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Why does gardening always have to be so messy!!!!

madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
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Every year I tell myself that I will simplify my garden so that I can potter about (like they do on TV wearing nice clothes and carrying a pretty trug filled with carefully snipped roses!!).

Instead I end up getting extremely muddy and soaked to the skin (cleaning out the pond) and today I am cleaning pots that should have been done when emptied last year.Space is restricted so I am always tripping over something,right now my patio looks like this........

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It is also very cold,I know I should be enjoying it but today I am not.Sorry for the moan,shall now go outside again and tidy up.......

“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    It's mud pies for grown ups.  I don't mind getting messy if the end result is good and I get a good shower or bath afterwards.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543

    I know I should be enjoying it really!!!

    To think in just 5 months it should be like this!

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    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527

    It looks lovely Penguin image 

  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,153

    I look like a baglady when I'm in the garden, I wear my oldest clothing rejects which have usually got paint splashes on them too. This year I thought I should smarten myself up when I'm in the garden so santa brought me a posh Sara Raven apron which covers up most of my tatty clothing!?

    Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    I must be a filthy , lazy old mare. I've never washed pots. It'll rain on them,that'll do  , won't it?

    Devon.
  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332

    I am just like Bright Star. Last week I had a bonfire and the sparks made holes in my baggy trousers...to add to the paint splashes.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Love getting filthy [ in the garden!! ]

    I don't wash mine either Hosta, in fortunately I don't tidy them away either, so they tend to blow away.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Punkdoc, guilty as charged. 

    I'm about to do my round up of pots. It's like those films you see with all the crabs lined up ready to move up a size and the one behind ready to take over the shell. With me it's agapanthus

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Muddy clothes in the garden is ok. Dressing gown in tescos no.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    onesies on the school run??? NO

    Devon.
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