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confessions of a gardening sloven

B3B3 Posts: 27,491

I never wash pots

I cut the shoots off brambles and leave the roots

I don't clean my tools

I mow the weeds on the path. 

What would you like to confess?

 

 

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    I've never once washed pots. 

    I've never sharpened my tools ( ooh erh missus)

    I throw docks and other nasties into the compost ( and have never had them regrow)

    I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kinds of a guy.

     

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,491

    Forgot about weed on compost sin. Paying for it at the moment. beds look like mustard and cress tubs . Have to hoe every couple of days. Well at least the compost is fertile!

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    I keep on intending to wash pots but have never actually done it.  (I only wash up in the kitchen when I run out of space for heaven's sake!)

    My watchword is 'that'll do for now'.

    I hate cleaning my tools (and other people's) but do it cos I know I ought to, not cos I want to.  I do sharpen them though - they''re so much easier to use!

    If there's a horrible job to do and a chance someone else will do it - I don't.

    I have been known to mow the path.  It looks quite pretty with all those green lines. image

     

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,491

    You're right about the path S

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I can confess to all the crimes mentioned so farimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Me too nut.  I've also left the tomato plants in the greenhouse until they completely rotted for the last two or three years, failed to clean it and still have disease free tomatoes in there right now, some of which are still flowering!  image

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • B3 wrote (see)

    I never wash pots

    I cut the shoots off brambles and leave the roots

    I don't clean my tools

    I mow the weeds on the path. 

    What would you like to confess?

     

     

    All of the above, I thought I was the only person who snipped weeds off at the ground rather than carefully digging them out with an appropriate toolimage

    Also, I buy the cheapest compost, handle seedlings by the stems, move things whenever I like, occasionally stab into a rootball with a trowel rather than 'teasing out the roots with a fork', I've never put grit under a bulb, don't collect/control/do anything with slugs and my garden is strewn with disgarded labels and empty pots.

    image but image

    Wearside, England.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Missed Steve's post. Can't confess to leaving it for someone else. But have to confess to leaving it. image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332

    I put my pots out in the rain to wash. Doesn't everyone?

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    I'm very good at cleaning underneath the lawnmower , but not the ride-on .

    Devon.
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