@Lizzie27 I have allowed my wife 2 short breaks and a full holiday this year and I've never missed a sports day or Christmas play ever !! So I'm not gooseberry guy yet !! I do love my compost though I'm still pretty amazed how in can turn so much waste into black gold 🤣🤣 anyway I've been self employed for about 20 years so I'm quite clearly certifiable already !!
Be careful you don't develop a compost obsession @Wilderbeast - actually it may already be too late! Reminds me of the gooseberry grower on Friday's GW, did anybody else see it? His only aim in life it seemed was to grow the biggest gooseberry in the world. Hilarious, his poor wife said they never went on holiday or did anything at weekends and she hated gooseberries. I'd have divorced him long ago.
I only did a little light pruning as I still ache from yesterday's pruning/strimming session.
I saw gardeners world what size were they prob taste not nice (I am not keen on them sour)
Been trying to do building stuff make a better roof for my chicken coop - so not really gardening even though outside
Taking a lunch break after painting three and a bit fence panels. Couple of errands to run before painting the ugly slabs beneath them. Then I can start planting that border
Up early and turned 2 bins of compost and emptied another that's finished into the large holding bay. It's taken 4 months from start to finish to make. Was most surprised to find we'd had a frost last night, the covers on the garden furniture were covered in frost rind. Lots of dead heading and pruning after breakfast, it's all starting to look a bit wild.
Thanks for spent compost suggestions - it will be going on as a soil topper/mulch once I’ve finished pruning my two massive Phormiums.
*A word to the wise... DON’T put Phormium leaves in your garden shredder! Just spent half an hour clearing a massive ball of stringy fibres from the machine! I can see why the leaf fibres are used as twine and rope!
Weeded front garden. Cut down the sweet pea out there. Dead headed the rose and cut back a few long shoots on a bush. Hubby tackled a ground cover of ivy from next door on one side, and the weeds and budlia growing in the other sides drive. Planted new Cyprus into a new pot ( didn't really go for that from the GC, also brought back bulbs and seeds🙄😊)
I watered vine weevil nemotodes (first time I've used them) onto a rockery where the weevils keep nibbling my hellebores. Not sure if it will work in that particular spot.
Then I sprayed Resolva again on some very persistant ivy under a wall.
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Was most surprised to find we'd had a frost last night, the covers on the garden furniture were covered in frost rind. Lots of dead heading and pruning after breakfast, it's all starting to look a bit wild.
Also trimmed the cotoneaster, holly and yew.
Weeded the front garden.
Move a rose.
Gathered fallen apples.
Clipped a few gladioli victims of the wind.
Scrafified, seeded and laid a thin layer of spent compost.
Weeded patio.
Thought about the bigger jobs, then went inside to watch the tour de france
Planted new Cyprus into a new pot ( didn't really go for that from the GC, also brought back bulbs and seeds🙄😊)
Then I sprayed Resolva again on some very persistant ivy under a wall.