Tidying the edges of the grass with an edging tool or long handled shears because it makes such a difference to the tidiness.
I also love sitting on my wheelie box, working my way along the borders pulling up weeds and using a little hand rake to remove all the dead leaves, fallen twigs etc.
And I LOVE pruning overgrown shrubs
And...
And...
And ....
I just enjoy it all
Oh, except planting bulbs when there are too many roots in the way
...some of these favourite tasks sound like awful hard work to me... lol... does no one pick scented flowers any more?.... you don't have a little wooden trug to carry around and snip things off?... even if it's your runner beans.... I s'pose I'm living in the past ...
I thought I was odd, but I see now that others enjoy weeding too. It's very satisfying. Deadheading is almost as good. I also like making compost and using it. Oh, and anything that involves trundling the wheelbarrow around. We never had a garden big enough to need one until we retired, and now we have a garden big enough to LOSE the wheelbarrow. I am just like a small boy with my wheelbarrow, I love it!
I figure the pruning, weeding ,digging, is probably better for me than joining a gym.
Like Dove, I like watching the wildlife, picking flowers and fruit and veg, and having enough to give to friends and neighbours, and enough to preserve.
I feel very smug when I can present a dinner when almost everything except meat and cheese has come from the garden.
Millionaires can't buy sweetcorn that taste as good as mine, picked while the water is put on to boil, simply boiled and slathered in butter. You'll never find it in a michelin starred restaurant.
I'm looking forward to having the garden in a state where I can sit and enjoy the wildlife and potter a bit more rather than toiling - although I'm not very good at sitting for any length of time
I like deadheading and picking sweet peas to bring in - still got a load growing outside the back gate. Cutting the grass - the smell of the first cut of the year is lovely.
I like just footering around looking at 'stuff' too
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I also love sitting on my wheelie box, working my way along the borders pulling up weeds and using a little hand rake to remove all the dead leaves, fallen twigs etc.
And I LOVE pruning overgrown shrubs
And...
And...
And ....
I just enjoy it all
Oh, except planting bulbs when there are too many roots in the way
...some of these favourite tasks sound like awful hard work to me... lol... does no one pick scented flowers any more?.... you don't have a little wooden trug to carry around and snip things off?... even if it's your runner beans.... I s'pose I'm living in the past ...
I thought I was odd, but I see now that others enjoy weeding too. It's very satisfying. Deadheading is almost as good. I also like making compost and using it. Oh, and anything that involves trundling the wheelbarrow around. We never had a garden big enough to need one until we retired, and now we have a garden big enough to LOSE the wheelbarrow. I am just like a small boy with my wheelbarrow, I love it!
I like planting up my pots and troughs with bedding plants, planting new plants in the beds and pricking out seedlings in the GH.
I love digging my allotment - so therapeutic as you don't have to think and the mind can wander.
Planting seeds. I like the potential much more than when they start to grow! (Alas weeding and digging just infuriate my spinal weaknesses).
I like it all, weeding, digging, sowing, pruning, planting, potting .... the list goes on and on
But the two things I enjoy the most are:
And I nearly forgot - I get a lot of satisfaction from going out into the garden, picking some veg or fruit and preparing a meal with it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I figure the pruning, weeding ,digging, is probably better for me than joining a gym.
Like Dove, I like watching the wildlife, picking flowers and fruit and veg, and having enough to give to friends and neighbours, and enough to preserve.
I feel very smug when I can present a dinner when almost everything except meat and cheese has come from the garden.
Millionaires can't buy sweetcorn that taste as good as mine, picked while the water is put on to boil, simply boiled and slathered in butter. You'll never find it in a michelin starred restaurant.
In the words of the advert, priceless.
I'm looking forward to having the garden in a state where I can sit and enjoy the wildlife and potter a bit more rather than toiling - although I'm not very good at sitting for any length of time
I like deadheading and picking sweet peas to bring in - still got a load growing outside the back gate. Cutting the grass - the smell of the first cut of the year is lovely.
I like just footering around looking at 'stuff' too
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...