What have you done today in the Garden?

I think you now making something I said about the lips joke as a big issue..
I just felt it was not very nice on the garden thread...
thanks but no thanks..............out of this place

 

Watered the pots and polyanthus.

 

"Out of this place?"

Really?

I think you are over reacting.

That's a shame, but you'll find it everywhere, if you criticise someone on a message board or "suggest" they should not have posted something, when whatever the comment in that post wasn't directed at you, don't be surprised if that person considers your response, "out of order."

The "I just" excuse doesn't cut it.

Leave the "moderation" to those who's job it is.
If you object strongly about something on a board, use the "report" button, that's what it's for.

 

Checked 'arry's feeding station today and he'd eaten most of his dinner last night. So we seem back to normal. He's been digging in places through the phlox on the rockery.


Just a few hoursin the garden today.

What was the filter room when we had the koi pool, became the "back-up freezer room" when I closed it down. The basin and the hot and cold water supply have been there since I built the pool. Now there's too many power sockets which were necessary with the pool, so I've taken out a single and a double over the basin, leaving just two doubles and I took out a double one the other side, over the freezers, leaving just two doubles. The yellow plug was for the quarantine pool strip light, but I've since added the supply to it to the lighting circuit.







It has a decking floor, a false ceiling and a door in a partition into the garage proper. The fluorescent was over the 300 gallon quarantine pool, but I've left it as it is. Thinking back I made the reflector from a length of plastic roof guttering and some end pieces, for an old fluorescent fitting I had. I just painted the inside white.






But for the last six months, it's been a store room for some of our youngest son's furniture, (more was in the garage proper), when he and his partner sold their second house until they bought another. House purchased, furniture's gone.
it wasn't as clean looking as this, so I've given it a good tidy up and I'll probably re-paint it tomorrow.
When we had the house re-decorated a few years ago we ended up with two five litre cans of an off-white shade when my wife decided she didn't like the colour she'd chosen. "So I look for things to paint."

As a room it's handy as it's quite dry. So we can keep our new garden furniture in it, which haven't used this year.
I could use it as workshop as it's less draughty than the garage, almost airtight. But I've no projects in mind at the moment.

 

I have been burning sticks from the storms.

 

What's this got to do with gardening? If it was a joke well I don't see the connection to anything on this thread.

 

Err..

I didn't start with the lips joke, I responded to another one that already had been posted.
I wouldn't dream of complaining about anyone's post unless they were having a go at me. Post what you like where you like, it's just a message board. It really doesn't matter that much.

 

Yes just move on and sorry I didn't mean it just for you @Doghouse Riley

Watered the 25 potted blueberries.

 

Did the re-painting of the "freezer room" at the back of the garage. Now looks little different from as it did in 2019 when I took the previous photos. I first removed the three surplus power points.
I keep spare golf gear in here, a tour bag and a full set of irons and woods, replaced by the new ones I bought, a "carry/stand bag" for if ever electric trolleys are banned on the course and a "pull trolley," in case my leccy one brakes down.

When this was the filter and quarantine tank room for the koi, I replaced one of the garage roof panels with a clear plastic one and put this skylight in the false roof I made. The clear plastic panel can be slid away if I ever need to get at the electrics in the ceiling.

The Santon water heater must be around fifty years old, I got it in the late seventies and it was second-hand then. My firm used an old mill as a storage warehouse for all surplus fittings from store closures and refits, which ended up in it. Remember the end scene in Raiders of the Last Ark? It was like that. I was friendly with the works manager and I asked him if he'd an old water heater in the warehouse that had come from a re-fit and he found me this, I think I paid a couple of quid for it. The outer casing is a bit rusty in places, but it 's worked perfectly ever since.




