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Anyone done any gardening today? (4)

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  • Raked over some wood chip my OH had laid in piles in the front border - then PING - my right rib cage, hopefully nothing too drastic but it has curtailed my activities for a few days me thinks.
  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590
    Hope that you are ok @Guernsey Donkey2.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Ouch, that sounds painful Guernsey Donkey2 - I sympathise because I stabbed myself in the eye with a rough dry stem whilst weeding my rough bank this afternoon - another ouch!  After much blinking and soothing eye drops, I carried on, now wearing glasses of course. I never learn.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Hi Rubytoo, Hadn't thought about that - you could well be right. Pleased to report though that all pansies/violas survived the night!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Had a busy day in the garden and at the allotment generally tidying things up and moving them around like you do this time of year.

    Hope your both feeling better GD2 and Lizzie.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • Cleared away the spaghetti squash, and some, now, unproductive courgette plants. Raked over the old potato area where I rotavated earlier in the week, have sown some winter mix green manure, bit late now we have had these cool nights, but hopefully will work ok.
    AB Still learning

  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590
    Planted 32 more wallflowers. :)
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I finished constructing the Hedgehog Hotel, tidied shed and potting bench and played hide and seek with neiece (ok none are really gardening but...)


    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks Hampshire hog, eye seems ok today. I've been cutting back the ivy on the wall, it's getting a bit out of hand.  Then I started planting up pots of crocuses and dwarf daffs, but found some of the bulbs (kept in paper bags on top shelf of small wooden growhouse since spring) have been nibbled. There were woodlice in them but I suspect mice are perhaps getting in somehow. I planted the ok bulbs in various flower beds but must label where they are. It's been lovely sunny weather all day. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    edited September 2018
    Thank you for your kind concern, I am so annoyed with myself for letting it happen - I was only raking wood chip on the flower bed but it was quite a thick layer.

    Ouch Lizzie - eyes are so valuable - so I am pleased that there is no permanent damage.

    I hoped that the rib ping was just a fluke, but alas no - I cannot even lift a half full watering can now, and bending down also puts pressure on the ribs too.  So I have a good excuse for having a lazy week although my poor OH is wishing for rain so he won't have to do my share of the watering.  At least I can still sow seeds and pot up seedlings.
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