What did you do in your garden today?

[Oliver Buckle]

So Sheal and Sean, liked me having a bad eye and getting stung The eye is improving, the sting has gone down, but I have been feeling rubbish, spent most of yesterday in bed, but got out there this morning and started moving my compost heap so I can use the good stuff down the bottom and the rest gets turned and some air let in.

 

[Sean Regan]

So Sheal and Sean, liked me having a bad eye and getting stung The eye is improving, the sting has gone down, but I have been feeling rubbish, spent most of yesterday in bed, but got out there this morning and started moving my compost heap so I can use the good stuff down the bottom and the rest gets turned and some air let in.

Sorry about your bad eye and getting stung.

"Liking a post," for most, is just indicating that you've bothered to read it.

 

[Sean Regan]

Nothing in the garden, apart from feeding birds and squirrels, but I did a little job in the house.
Over thirty years ago I made a shelf for the hall.
I made it at the same time as I made this bookcase on the other side of the hall.

Over time the shelf has got a bit scruffy, with stuff being put on it. Like infusers that might leak a bit.

So I cleared everything off it this afternoon and rubbed it down with a couple of grades of glasspaper, then repolished it.

They are both made from 9" hardwood bullnosed edge skirting boards.
Ideal at the time, as I don't remember the wood being that expensive. It was cheaper than buying a bookcase and I could make it the size we wanted.
But not any more. The length of wood for the shelf would cost about £100 now. I shudder to think how much the wood for the bookcase would be.

I'll give the shelf another coat of polish after Christmas.

 

[Sheal]

So Sheal and Sean, liked me having a bad eye and getting stung The eye is improving, the sting has gone down, but I have been feeling rubbish, spent most of yesterday in bed, but got out there this morning and started moving my compost heap so I can use the good stuff down the bottom and the rest gets turned and some air let in.

As Sean said 'like' is the only way of acknowledging a post @Oliver Buckle and the other smilies aren't suitable. I'm glad to hear things have improved with your eye and sting though.

 

[big rockpile]

Buried Squirrel cleanings in the garden. Cover Crop is looking good.

Bagged up some soil.

It was raining and cool so I went to the Greenhouse where it was warm.

Repotted some of my Sons stuff.

He had some Mullen . He didn't know what it was so I repotted it and it is happy.

Took care of the Chickens and put some wood in the Wood Box that's all I can get in with one Arm.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

Just had a look at this wisteria, as will the others, it'll get it's annual winter prune next week.

I'm going to reduce the number of "heads" as it's producing too much foliage in the second half of the year and it's a pain to clear it when it dies off. It will still produce well over a hundred blooms. I'll remove some of the old wood.

I won't be so drastic with the one on the pergola on the back of the house. The foliage becomes quite dense and acts as a bit of a sunshade for the lounge.
Forty years ago, I made this retractable sunshade. But it had to go when I built the pergola.

I'm pleased the bamboo seems not to have suffered from the replacement of part of the back fence. The roots would have been hard up against the lower of the two concrete base panels and the two concrete post which were replaced.

 

[big rockpile]

Did some watering and

checked on my Basil and Peppermint and their sprouting. The Beans are to see how this soil is doing.

Cleaned out half the Chicken House and put it on my Compost.

big rockpile

 

[Meadowlark]

Clearing out my side of a fencerow...about 1/2 finished. Already have made 1/2 dozen excellent posts from the cedar cleared out. Gonna have tons of mulch from this project for the garden.

 

[big rockpile]

Well started out putting Squirrel cleanings in the garden.

Did some watering.

Decided to plant some in the Greenhouse but got half way done.

big rockpile

 

[Sean Regan]

Got a bit done this afternoon.
Gave this wisteria its,"winter prune,"

I also thinned out some of the heads as there were too many branches. It looks a bit bare, but there well still be a hell of a lot of blooms and foliage.

We'll still get a lot of blooms but less foliage later in the year.


Tied up the right-hand end of the bamboo, it was flopping towards the tea-house and triggering the security light on the side of the building last night.

The black bamboo behind the pagoda has always been a bit of a disappointment, we've had it for over 15 years and that's as tall as it has got.

By half past two, it was getting dark and starting to rain and all the security lights were coming on if I got near any of them, so I came in.

 

[big rockpile]

Yes once again waterd.

Planted some Potatoes, Onions, Lettuce, Spinach, Beets and Carrots.

Got my Heat Mats got Seedlings and unsprouted Seed setting on them.


Can't figure out how to put a Timer for the Light so have it 24/7.

big rockpile

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Sowed all the spare broad beans. It is not really the right time according to the 'authorities', but I do it regularly. I use the cardboard tubes from the middle of the Christmas paper, cut into short lengths and stood up in a margarine tub. The cardboard is a good indicator when to water.
Cleared up in the greenhouse a fair bit, lots of dead leaves, some blown in and some around the fig. took all the dead stuff out and weeded both the agapanthus {Agapanthi?}, then made up some really nice compost, manure, wood ash, bonemeal, and Epsom salts mix and gave them all a good top dressing.
Did a few bits of clearing up outside and dropped a fair bit in my new compost heap.

 

[Logan]

Nothing today it's raining again.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

It was sheeting down earlier, but now it has cleared up and there was even a bit of sunshine just now. I'll take a walk out and a look around, but it is probably too wet for anything, unless I can find a job in the greenhouse.

 

[Sean Regan]

It rained earlier a bit, but quite dry now. It'll be raining later and on Monday and Tuesday. The golf course will likely be closed tomorrow, but dry enough to play on Wednesday.

The first completely dry day is likely to be Thursday, so I might get into the wisteria after doing the week's shop in the morning.
I could do a bit this afternoon, but I'd rather watch Fulham play Arsenal on TV at 2.00pm. It'll be dark by the time the game is over.

Why are there two female and only one male pundit for a men's game?

Sport on TV is being, "over equalitied"