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COUCH COUCH COUCH -  ::) and

Brambles

Sometimes its hard to see the progress when other plots around you look so wonderful  :(

Lushy x

After the initial clearing of the plot for the first time.... it has to be..... keeping on top of the weeding. 8) 8)

I used to mow and then rake a lawn for someone, that used to half kill me! Raking really hard to dig the moss out - murder on the abs. I've always hated sit-ups and leg-raises as well, as forms of exercise - I guess I have lazy abdominals!

Hardest job I have at the moment, besides picking out couch grass weeds, is working out where everything is going to go...

*couch grass roots, I meant

Dealing with ground elder. It's far worse than couch.

The hardest thing is working.


The best thing is dreaming. Imagining how it all will look, how the produce will taste, the admiration of others.

Then when everything is decimated by bugs and the wrong weather at the wrong time thinking. Next year ............

Digging out sedge that has seeded everywhere in a client's garden. Tougher than overgrown Phormium.

I second Robert: ground elder is the worst!

Last week I cleared a square meter that was overgrown with ground elder. I took out all the white roots, dug some deeper to find some more roots and the patch was completely clean.

NOT!!!

This weekend I saw tiny leaves emerging. And not a sign of the chard I had sown.

I used to take up the slabs from the path to get to the roots underneath them. This year the war is on: Round Up!
Even though I am reluctant to use it normally, I have sprayed it on the ground elder that came up between the slabs.

I love digging.saddo I know. The job I hate the most is washing out all of the seed trays and pots. Such a long and boring job. I suppose I could do them as they get used but thats too easy. All I know is that me back kills me when I ve done it.

Quote from: shirlton on April 06, 2009, 08:03:04
I love digging.saddo I know. [The job I hate the most is washing out all of the seed trays and pots.] Such a long and boring job. I suppose I could do them as they get used but thats too easy. All I know is that me back kills me when I ve done it.

get your self a small tin bath like me Shirl,

fill it with water add a couple fl ozs jeyes,and chuck um in.

leave them there until needed.

I started using roundup on ground elder last year, very reluctantly. I hate doing it, but it's all through my hedges, and there's no other way of getting it out.

Quote from: gardentg44 on April 06, 2009, 08:12:07

Quote from: shirlton on April 06, 2009, 08:03:04
I love digging.saddo I know. [The job I hate the most is washing out all of the seed trays and pots.] Such a long and boring job. I suppose I could do them as they get used but thats too easy. All I know is that me back kills me when I ve done it.

get your self a small tin bath like me Shirl,

fill it with water add a couple fl ozs jeyes,and chuck um in.

leave them there until needed.

I have just cleaned my pots, Boring cold job. I think i'll try the jeyers got to be better than the way i do it :)

I agree about ground elder, it's a real menace. I didn't keep on top of it in my old garden, which is now my brother's, and he is a complete non-gardener. I have to go round there at some point and glyphosate it, but I know from experience it will take repeated sprays. I just hope it hasn't filled the whole garden by now!

Saying No to myself about seeds, plug plants, friut trees, etc., etc., etc?

Earthing up my spuds is the worst job for me.

Quote from: shirlton on April 06, 2009, 08:03:04
I love digging.saddo I know.

Shirl - I am another saddo as I love digging and clearing the plot aswell - very theraputic as my mind can go on auto and dream whilst the body does the work.

The thing that's the hardest for me is not sowing too much of everything and as a consequence having to pick which of my seedlings will meet the great gardener in the sky. :-\

The hardest job for me is walking past the pub on the way to the lottie,  ;)  but the job I hate doing the most, I'll stand back here and wait for the responces, is sowing indoors,  repotting and watching most of the seedlings die, next year I'm sowing most of it direct.  >:(      ;D ;D ;D

Listening to the guy next door bragging about how much better his plot is than mine.

Fighting for the limited car parking spaces on a nice sunny Sunday afternoon (ie yesterday) when everyone and their dog want to be there.

clearing couch grass from clay soil. Its either too wet so you lose all the 'soil' or too hard.

at least you can get rid of couch. I find chickweed much more of a nightmare.