Thanks Guernsey Donkey. Do hope your rib injury heals quickly, take it very easy for a week or two.
Tin Pot I would cut them off the bushes before they drop off if that is feasible, I remember the feeling very well, you have to have eyes in the back of your head!
Finished getting all my flower beds ready for the snow. Just some packing away pots to do now. Heat is on in my GH until my bulbs and tubers are dried and can be brought into my basement. Birdhouse gourds are hanging in the GH also until later.
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.
Be careful how you move about and move slowly Guernsey Donkey2. I was in an bike accident in March and broke a couple ribs. I thought I was fine until a couple days later. I slipped on ice in my yard and the next day I was howling every time I moved. I still have some discomfort today mainly when I am lying down.
Been collecting apples today. There are so many on the floor but, sadly, most are not suitable for using/storing. Thank goodness for my extending pole apple-picker thing!
Hoping everyone's gardening boo boos are now healing🤕
Made reasonable headway today. Moved two astrantia and planted 4 pulmonaria into the awkward little bank. Dug up and potted my climbing aconitum, don't know if it's fading out or has just had a bad year. Am going to replace with a shrub rose that can allegedly be trained to climb. It's only 5' so doesn't really matter whether it does or not. So that tiny area is now virtually finished...
Planted 2 pots of bulbs from last year and moved the remaining pieces of persicaria orangefield to the same area, had loads of plants out of that one purchase, splitting and seedlings. If anyone needs a huge and happy plant that requires no care and cheerfully endures ill treatment, I recommend that one.
Buried 53 new bulbs, alliums, some super new daffs, and camassia all pretty much together. Area has late flowering plants so bare in Spring. I still need to finish it off by raising the soil level a bit and planting some loosestrife relations, crocosmia scraps and another persicaria.
Dug over an area on the dry shade pondside. Planted a hellebore, stinking, I think, and various fancy and original Asplenium ferns I bought a while back, not the sort that looks like lettuce. I don't like that one ☹️
Had a good day in the garden and down allotment moved / divided and cleared out the herbaceous boarder, dug and manured over the new rose boarder again and top dressed. some general tidying around and raked up a few fallen leaves.
At the allotment watered plants in poly tunnel, set up the potting table and built a few shelve units for seed trays. Cut a small pumpkin( 3kg) that was never going to do anything more have made that into soup for supper tonight Generally just pottering around as you do
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Gosh, everyone sounds as though they've been really busy today. I've been trying to figure out how to mend a bench I've been given for the school garden I look after - will have to get a new slat from Homebase tomorrow I think. Some of the bolts seem to have been painted over and can't be undone which is a real pain.
I managed a bit of seedling work this morning - nothing heavy - just transferring them from black module trays to individual plant pots. I felt reasonably o.k. but this afternoon and early evening I was in a great deal of pain, so perhaps I won't try doing too much tomorrow. I feel so frustrated as we have a long list of gardening jobs to get on with. OH plans to continue cutting hedges tomorrow, I will see how I feel before going into the garden - I don't like the sound of your accident Johnny Canoe - nor your prolonged recuperation period.
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Are there any effective ways to collect poisonous berries?
I can’t blink without her finding something tucked into the grass.
Tin Pot I would cut them off the bushes before they drop off if that is feasible, I remember the feeling very well, you have to have eyes in the back of your head!
Will visit the lumberyard tomorrow when it opens for materials.
@Lizzie27
not a bad idea, it’s the neighbours tree but if I bought the pole extended pruner I might just be able to do it!
Be careful how you move about and move slowly Guernsey Donkey2. I was in an bike accident in March and broke a couple ribs. I thought I was fine until a couple days later. I slipped on ice in my yard and the next day I was howling every time I moved. I still have some discomfort today mainly when I am lying down.
Planted some more wallflowers
Made reasonable headway today. Moved two astrantia and planted 4 pulmonaria into the awkward little bank. Dug up and potted my climbing aconitum, don't know if it's fading out or has just had a bad year. Am going to replace with a shrub rose that can allegedly be trained to climb. It's only 5' so doesn't really matter whether it does or not. So that tiny area is now virtually finished...
Planted 2 pots of bulbs from last year and moved the remaining pieces of persicaria orangefield to the same area, had loads of plants out of that one purchase, splitting and seedlings. If anyone needs a huge and happy plant that requires no care and cheerfully endures ill treatment, I recommend that one.
Buried 53 new bulbs, alliums, some super new daffs, and camassia all pretty much together. Area has late flowering plants so bare in Spring. I still need to finish it off by raising the soil level a bit and planting some loosestrife relations, crocosmia scraps and another persicaria.
Dug over an area on the dry shade pondside. Planted a hellebore, stinking, I think, and various fancy and original Asplenium ferns I bought a while back, not the sort that looks like lettuce. I don't like that one ☹️
Bulbs still to plant - 108
At the allotment watered plants in poly tunnel, set up the potting table and built a few shelve units for seed trays.
Cut a small pumpkin( 3kg) that was never going to do anything more have made that into soup for supper tonight
Generally just pottering around as you do
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog