio.
* Sort out the weeds taking over the rose bushes (less keen on this as it's mostly disgustingly large brambles)
* Sort out the weeds in the veg patch... yes there's a theme...
* Pull up anything I don't want in the small flower bed

There's a few more jobs here and there but that's more than enough for now! 

greenbee

Squash and a couple more tomatoes have been planted. I'm not sure the climbing frame for the squash is big enough, but I'll find out. 

Watering and feeding (using hotbin leachate) has been done. Billions of weeds picked up and bunged in a builders' bag ready to go in garden waste. Mostly hawkweed - there is masses more. I've also pulled up lots of american willowherb, but that's mostly still drying out on the beds.

Tomorrow I need to pot up my peppers as they're starting to look a bit sorry for themselves in their tiny pots. Then that's all the veg sorted and I can concentrate on getting the annuals and lavenders ready to go in the garden. I also need to finish putting the string on the sweetpea wigwams on the patio. 

Creating some small beds for rhubarb (I have 3 of them) will mean I can free up some bigger pots which would also be handy. 

Think I need a bit of a soak in the bath... 

Cherryfudge

I came across this on an old thread: I haven't tried it but I will as I don't always wear gloves while gardening and my hands take some cleaning.

JackieO wrote: »

If your hands get really mucky in the garden a handful of sugar will normally take most grubby bits off

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My DH does this when he's done work on the car and got dirty, oily hands. A squirt of washing up liquid and a bit of sugar cleans them up great :j

greenbee

I use salt or sugar for ingrained mud @Cherryfudge!

Early start on the garden today as plumbers arrived at 9 and electricians have just turned up too. So filled a barrow with compost, and went out to pot up peppers (red, yellow, padron). I am now running out of decent-sized pots - but I think that's the last of what needs to be done. 

Also shoved 3 sweet peas into a pot on the patio that was waiting for them. They're small, but there are slugs in the greenhouse, so they are probably safer on the patio. And filled a terracotta pot with compost and cosmos. Greenhouse blinds are down, but clearly that was a little optimistic as there is a lot of cloud. 

Hoping at least to get the rest of the string done on the wigwams, and maybe mowing/weedpulling/weed killing. 

KajiKita

Managed to get an hour in the veggie patch done this evening, weeding / bindweed-bashing the cut flower patch. I watered it before dinner and will water it again after mulching it with wool compost. I’m hoping that will give everything a lift as the soil is soooo thin and silty here … 

My two plants have survived the night 😊❤️


KK

greenbee

Pulled some weeds and got the string almost completely done on the wigwams (might do the last bit later if I don't keel over with exhaustion). Also got rid of some tomato plants to a neighbour who then dropped off a whole lot of runner and borlotti beans which I planted after work and then did the watering. 

ajmoney

I had a later start at work today so I cut the grass before the rain is due later in the week followed by 15 minutes of weeding in one of the beds in the front garden. I don't pay nearly as much attention to the front so am trying to change that.

Brie

Was shocked to see a local coppice workshop group was selling wigwams for £20.  They weren't anything special.  No weaving, just nailed together bits of twigs.  They had lots of other things at good prices so don't know why the went wide with that one.  

Cheery_Daff

15 mins of raking for me tonight. I don't usually bother, but the grass I strimmed the other day was SO long. I do want it to dry out a bit morebefore adding to the compost heap though, so it's kind of in rows, probably til the weekend now. 

Nice to just be outside even for a little bit after finishing work 😊