What did you do in your garden today?

[Esther Knapicius]

Boone, North Carolina.

What I really remember about Pennsylvania is Snowshoe Mountain.

big rockpile

There is a Snowshoe Mountain in WV. does not come up in PA. Yes, driving in WV can be interesting but fun.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Didn't do a lot, had to go for an eye test to get my driving licence renewed which took most of the morning, picked up a few more leaves for my pit. It is good, getting to move all sorts of pots and stuff that have stood all winter, cleared out stuff that would potentially harbour all sorts of nasties and made it useful.
First few peppers and chilli have germinated and joined the first tomatoes on the windowsill.

 

[sugarapsa]

Harvested worm castings and compost using the same size screen. Will use a 50/50 mix of these two for a trial seed mix beginning with tomatoes.

 

[skinyea]

never heard of Boone, PA. will have to look it up.
Me, I prefer to drive when we are on road trips. Even when we went to Sedona, AZ, we rented a off the road jeep, had the best time up scary hills, and gullies. But did not tilt.

I just looked up Boone, PA, no town by that name comes up.

are you talking pink Jeep tours? i did that for 2 seasons. great times

 

[Esther Knapicius]

are you talking pink Jeep tours? i did that for 2 seasons. great times

Oh, NO darling, rented my own off the road Jeep and had lots of fun with it. My husband screamed, he swallowed his balls. We drove to the Grand Canyon in it, and used it all week. Got to explore so many neat roads.

And then there was the almost balloon ride in Sedona. The balloon was still tied to the van, I got in the basket, but Mr. Wind had another idea, he lifted half the van up, I yelled out profanity and slumped down in the basket. They canceled .

 

[Sean Regan]

My new water heater arrived today around half past three. It's taken me an hour to connect it up. One new bracket on the wall, one water and one electrical connection, how hard could that be?
It was a slightly harder than you might imagine, as the water connection wasn't in the same place as the old one, so it needed a bit of "fettling." A new piece of pipe from the on/off control below the basin, an elbow and a new piece of pipe from that to the control valve. Fortunately, I had some pipe, a new elbow and some olives.

A plumber's best tool is a pipe cutter.
It's like a small doughnut. You place it on the pipe where you want to cut it and turn it. This scores through copper pipe in seconds it makes a clean cut and the ends are slightly chamfered so an olive slips over the end easily.

Anyway, it's up and running with no leaks.

The replaced insulation looks a bit tatty, but then, this just a water heater in a garage!

I bought this new on eBay for £169 a saving of over £50 than that at B&Q.
So I'm well pleased.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

A plumber's best tool is a pipe cutter.

I'll go with that, much better than a junior hacksaw, so long as the pipe is round and hasn't been squashed at all.

I have a leaking joint on a 90 degree bend on my water collection system, the pipe runs along the join of patio and house wall before coming up for the butt. Because it is a considerable length and goes behind a downpipe it has to be soldered in place, and the brick wall is just too much of a heat sink to get a proper joint. Today I bit the bullet and bought a compression joint, too horrid weather to actually put it on, but first decent day...
Too horrid to be out, so I potted on my first tomato seedlings, seven moneymaker, seven RAF. I plan planting more seeds tomorrow, and again when I pot them on , and so on. I will get a lot of spares but I can keep the best two or three from each sowing, give away the rest, and hopefully get a successional harvest.

 

[big rockpile]

Did a heavy watering today.

Cleaned my Asparagus Bed and put some Compost on it.

Noticed some Daffodils are coming up. Noticed I have Coleus coming up.

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[Logan]

Nothing today it's raining again.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Nothing today it's raining again.

Also here.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Raining on and off all day again, there are huge puddles all over the garden. It is clay, so water doesn't sink in, but we are near the top of a hill, so it drains reasonably quickly. Anyway I couldn't walk on it, so I dodged in and out between showers and fixed my water collection system. Still got caught by the rain though, but at least it is going the right way.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Noticed some Daffodils are coming up. Noticed I have Coleus coming up.

I have a whole bunch of crocus in flower out the front. I potted on all my bulbs last year, not sure what I had but they are coming into flower now, a lovely bowl of jet-fire and three pots and a trough of miniature yellow daffs. More coming looking more like conventional daffs. There are some iris as well, but I knew them from the bulbs.

 

[sugarapsa]

Started lining the outside of my metal horse trough planters with cedar pickets. At least until my compressor gave out. Namely the pressure regulator. The new regulator assembly which includes the manifold should be here in a few days. Looking forward to getting this project behind me.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Raining here.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Did a heavy watering today.

Cleaned my Asparagus Bed and put some Compost on it.

Noticed some Daffodils are coming up. Noticed I have Coleus coming up.

big rockpile

Lots of snowdrops here, and crocus. and early daffs about 5 inches up. But when you have over 400 Thousand bulbs its normal for me to see my early guys. And nothing is "some" over here.