Today I did something in my Garden

magicbastarder · 28-03-2020 07:35PM

looks like you've got your plans for the next two weeks of lockdown sorted, so...

uck51js9zml2yt · 28-03-2020 10:12PM

kylith wrote: »

Planted some asparagus in a big pot. In 2-3 years i’ll Eat like a king!

Where did you get the crowns from.

scarepanda · 28-03-2020 10:34PM

I took a good long walk around the garden in our new house! We finally closed yesterday and got the keys with hours to spare before lockdown!

Reckless Abandonment · 28-03-2020 10:49PM

scarepanda wrote: »

I took a good long walk around the garden in our new house! We finally closed yesterday and got the keys with hours to spare before lockdown!

That's good to hear. New or old garden?

scarepanda · 28-03-2020 10:56PM

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

That's good to hear. New or old garden?

Old. In decent nick though. Lots of mature trees and a little pond. Can't wait to get my hands stuck into it and build a veg garden. Although I think It will be a year for flowers as we haven't a notion when we'll get to move with this lockdown and there's a couple flower beds/rockeries already built

kylith · 29-03-2020 12:11AM

Adelynn Whining Windowpane wrote: »

Where did you get the crowns from.

A place in Gorey called Spice. No idea I they’ll be any good, but they had wee sprouts in the bag so i took it as a good sign.

SAM SO NITE · 29-03-2020 12:36AM

I planted Rhodedendrons and Sunflowers in my studio raised garden bed (bizarre combo I know) but they were my late mothers favourite plants.

Mad how the free time afforded to us by the virus gets us up off our arses to start into projects we have had on the long finger for ages.

beggars_bush · 29-03-2020 12:51AM

Polytunnel cleared out, manure added and ready to go
Was going to hire a rotavator to help with preparing half our newly cleared garden for lawn seed and the other half just redigging for veg
Went at it with a pick instead. Should keep me going for 5 days at least

magicbastarder · 29-03-2020 12:57AM

SAM SO NITE wrote: »

I planted Rhodedendrons and Sunflowers in my studio raised garden bed (bizarre combo I know) but they were my late mothers favourite plants.

years ago, i lived in a small house in phibsboro. on a whim one day, i grabbed a couple of handfuls of sunflower seeds i had (human food grade ones, for eating, not 'seeds'), and scattered them over the soil in the small front garden, which had recently been replaced. i ended up with a forest of sunflowers that summer, some probably 10 foot tall. i think there were actually one or two neighbours who didn't like them, but the vast majority of people who expressed an opinion loved them.

PCeeeee · 29-03-2020 01:04AM

SAM SO NITE wrote: »

I planted Rhodedendrons and Sunflowers in my studio raised garden bed (bizarre combo I know) but they were my late mothers favourite plants.

Mad how the free time afforded to us by the virus gets us up off our arses to start into projects we have had on the long finger for ages.

As good a reason to have them as any I've ever heard.

celticbhoy27 · 29-03-2020 10:06AM

Yesterday i weeded all my flower beds. They look so inviting now. All I want to do is go to a garden centre, wander around it at leisure, and purchase a few new plants :'-(

Reckless Abandonment · 29-03-2020 12:01PM

Weeded all my flower beds edged them . Half drained pond for cleaning . Built a new bench in the greenhouse (seedlings getting bigger

) cut the lawn and the mother in laws. Built a play bench for niece. I was a machine yesterday. Today might be a day of rest

dxhound2005 · 29-03-2020 05:32PM

beggars_bush wrote: »

Polytunnel cleared out, manure added and ready to go
Was going to hire a rotavator to help with preparing half our newly cleared garden for lawn seed and the other half just redigging for veg
Went at it with a pick instead. Should keep me going for 5 days at least

That will be good exercise. If you had a Chillington hoe, especially one with the double head, it might be easier. I have the ordinary ones, large and small, and they are very good.

https://www.chillingtontoolsonline.co.uk/pickmattock-p86

uck51js9zml2yt · 29-03-2020 06:14PM

My garden is currently being ploughed. The farmer is coming back mid week with his rotavator.
I'm a month ahead of schedule on last year.

beggars_bush · 30-03-2020 11:27PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That will be good exercise. If you had a Chillington hoe, especially one with the double head, it might be easier. I have the ordinary ones, large and small, and they are very good.

https://www.chillingtontoolsonline.co.uk/pickmattock-p86

Thanks
By the time that gets delivered I'll have the garden dug out and drills dug.
Hopefully putting in spuds by the weekend

paddylonglegs · 02-04-2020 01:38PM

My normal Irish site is not shipping seeds due to warehouse restrictions. Anywhere else to try get seeds, or Uk based company?

