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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:57 pm | |
| I have returned from the garden.
I weeded the path, forked over the vegetable patch and gave the compost heap a good prodding and forking. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
Posts : 141016 Karma : 1129 Join date : 2018-05-02
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:58 pm | |
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Nightjar
Posts : 104058 Karma : 843 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 3:58 pm | |
| Gardening jeans! _________________ OK, I'm an old shoe
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 6:23 pm | |
| Men's bootcut jeans from 2004. My garden's a cross-dressing retro fashion hotspot. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
Posts : 104058 Karma : 843 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:00 pm | |
| Do you have other types of housework trouser? Dusting trews? Polishing pantaloons? _________________ OK, I'm an old shoe
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:41 pm | |
| I do have some painting trousers (old jogging bottoms with paint all over them). _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Nightjar
Posts : 104058 Karma : 843 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Dec 29, 2018 8:31 pm | |
| Daubin' joggers. _________________ OK, I'm an old shoe
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:26 pm | |
| I am once again about to put on my gardening jeans. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Jan 12, 2019 3:55 pm | |
| That was such a strenuous gardening session, pulling up ivy and creepers and unwanted rose stems. I'm covered in scratches. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
Posts : 141016 Karma : 1129 Join date : 2018-05-02
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:28 pm | |
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Jan 12, 2019 7:50 pm | |
| But I did get to do a Harrison Chase impression when I was feeding stuff into the shredder. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:27 pm | |
| I pruned the apple tree this afternoon. I also uprooted the ivy and dug out the roots of a dead bush with the Neverbend Rootbreaker (which you may remember from the old HOTW). And I piled earth round the bottom of compost heap 2 so the wasps can't get in again this year. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Butterfield
Posts : 17614 Karma : 372 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:32 pm | |
| I too did some pruning this weekend. I read that, despite the cold weather, one can prune the ribus blackcurrant shrub which had become very woody and with too many little trunks forming. So I got the pruning saw out and cut some of them out and reduced the height of the woody thicker branches, allowing the newer thinner ones to thrive - and it's those ones which produce the fruit apparently, not that I ever pick the blackcurrants - I leave that to the birds. I also cut down an unneeded hawthorn which had pretty much turned into a little tree and little ash or mountain ash which never really does anything. |
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:45 pm | |
| I'm once again about to put on my gardening jeans, and prune the buddleia. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:14 pm | |
| I pruned that buddleia good. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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Butterfield
Posts : 17614 Karma : 372 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:24 pm | |
| I pruned the buddleia this weekend too! I remember reading a few years ago that you could do that in February. I didn't cut it right down to almost the ground this time though but just took the height out of it, down to probably about 5ft. Last year I was shocked at just how quickly it grew from the stump I chopped it down to. Within days there were new shoots coming out of the old wood and it just shot up - probably the quickest-growing shrub I know of. Then it displayed huge white flowers which attract butterflies. A standard purple variety set itself at the other end of the garden last year which should grow more this year. |
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11085 Karma : 385 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:26 pm | |
| It's like we're buddleia buddies It's been a while since I cut mine back to the ground - I wouldn't dare try now, it's about 15ft high. |
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flibbington2.0
Posts : 297 Karma : 16 Join date : 2018-07-21
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:41 pm | |
| The blackberries look like they're about to become edible sometime in the next week. They're starting to develop some colour. |
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Butterfield
Posts : 17614 Karma : 372 Join date : 2018-05-03
| Subject: Re: The gardening thread Sun Feb 10, 2019 8:41 pm | |
| - Fangirl Three wrote:
- It's like we're buddleia buddies
It's been a while since I cut mine back to the ground - I wouldn't dare try now, it's about 15ft high. I'm sure I read that you get more flowers on newer shoots in the summer, hence why people cut them right down at the beginning of the year - but that didn't seem to be the case with mine last year which just seemed to have the same amount of flowers as normal. |
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