How do you garden????

[Mimi]

I'm with the general pottering brigade  ;)  mind you I'm not averse to a bit of bubble blowing    ;D

[Mimi]

[Paulines7]

Favourite job is opening a bottle of chilled white  wine, sitting back and looking over my (growing) kingdom after spending a warm day weeding, digging, sowing, harvesting.

I'll go along with this too.   Admiring the results of hard work over a bottle of wine having harvested, cooked and eaten some of the produce on the barbie.

[Garden Manager]

I think I like planting things the best. Nothing better than the promise of new glories and the satisfaction of giving a plant you have grown and nurtured the chance to do its thing (and if its a veggie plant that also means ultimately something good to eat).

Another favorite 'task' is going around the garden when things are looking their best nd taking photos of the plants and the garden.

Least fave task: Weeding, that said there is nothing more satisfying than 'de-weeding' a patch of ground and have nice clean/clear soil left.

[aquilegia]

I'm a general potterer!

I can most usually be found pottering about the garden with a bucket, pair of secarteurs and trowel. I just wander about (usually clockwise) weeding, pruning, dead heading, cutting back, picking up cat manure, etc, whatever needs doing. Occassionally the bucket is full of compost for mulching, but mostly it's full of weeds and stuff to go on the compost.

And then there are times when I just sit and look. Either planning things, or pondering the meaning of life, etc.

Sometimes I have a specific job planned, like (as it is at the moment - waiting for a warm enough day!) sieving and digging the compost bins, or planting or sowing something, but I'm happiest when pottering.

[jennym]

Its nice to potter especially when you know you've done all the urgent jobs in the garden, and you have time just to tweak things.

[Garden Manager]

I do quite like to potter sometimes. it often looks like i am doing nothing though, when really i am looking at things and planning changes or future work. ;D

[froglets]

Another vote for the pottering here, closely followed by sitting and looking & thinking about what to do for the next season with a rapidly cooling cup of tea in my hand.

They say that's why gardeners make it to ripe old ages, always planning for next year and looking forward to seeing if they were right.

oh, and I do do a bit of chatting to the frogs in the rockery & offering up caterpillars for them to munch.  And chatting to the robins.  Maybe I need to make more friends & get out more.... Nah.

[fbgrifter]

pruning....its just soooooo cathartic

[grawrc]

I just love it all - so "other".