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As you can see, i needed to liven up the boards a bit (sort of!) so I thought i would run a poll!, Lets see how it goes! Dan :-)

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We can only vote for ONE task Dan?

Tricky.......

Well obviously the top one for me is planting but then, to get that right you have to do the weeding and the soil prep and the shuffling of other things to make room for new stuff and the piling up of rejects on the compost heap - they are all so satisfying but on different levels............   Sometimes just buying or growing the new plants is excitement enough.

Sad.   But fun!

But I hate everything to do with gardening!

Sorry peeps, I see this is a bit difficult  :(

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 voted other, cos I likes everything to do with the garden, from weeding, to growing, to cutting, to cropping, to barbys and drinking!  ;D

I think EJ and Celtic Growers have it perfectly in my opinion!

Other...love mowing the lawn.  Thats why i do it at leass twice a week.....   ;D

Dan,

Can you not do it so we have to put tasks in order, not just choose one?

OK guys, I know we'll all have weeding first!

I've voted 'other' as well, cos 'chilling' seems too damned cold, but the bestest time is going back into the garden, showered after spending the whole day a-diggin,a-weedin & a-mowin, with a drink, inspecting what I've achieved - and planning the next onslaught. Bliss. :)

perfect!

How do I change it Cotswold Lass?

I love mowing the lawn too Adam- most of the time!

Everything, so I voted other ... !

Oh Dear Dan,

Don't ask me technical questions (she of no avatar, pics, anything except text!). Can we rate them between one and five?

Over to you!

CLx

I'm liking the way that, roughly translated, 'general pottering' + a drink is equalling 'other' - and we're almost in the lead - 2 more voters to go, is all  ;D ;D ;D

In order of one to five:
1. weeding
2. weeding
3. weeding
4. weeding
5. weeding

6. Only joking!  ;D

I'm a general potterer...I think. I set out to do a task but always get distracted. Spent most of my time last year poking about in my little sink pond looking for froglets. Oh and blowing bubbles.  Tum te tum   ::)  :D!

"blowing bubbles" Heldi? You're blowing my theory out of the water  :o ;D

Have you ever seen a cartoon where it shows someone plastered? They are always shown to be blowing bubbles  ;)  Hic!

Can I change my vote to other...I dunno.Maybe I do general pottering of the other kind ?

I'm with the drinkers (and bubble blowers!) so I guess I'll have to vote 'other' ....

incorporating all my favourite things like having a barbie on a sunny evening with friends to admire all the home sown, newly planted wonderful  flowers and edibles in my garden! Cheers!

CLx

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

Quote from: Celtic_Growers on February 23, 2006, 21:01:28
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

pruning....its just soooooo cathartic

I just love it all - so "other".