There's a story behind the table top freezer on top of the other one. I bought it almost new on eBay for not a lot of money. The vendor had a son starting at university in Scotland, he was going to share a flat with two other students, but mentioned the flat didn't have a freezer. So his dad being a dad, went out and bought this. It's unusual as it has a lock on it. Ideal for people sharing accommodation or the residents of nurses' dormitories. When he phoned his son to tell him about the freezer, his son said he no longer needed one as they were getting a better flat for less money and it had a freezer!

I keep a stock of dinners for 'arry in a tray on the top.

There's not a lot in either of these freezers at the moment as we're expecting a delivery from Donald Russell which my wife buys on-line, the freezer in the Meile fridge/freezer in the kitchen seems always to be full.




I dumped the two striped padded fabric loungers in the previous set of photos as they haven't been used for years.
We have added four immitation "rattan" chairs, but neither they nor the newish green loungers got used this year as they were buried behind the stored furniture!.
Whilst I was wearing my "electrician's head," I put this spare PIR security light on the back of the garage. I replaced it and a matching one on the side of the drive when one went U/S and I couldn't find another like it, well it is ten years old. We now have two PIRs with conventional lamps in them in the same positions. But the one next to the kitchen door doesn't come on if I'm coming out of the garden through the door in the fence, until I'm nearer it. It can also go off whilst I'm sorting out the bins. This will solve that problem.


This afternoon it was more mundane tasks like mowing and dead-heading roses. The lawn's looking a bit rubbish with a few dead patches, I'm sure it's the work of the manky old cat of the people opposite, who let it roam all night.

 

Well golf was off this morning so I raked the lawn for storm sticks and got about 5 carts to start the compost pile. The heavy sticks I put on the burn pile. I already burned once after the hurricane, so production is up out there getting ready for fall. Is it not interesting how the winds that come with changing temps have the trees excited with so much mast crop ready to be dried and shaken out. Now I will power rake the lawn to dethatch, then core it and fertilize it. I cannot decide to seed fescue, I can do it in november when the leaves have come down an there is more sun then. I love not having snow.

 

Yesterday, whilst I was out playing golf, dpd collected the Flymo garden vac I'd purchased direct from Flymo in April that went U/S a fortnight ago. They are giving me a refund.
Tuesday mornings are always a" shopping day," but while I was out my new garden vac/blower arrived. So I assembled it and gave it a go.
There's a swing down "window" on the other side so you can freee up the shredding vanes if they ever get jammed.





I like the wide quick release detachable scoop on the front, it means you can hoover the patio and paths more easily and a lot quicker. You don't have to remove it to use it as a blower. It's rated at 3KW like the Flymo but I think it has better "blow and suck."
So I'm well pleased with it.

 

Just watering things today it's too hot for anything else to do in the garden.

 

Been out all day today to the coast for a work break as it's Ziggy's birthday. Potted up another two dozen Geum Mrs Bradshaw for the new beds. It is such a lovely red, and flowers for a long time - just right to boost the colours next year.

 

Did some deadheading and watered the hanging baskets. Hopefully on Monday going to start planting the wallflowers.

 

The usual pruning weeding and mowing. I'm very impressed with my new Grizzly garden blower/vac, far more powerful and efficient than the Flymo that broke down after four months three weeks back. All these shredder types have nylon or whatever, blades in their fans, but this one also has one metal blade for anything that is too tough for the other blades.

Then I did a bit of housekeeping.
This big shrub at the end of the rockery had put on a lot of growth lately, it was even bigger than this, taken earlier this year.
Not only was it getting intrusive, it also drops a lot of leaves each year. If I cut it down in size it would have looked odd.

So it went.
It's improved the aspect from the lounge windows.



Our little acer palmatum Taylor bought a few months ago wasn't doing very well in its pot on the patio, so I moved it to the top of the old koi pool waterfall, rerplacing the shrub. Hopefully it will recover, grafted acers like this don't always do well, but if it doesn't, I'll buy another and replace it. It will look good in this position. I'll encourage the euonymus to spread along the fence now the shrub which was preventing it has gone.