GreeBo · 02-04-2020 02:09PM

Just finshed spreading some fertilizer post scarifying and the rain has arrived for the first time in about 3 weeks....noice!

Harry Palmr · 02-04-2020 02:25PM

Carrots are in! (note to self when doing next batch for winter sow on a calm day!) The seeds are from Lidl which is proving a real help right now even if the range is of course limited.

pwurple · 02-04-2020 03:17PM

paddylonglegs wrote: »

My normal Irish site is not shipping seeds due to warehouse restrictions. Anywhere else to try get seeds, or Uk based company?

What kind of seeds? Chiltern seeds, great dixter and sarah raven are all still shipping from UK (via parcel motel for sarah raven)

Fleetwoodmac · 02-04-2020 06:12PM

paddylonglegs wrote: »

My normal Irish site is not shipping seeds due to warehouse restrictions. Anywhere else to try get seeds, or Uk based company?

Ordered from Tamar organics and Kings seeds this week, both UK.
Are seedaholics delivering or brown seed envelopes, seed savers .. all irish

02-04-2020 06:16PM

Seedaholics aren’t delivering last day I checked

scarepanda · 02-04-2020 06:27PM

Fleetwoodmac wrote: »

Ordered from Tamar organics and Kings seeds this week, both UK.
Are seedaholics delivering or brown seed envelopes, seed savers .. all irish

I checked today and seedaholic are not delivering at the moment. They were up to last week though

Cal04 · 02-04-2020 06:51PM

Looking for a Niagra Sambuca shrub/tree..saw online but shipping was nearly 9 euro so will just wait until places back running

ShiverinEskimo · 02-04-2020 07:00PM

Took about a decade of growth out of the most ignorant, spikey, annoying ditch of a hedge over the last few days. Mix of Elder, Whitethorn and Ivy. Was about 20ft high and about 10 wide. Have it down to eye level now.

Cúnt of a job. But it's done.

uck51js9zml2yt · 02-04-2020 07:15PM

Got 1st and 2nd earlies planted along with cabbage, onions and carrots in the last few days.
Planting main crop tomorrow.

kylith · 02-04-2020 07:41PM

Got carrots and peas sown today. All excited; hope the new bed works out ok.

Fleetwoodmac · 02-04-2020 07:47PM

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Took about a decade of growth out of the most ignorant, spikey, annoying ditch of a hedge over the last few days. Mix of Elder, Whitethorn and Ivy. Was about 20ft high and about 10 wide. Have it down to eye level now.

Cúnt of a job. But it's done.

Ah hope you checked for nests... our hedgegrow buzzing with birds making nests right now.

ShiverinEskimo · 02-04-2020 07:57PM

Fleetwoodmac wrote: »

Ah hope you checked for nests... our hedgegrow buzzing with birds making nests right now.

Should have said. I checked carefully for nests throughout. No leaves yet on either the Elder or Whitethorn and to be honest the birds don't nest in either it seems. I didn't even come across any old ones.

Fleetwoodmac · 02-04-2020 08:03PM

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Should have said. I checked carefully for nests throughout. No leaves yet on either the Elder or Whitethorn and to be honest the birds don't nest in either it seems. I didn't even come across any old ones.

So glad to hear, sorry I wasn't being bossy asking you that. It pains me to see our native hedges cut during nesting season. Our whitehorn here is like an apartment block, so many nesting. You'll be at the shredder for awhile after all that work!

tedpan · 02-04-2020 08:16PM

Planted a few things indoors over the past month or so.

Peppers, chillis, lettuce, kale, oregano, parsley, mint, spinach, wheatgrass, carrots, strawberries, tomatoes, beetroot and some apple trees I planted from seed in autumn 2019.

Will be moving some of them to the garden soon.

Today I did something in my Garden

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