Gardening in Autumn:
Autumn for a gardenr means lots of work to do in garden or on allotment, yet it gets dark early so less daylight to work in. OK no problem will get there in the end just take longer to get the work done. Some of the work is time sensitive (such as moving plants) but a few days or a week late wont make much difference.
Then, along comes days of wet and occasionaly windy weather, resulting in time spent sat indoors looking out thinking about what needs doing, and sometimes having to look at what needs doing from indoors.
Then finaly the weather breaks and nice sunny days follow, but than of course along come the frosts, so work starts late once the frost has melted (still getting dark early so even shorter working days). But at least its nice enough to get things done even if it is cold.
Then comes the dilemma. Geting a bit late now for some jobs, so garden er tries to prioritise before deciding to crack on as planned, hoping to 'wing it' (take a chance) and that the weather holds. it doesnt. before long the wet and wind is back leading to yet more lost days sat inside. Of course in the midst of all this come other commitments, the gardener ends up doing other things on days good enough for gardening. More rain following compounds frustration.
its now getting late in the year, december and christmas not far away, and its technicaly far too late for many of the jobs gardener still wants to do before winter. Now decisions have to be made, how best to use what time is available for gardening? Gardener dithers, so many jobs not enough time, gardener doesnt make best use of time available. Just being able to get outside and work is a bonus to them.
Such is the trials and tribulations of a british gardener in autumn (2006). Sound familair to anyone? Does to me!
we're getting 10 tons of 15 year old rotted horse muck, most of it has to be moved straight away as the club won't be happy
we can count on maybe 5 people to turn up, most have physical disabilities so it's going to be a tremendous effort
so, get ready for rain, hail and whatever else comes..still, we have a shed, a heater and plenty of tea bags.. :)
:)Sod the club scousers they nicked your land let it stand a bit let them suffer. :'( :'( :'( ;D
unfortunately, it just smells like lovely top soil, don't worry, we're not going to kill ourselves
when they dropped the bombshell about the allotments, we were assured that "some of the rugby lads would shift the manure when we got it ", fat chance !!,
they've let us down at every turn, they were supposed to be fitting a fence but we were told this year that they have " no money for any other section so we must look for our own funding",
that's why all the grant money has to go on fencing instead of a proportion going on the new allotments for flagging and sheds etc
still, we won't let the b**gers get us down !! :)
Garden Cadet -- it all boils down to that old adage...
What's the difference between a good gardener and a lousy gardener?
About a fortnight.
::)
i know exactly how you feel. i now have no time except for the weekend.....so if the weather is rough then....things get put on hold for another week.
I don't even get to look at my garden anymore to see how things are doing. i get 2 minutes first thing in the morning before i head off for work. when i comeback...it's pitch dark at 6pm.
and i've still a lot to do. lots of muscari to plant. los of tulips and crocuses to still plant lol. and i still have a pond to finish. nevermind the greenhouse i have sitting half unpacked in the backyard. i've still got to finish some of my raised beds and hammer in some log rolls and i still need to mow the lawn asap before it gets too long. not that it is....but i want it to be nice and short so that the crocuses stand out better in the spring.
Know exactly what you mean.
Missed last weekend due to being exhausted, sadly it was a good weather weekend. Got rained off today, land's too wet to walk on, let alone work. We're getting so hammered with foul weather that I spotted pools of water in my alium bed (never seen that before!)
Mum - bless her - came down for a week about afortnight ago and really made things look like they were under control including starting to tackle the terrifying and over-run inherited fruit bed. Methinks I owe her a rather good xmas prezzie!
Given up on sowing anything and focussing on structural and set up jobs (creating a cage for the brassical bed, sorting out where the shed/greenhouse will go.
it never ends....!
Hi all, we're frustrated for a different reason - we can't get our hands on our plot until 1 January!!! >:( I guess we should be glad of the free time, i've got a feeling we won't have much once we get going! kitten x
Got up late today and lost great allotment time... still managed about three hours though...
:-[
Quote from: saddad on November 26, 2006, 17:13:08
Got up late today and lost great allotment time... still managed about three hours though...
:-[
better than nothing. all i managed to do today was sow some berries that i collected into pots. It's been raining heavily down here for the last 2 days....pretty much non stop....especially at night it's peltin it down.