What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

At the moment the weather is switching between raining a lot most of the time and raining a little the rest of the time. I watch the puddles grow from the window.

 

[Sean Regan]

Too wet to do any gardening.
Our hedgehog is still active and eating anything I put out for it. She must be stocking up ready for hibernation.

 

[Ernst]

It was an all cats day. All the cats inside from the cold and the rain.
I never got the chance to work the plot as teh rain started before I finished my first cup of coffee.

Today:
Waiting for the Sunrise.
A little Sara Smile by Hall and Oats on the old playola with coffee.

 

[Sean Regan]

It was an all cats day. All the cats inside from the cold and the rain.
I never got the chance to work the plot as teh rain started before I finished my first cup of coffee.

Today:
Waiting for the Sunrise.
A little Sara Smile by Hall and Oats on the old playola with coffee.

Here's another Hall & Oates "Sara song." From a single in my jukebox. I've also got it on the album "Abandoned Luncheonette,"
It was a million seller, but took twenty years to achieve it.
Such is their appeal to succeeding generations

If that doesn't play try this.

"For those who may be unaware."

Sara Allen the song writer, was the inspiration for Sara Smile.
Hall had a nearly 30-year relationship with her, before he married someone else.


I've always admired the music of Daryl Hall. "Songs from Daryl's House" on YouTube are worth a look.
His voice has lasted better than his friend, Tod Rundgren's, I've the latter's "I Saw the Light" on a double album I bought in the early seventies and the single in the same jukebox.

If you search for "Every Time You Go Away" on YouTube, you'll probably get that of Paul Young's, but Daryl wrote it and recorded it first and I think it's a better version.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Rain, rain, rain. In the short gaps between I had the steps out and cleaned the moss from the gutters, as they were overflowing. This raises a question. How to worms get up there? I always find them when I do that job.
Mixed roughly equal quantities of wood ash, sieved burnt clay and manure and dressed the garlic with it.

 

[big rockpile]

We put Heater in the Greenhouse yesterday and it is doing fine.

Found the Fans I have are too strong so ordered couple smaller ones.

Raining today so busy day tomorrow.

big rockpile

 

[big rockpile]

Can I be tiered? Mowed and Airyated the Front Lawn.

Took Shade Cloth off the Greenhouse. Sun is out and it is cool but 82F in the Greenhouse.

Planted Daffodil and Tulip bulbs. Started planting Tiger Lillies but battery went dead on my Drill and I think I need the bigger auger.

big rockpile

 

[Steve @ Celtic Farm]

Cleaned some old rusty gardening tools I found at an estate sale with vinegar. I love using these old tools, and this process was quick.

 

[Sean Regan]

Didn't do much as it was raining most of the day. But I did one job, when it stopped for a bit.
I noticed when I was putting a bag of rubbish out last night that one of the security lights on the front of the house wasn't working. I checked it by switching it off from its socket in the small bedroom. It didn't come on as it should, so it was likely to be the bulb.
It would have to be the top one which is level with the bottom of the small window.

"Now I'm not supposed to use ladders as I'm 83."
But fortunately, I was able to sneak my big set of ladders out of the garage and round to the front of the house without my wife noticing. These are really versatile ladders as there's hinges in three places,
You can use them as a platform, there's these panels you can stand on.

I use them mostly as a step ladder like this. I'll be using them when I prune this big acer when all the leaves are down.

They also unfold to make a tall ladder which is very sturdy, so I had no problems changing the bulb and getting the ladders back in the garage without my wife knowing, as I hadn't mentioned the faulty lamp last night.

 

[big rockpile]

First I watered, plant some Tiger Lilly bulbs then put different fans in the Greenhouse.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

Should have been a golf day but the course was closed as it's far too wet.
Went into the garden just to take these photos. Our acer palmatums start to go a "firey red" before they shed their leaves. We've rarely seen this in decades, as usually the frost gets to them before this happens. But as it's been so mild they are just starting to turn.

The wisteria leaves are starting to yellow, I'll give it a week or too and then I'll strip therm and remove any new growth that's bolted. Otherwise I'll be having to be forever removing fallen leaves between now and the end of the year.
I do this every year and do the main pruning between Christmas and New Year.

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

First I watered, plant some Tiger Lilly bulbs then put different fans in the Greenhouse.

big rockpile

Didn't do much as it was raining most of the day. But I did one job, when it stopped for a bit.
I noticed when I was putting a bag of rubbish out last night that one of the security lights on the front of the house wasn't working. I checked it by switching it off from its socket in the small bedroom. It didn't come on as it should, so it was likely to be the bulb.
It would have to be the top one which is level with the bottom of the small window.

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"Now I'm not supposed to use ladders as I'm 83."
But fortunately, I was able to sneak my big set of ladders out of the garage and round to the front of the house without my wife noticing. These are really versatile ladders as there's hinges in three places,
You can use them as a platform, there's these panels you can stand on.


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I use them mostly as a step ladder like this. I'll be using them when I prune this big acer when all the leaves are down.

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They also unfold to make a tall ladder which is very sturdy, so I had no problems changing the bulb and getting the ladders back in the garage without my wife knowing, as I hadn't mentioned the faulty lamp last night.

Replied but forgot to log in - didn't go back to my draft reply this time...

So.... I use a long telescopic pole with a bulb grabber thing on the end. We have cathedral ceilings (vaulted ceilings in the UK, I think). Maybe that would work better - though it looks like there may be a lens cover over the bulb?

Used to use my 16ft telescopic ladder for replacing one of the HVAC filters. Stupid place to put it. Due to the ceiling angle and wall, the louvered cover has to hinge down right in your face! And it's 2 ft square! And those stupid little sheet metal clips are worthless - a real struggle to use, specially on a ladder. So step #1, I got some of those little high power ceramic magnets and used some 3M extreme strength double sided tape. Works great! Step #2, I'm making a customer grabber thing for my pole (keep yer mind out of the gutter), for opening the cover and removing and replacing the filter standing on the floor. We have a central vacuum system with several extension tubes, so I can clean the cover standing on the floor anyway.

 

[Ernst]

Well Fall fell!

Right into frozen we went yesterday and this morning I was sorting the food waste, from a public meal house, from the trash.
This is the first time I put a bucket of frozen food in for the Black Soldier Flies.

Their compost thermometer reports their core is still quite warm.

That is an interesting aspect of Black Soldier fly larvae; the have (communal) (anaerobic) compost management skills.
I have noticed they maintain a core. They also have something of a wiggle-fest social too at times.
They play, fight and whatever is cool for them.

So not all that much food-waste last night with it being the American Halloween holiday with. most likely, folks were doing that sort of partying. In places were there is a strong gravity of "Family" then it's rather local and for the Adults ; well it can be rather.. AHEM.. Adult.

EDIT: hehe Terminator... LOL Spell check without spectacles can be funny.
Not "Their Compost Terminator .. Thermometer."

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Battened down against the predicted storm last night, brought in all the empty buckets, laid a couple of eight foot fence posts across the greenhouse roof etc. Not been out there to check how it went yet.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Nipped out between (heavy) showers and checked things. All still there except for one batten across a polythene end on the old greenhouse, but the poly is still there so it did its job before it came off. I put it on with pins , so I'll replace it with screws and hopefully it will 'see me out'