What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

I was always disappointed with the quality of the reproduction with the compression applied on my youTube videos.
I thought this was a good test. It isn't as sharp as it is on my laptop, but this is good test videoing stuff on the TV.

 

[Amateur Gardener]

Trimming the weeds

 

[Genevieve]

I've had rain all week so far. Two thunderstorms yesterday alone.
I've been transplanting all my seedlings into larger pots
Still have to do the sweet peppers which sprouted this week and I have to plant my potatoes in containers.
I also have 20 bare root strawberry plants to get planted.
This rain has delayed me by a week now
Showers I can deal with but the downpours have me inside the greenhouse lol
Its still in the 30's at night here
Oh well, can only do what you can

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

Ack, this was a great idea, but my post wasn't saved b/c I was not signed in (password issues, as usual).
1. I planted poppies in the sunny historic alley behind my 125 y/o house. They have germinated and I am unsure what to do next - hopefully, I can relocate some.
2. The climbing hydrangeas on the garden fence are thriving, but they have never bloomed in the eight years of residence. We are in Zone 7 and they get some good sun now but won't when the crepe myrtles leaf out in June. I dig in compost each spring. I fear I didn't untangle the root mass sufficiently... Advice is MOST welcome.
3. I am attempting to train a white lilac into a standard in a sunny patch in the front. It is well established and I have cut back all but two candidates, allowing sufficient foliage for photosynthesis.
4. I hired an arborist to prune my weeping plum to grow more up in the sunny front yard "orchard," and it is much improved. it leaves a bit more room for the fig. Each summer I make many tarts and jams with my local produce, which gives me great pleasure (and extremely local, organic produce).
5.We all learn from each other. Thanks for any and all advice!

Sometimes if I'm writing a lengthy entry on some website, I use Word first then cut-n-paste it over. Fixes all those issues, including timeouts and other errors too. Then just exit the Word file with out saving once it's safely sent.

 

[dirtdigs]

Projected high of 70 for Monday.

2 minutes ago, sleet and a few snow flurries

Anybody know some sort of ceremonial dance I can try to get the weather straightened out?

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

Jump up and down and bash your head on the wall. Doesn't work, but it will relieve some of the frustration and give you something else to think about.

 

[Sean Regan]

Spent more time tying up clematis, we must have a couple of dozen, some already well established, others just getting trheir heads above ground.
The established ones need training and tying up every few days. I like to spread them out, on the wiresd, they like to bunch and grow straight up,

 

[Genevieve]

Gardening is out right now
having spasms in my back, so I can't do much.
At one point I couldn't lift my arms
Hopefully I can do some tomorrow
Hate when this happens

 

[Neno Baylov]

When you have pain is not easy, quick recovery.

 

[Sean Regan]

Mowed both lawns and gave the wheely bins a bit of a clean.

 

[Genevieve]

Mowed both lawns and gave the wheely bins a bit of a clean.

Now what you call wheely bins are what we call garbage or trash cans right?

 

[Sean Regan]

Now what you call wheely bins are what we call garbage or trash cans right?

That's correct, two bins are emptied every week.

We have one for glass and plastic and one for paper and card emptied every four weeks, one for non-recyclable waste emptied bi-weekly and one for garden and food waste (we put the food in little bags), emptied weekly, curiously all year round. So for several weeks during the winter we don't bother to put it out.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Now what you call wheely bins are what we call garbage or trash cans right?

I think of a trash can is what we would call a dustbin, a round, metal container for household rubbish. These are now largely replaced by plastic, rectangular containers with wheels which hook onto the dust cart and are emptied automatically. Mostly there are separate ones for recyclable and non-recyclable waste.
But I am ancient, and I can't imagine you still have old fashioned dustbins, so probably yeah, right, garbage cans.

 

[Sean Regan]

Ours are more labour intensive, we leave the bins at the end of our drives and a truck conmes down the street and two men hook the bins onto the back of the truck two at a time and the truck lifts them up and tips them into the back. The men then drag th empty bins back and leave them on the pavement, "somewhere near the end of your drive."
I know in America some areas have collections made by one man in truck that has an arm that comes out and grips the bin and empties it, then puts it back at the side of the road.

 

[Black_Thumb]

I know in America some areas have collections made by one man in truck that has an arm that comes out and grips the bin and empties it, then puts it back at the side of the road.

Yup. That's how it is at our house. We put our bins out at the end of our driveway and a one-man truck comes by in a truck with a hydraulic arm and he dumps them into the big trash truck. We don't separate food, plastic, metal, or anything else. It all goes into our trash bins and gets taken away.