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What are your gardening hours?

Sam80Sam80 Posts: 40
in The potting shed

As I was getting ready to go to work yesterday, just after 5am, I quickly popped into the garden to water a pot I thought might need it and then spotted a bit of hedge that was hanging into a path so I quickly trimmed a branch or two back before heading off to work.  I may've been spotted by the neighbours quietly tiptoeing around the garden and it got me thinking....  I've heard of people popping out with torches at midnight to do a slug hunt.

I was wondering, does anyone on here keep unusual gardening hours? :)

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  • Hampshire_HogHampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089
    Must admit I have been known to go out on the terrace at all hours of the night to sit and listen to the sea, then I see something and just have to do a bit of pruning, pulling the odd weed that's strayed in. Often wonder why I don't see them during the day I'm sure they deliberately grow over night  :)

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Having got into Dahlias I do embark on snail hunts with a torch when the dogs go out for their final business. One of my furry friends is obsessed by gardening and loves to weed (i.e.. I weed, she waits to catch the offending article or grab it out the weeding bucket and toss it around) so I do put her off her stride, so to speak, as she is more interested in what I am doing in the borders than relieving herself. In summer, my gardening hours are early morning and late evening... so long as there is light. Afternoons you will find me having a siesta, accompanied by the furry boy.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I do a lot of my gardening and watering in the evening. I do go out on nightly snail and slug hunts. I'm getting less and less self-conscious about what clothes I go about in, though my garden is entirely over-looked. In my narrow terraced road, where nobody else really gardens, the neighbours are used to seeing torch beams criss crossing the dark and hearing muttering: "Bas***ds"
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    When my new neighbours move in I might have to explain to them about my midnight vine weevil hunts so they don't call the fuzz.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    As I work shifts l am often watering the garden (if it needs watering) at 11 o'clock at night, or picking out weeds at 4am...........not in the same week hastily add.
    West Yorkshire
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Out there whenever I feel like it, being retired I can garden when it is convenient, ie when the weather allows me to, this time of the year in the garden many hours.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Whenever free time, energy and weather permit.  Sometimes, like today, when I have time and energy but it's raining, I find something to do in the garage.  Today, it was putting a bag full of hedge clippings through the shredder.  I join the other volunteers at the park every Monday at 10am, Bank Holidays included, except when it's raining or snowing, but it hardly ever snows here.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I have been known to have a potter before work. When we had the warm spell last Summer, I often did the gardening late evening. I love the atmosphere on warm nights - the different fragrances and a feeling of calm. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Stephanie newish gardenerStephanie newish gardener Posts: 516
    Living so far north I complain all winter when it seems never to get light, and in the summer I'm often heard saying "blimey, is it 10.30pm already?" It gets 'dark' at about 11pm and light at about 3am in the summer, though you'll never find me in the garden at 3am unless it's been a late night...!! 
    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

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