WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

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  1. shiney

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    Not lot got done over the weekend as we were busy. The usual 60 - 90 minutes of watering per day always needs doing (60 minutes if it has been raining as the heavens then water the nursery beds).

    The usual 90 minutes per day of harvesting the beans. Didn't have time to spend on picking blackberries :sad: but have started picking the Williams pears - extremely tasty this year.

    On Saturday we started the hanging basket change over. We normally only have winter and summer baskets but the summer baskets seem to have really gone past their best and nothing we've been able to do has helped them recover. So we're putting up new ones.

    We intended take the fuschias out of the old ones but the surfaces are so solid with roots that we would have to destroy the rest of the plants to get them out. So they will all be going to new homes. The friends (two of them this year) that come in to water when we're away (90 minutes every day :phew:) have been invited round to choose what they want. As we go away a lot the job is quite onerous.

    Photos a bit dull as taken in the drizzle.

    These are the four that are going
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    Being replaced by two baskets of ivy leafed geraniums, one fuschia and one mixed.
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    did my shoulder in (silly old codger! :old:) moving them around so the fuschia will have to wait to be hung up. :noidea:

    I'll restrict myself (before Mrs Shiney does :heehee:) to picking beans. So it's likely to, now, take a couple of hours to do.
     
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      I thought that said pickling the beans... I was about to say steady on Shiney. I thought I was bad with pickling everything in sight but beans really lol :lunapic 130165696578242 5::loll:
       
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        Ha ha, worse than me bexy. I was commenting on customer's strawberries in front of me this morning; how big and luscious they looked. She agreed until I said you need cornish clotted cream on them too. She looked puzzled until I noticed they were in fact tomatoes. Should have gone to Specsavers :rolleyespink:
         
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          Went mad this afternoon....cut grass, trimmed a few evergreens, watered the potted plants and planted out a couple of grasses :)
          Lovely day but the sun was shy after lunch
           
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            That's because it paid a very brief visit to Scotland :spring:
             
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              Just learned most of Cornwall was bathed in hot sunshine.....just here on the coast the mist came over. Still very warm though :SUNsmile:
               
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                Its been very heavy here all afternoon as if a storm were brewing. It hasn't happened yet.
                 
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                  Nothing very productive today, school holidays is my excuse ;), but just had to share my first ever success with potatoes :yahoo:.
                  Due to.....one thing or another :rolleyespink: my charlottes got totally neglected. Planted to late, not 'earthed up', not watered and basically abandoned :redface:
                  Tonight I thought I really should just get rid of the 'mess' . As I started I found ...... potatoes!!!!
                  Can't tell you how many, I found two and started rushing round the family, proudly showing off my babies:heehee:
                  It really is the small things in life, isn't it?:spinning:
                   
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                        You are right to be pleased with yourself loki :)
                         
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                          Thanks Verdun. You can see how neglected they where:redface:
                          I like to think Mother Nature sometimes gives us a little encouragement :spinning: although as for trying blooming brassicas again :wallbanging: the jury is still out on that one:heehee:
                           
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                          @Loki What fantastic culinary masterpiece do you have planned for them?

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                          At the moment I'm thinking of framing them:snorky: My first success with potatoes in years:hapfeet:
                          On the other hand I could rummage around for some more tomorrow and actually make something with them. Providing there's more:fingers crossed:. If there is, I think something simple..... maybe potato salad? Or Boiled and crushed with lemon and (homegrown) herbs? Or roasted with garlic and rosemary?
                           
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                            Do you remember the Good Life episode where Tom was supposed to shoot the chicken?

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