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Today I did something in my Garden

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  • #92
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


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


  • #93
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    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.


  • #94
    scarepanda
    Registered Users Posts: 3,435 ✭✭✭scarepanda


    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!


  • #95
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    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?


  • #96
    scarepanda
    Registered Users Posts: 3,435 ✭✭✭scarepanda


    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


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  • #97
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    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.


  • #98
    SAM SO NITE
    Site Banned Posts: 221 ✭✭SAM SO NITE


    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.


  • #99
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    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


  • #100
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,234 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    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.


  • #101
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    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.


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  • #102
    celticbhoy27
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭celticbhoy27


    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 :'-(


  • #103
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    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


  • #104
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,453 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    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


  • #105
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    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.


  • #106
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users Posts: 4,336 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    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


  • #107
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,517 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


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


  • #108
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


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


  • #109
    Harry Palmr
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    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.


  • #110
    pwurple
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    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)


  • #111
    Fleetwoodmac
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭Fleetwoodmac


    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


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  • #112
    SnowyMuckish
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    Seedaholics aren’t delivering last day I checked


  • #113
    scarepanda
    Registered Users Posts: 3,435 ✭✭✭scarepanda


    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


  • #114
    Cal04
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Cal04


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


  • #115
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    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.

    508002.png


  • #116
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


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


  • #117
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


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


  • #118
    Fleetwoodmac
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭Fleetwoodmac


    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.

    508002.png

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


  • #119
    ShiverinEskimo
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    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.


  • #120
    Fleetwoodmac
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭Fleetwoodmac


    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!


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  • #121
    tedpan
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭tedpan


    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.


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