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bramble:
Thought I would start a thread for all gardening stuff!

The year is marching on and I have just this week started on the garden. It is much later than normal - by this time all of the garden has been tidied up but the weather has been against me this year and I suppose for everyone else as well. I have a large garden with a pond and greenhouse so it takes me quite a while to get round it all in the spring. Amazing just how much you have to pick up even when you tidied up at the back end. I only have about a third of it done so far - I try and spend a few hours every day until it is finished. The days of spending a whole day working in the garden are past - I am not fit enough to do that now so I just take it in stages. Today I spent an hour clearing up one of the borders and then another hour digging out some Miscanthus grass that had crept too close to a path. It was a tough old job but glad now that it is done. I had been meaning to do it for a couple of years and never gotten round to it. So a big tick! But sore back now! Tomorrow I have a day off as too busy with other things but will continue on Saturday.

How is everyone else getting on with their gardens?
Bramble

CLKD:
Slowly  :thankyou:.  Apart from Hellebores which have been OK, Spring flowers have been late opening as have the frogs been late arriving, there are several plops of spawn but I fear some has been frosted.  I expect the fish will eat most of the tadpoles  :o.  Birds are pairing.  DH dug over the remainder of the garden on Monday, he had done the rest earlier in Jan. when there were a few nicer days.  We drove through MK this morning and there are banks of primroses, they do well on banks especially if, like those, they have leaf cover in the hotter months.  My polyanths etc. never do well here  :-\ ....... and I LOVE them.

DH put the bamboo canes in where heplans to grow runners and peas but the ground is too cold and solid to consider putting any seeds in.  There has been a belter of a rain storm just now  :o - the first real rain since end of Jan.!

ariadne:
Hubby and I tidied our very small garden last Saturday and on Sunday we made a start on the allotments.  Not a sign of blossom anywhere and I LOVE blossom.

I've not sown or planted a thing on the allotments yet- unheard of at this date.

I want to change my garden planting to something more drought proof . Maybe more evergreen things of different colours. But having said that, I looked at a photo of my garden from last year and it was full of pale pink Japanese Anemone's, purple Verbena and cerise Dahlias and it looked lovely. Maybe I shouldn't change it after all  :-\

Slightly off the subject - last year after a particularly long session with the shears, my right elbow was very painful and when I looked, it was red and swollen - hot too. It took quite a few days to go away. It has never bothered me since. Now again, after hoeing and digging at the weekend, my right forearm was aching and hurt to touch. When I looked, it is red and slightly swollen. What is this? Is it arthritis or just muscle strain?

ariadne xx

Blue:
Sorry can't help Ariadne. I have arthritis and I do hurt after a few hours in the garden, could be a bit of both, strain from work which has made joints worse.

OH has decided that I have to grow our own veg this year, and has set aside a bit of ground. I can only do short stints as well Bramble.

Pigs were electric fenced in and have done all the hard work ;)

But ground is soo wet and sticky he hasn't been able to rotivate with his minature tractor. 
I have planted seeds which are sitting next to radiator. Hopefully germinated by time we come back.

Did manage to get shrubs trimmed in back garden tho.

honeybun:
We have not touched our garden at home but have been busy at our allotment.

We garden on raised beds and also have an inside bed in a polytunnel.

So far I have sown chard,beetroot, carrots and spring onions. Also tomato seeds are in as are a new variety of sweet peas for hanging baskets. I have also got sugar snap peas and mange tout sown.

We have covered the outside bed with polythene to try and get the soil to warm up a bit.

My seed potatoes are not in yet.

We have been busy bunnies and I just love my garden although like the rest it can only be done in short bursts as I am just not fit any more.

Honeyb
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