The zombie army COVID-19 Gardening thread.

[Harry Flashman]

I found a decomposed one of those in my garden recently. I don't see many, which is a perhaps a shame as my .22 air rifle could help me to entertain myself in these days of confinement...

[RC1807]

As it was lovely and sunny, albeit rather cold, I decided to jetwash the patio and side path earlier.
All dried now, and looks much brighter for it. It gets very green in Winter.

As for garages, Flash, yours is tidy!
We've 1 car in our 2 car tandem garage, and the rest really needs a good sort out, clean the floors, move things out, recycling, etc. Of course, our recycling centre is closed for the foreseeable, as is our local DIY / garden centre, so a bit limited as to what we could do.


Keep calm and carry on, etc.

[jke11y]

Good thread, I too have been using my “time off” to sort things in the garden.

Started off last week with this £100 gumtree trailer purchase.



Which has been put straight to use clearing stuff to the dump. Things which have been in the garden for the 4 years we’ve lived here. Old planters, rotten sleepers and some other bits of tree.

Also cleared this lot; which I’m now going to be chopping up and trailering to the dump when it reopens. The boys (4 and nearly 3) love playing down at the bottom of the garden when I’m down there and now it’s not such a jungle.

Plenty more to do; want to clear the bank just below where I’m standing, and the area beyond the burn before the wall (spot the 4yr old).

Edited by jke11y on Thursday 26th March 13:34

[8-P]

jke11y said:

Good thread, I too have been using my “time off” to sort things in the garden.

Started off last week with this £100 gumtree trailer purchase.



Which has been put straight to use clearing stuff to the dump. Things which have been in the garden for the 4 years we’ve lived here. Old planters, rotten sleepers and some other bits of tree.

Also cleared this lot; which I’m now going to be chopping up and trailering to the dump when it reopens. The boys (4 and nearly 3) love playing down at the bottom of the garden when I’m down there and now it’s not such a jungle.

Plenty more to do; want to clear the bank just below where I’m standing, and the area beyond the burn before the wall (spot the 4yr old).

Edited by jke11y on Thursday 26th March 13:34

Bargain!

Is that a river or just some sort of puddle?

[fiatpower]

I've built one half of a double gate however due to a slight measurement error i've now not got enough wood to finish the second half off.... I see B&Q are doing click & collect but can't justify that as an essential need so it will just have to wait.

In the meantime i've got a load of bushes to tidy up and a robot mower to install (although I can't wire it in properly). That should keep me busy for a while.

[ChrisDT]

I've managed to clear the back fence of the garden and remove the dead stumps that have been bugging me for the last 10 years. Also going to dig a path to the summerhouse (Shed with windows) and the garage has had a tidy and a sweep out.

Got an old C90 Honda in there that I have been meaning to get on and do something with for the last 6 years if not more.

Great time to get work done and sort the garden. Plus, the house has never been tidier with everyone here!

[jke11y]

8-P said:

Bargain!

Is that a river or just some sort of puddle?

I'm in Scotland, so it's a burn

It comes in at one side of the garden and out the other corner - lovely trickle in summer and occasionally in winter it gets pretty full, photo below is just after the storms a few weeks ago. Really nice place to sit as nobody can see you and its peaceful. Will be better when its cleared a bit more, as it had got out of hand.

[paralla]

Not a garden as such but as close as I've got.

I scrubbed the hardwood decking boards of the roof terrace with a stiff broom, Vanish Oxy Action powder and water after reading that Napi-San is a good deck cleaner. It worked a treat. 24 hours to dry and I just finished oiling it with the oil that's been in the loft since last summer.

[PositronicRay]

From this

To this



To be fair the hard work was done during the winter, so I've been planting. Just waiting for the shrubs to grow.

[Harry Flashman]

I am loving these updates. But seeing some very ridy gardens (you know who you are, teacher's pets) has left me a little depressed.

[8-P]

We moved 4 years ago.

Im almost annoyed that Ive already done all the back breaking boring tasks! They would have been perfect for this year although getting shot of some of the soil etc could now be difficult I guess - that and going round garden centres for shrubs etc is now a no go.

I have one area left to do, but involves removing pyracantha(sp?) and Im not sure if I can go to the tip with it and or get bark chips or shrubs to fill the gap

Edited to say local tip is shut(Hampshire) so thats that

[Swervin_Mervin]

Harry Flashman said:

I am loving these updates. But seeing some very ridy gardens (you know who you are, teacher's pets) has left me a little depressed.

I'll cheer you up tomorrow don't worry!

[Bill]

Here's my pond:



HTH

[jamescodriver]

Work has stopped pretty much so tome in the garden is possible. Ew gate made from an old gate, mowing, clearing old plants in the front garden 5 barrows to get one bed flat enough to put some old slabs down to make a bun store..

Need to tackle patio of shame soon as well..

For Harry Flashman - Hugh Fearnley W did a thing with foxes where he put human hair in tights and put it around his chickens coup, the smell of humans scared them off apparently

[Swervin_Mervin]

Or go take a piss over your borders. I was going to today but thought it might not set the best example in front of the 4yo...

[Hub]

With two young kids and trying to work from home I haven't had any opportunity to work on sorting the garden, but I have a stack of jobs I'm itching to do and perversely no time during the day to do them!

Not sure what I'll do with the garden waste anyway as they've suspended the green waste collections and the tip is closed!

[8-P]

I've noticed a lot of online garden retailers have now stopped taking orders because they cant cope with demand so if you are looking to do planting this could prove difficult too now

So all I have is - an old sunflower head, might be seed worthy, hard to tell. Some allium seeds I found in the shed, some sweetcorn seeds(hardly attractive!) and about 6 or 7 cuttings I took last year. I have few plants I can divide - worth looking into this right now as its still ok to do so if you want to fill out some borders.

[EJH]

Despite having a much smaller garden, I have also been looking to tidy mine up; I'm at home and have little else to do (aside from work - but I need some escape from that!).

I need to change the trellis panels on the walls of my garden as it's all rather decrepit (albeit the mountings to which they attach and which are attached tol the walls) are all in ride good health. Predictably, the panels I need all seem to be (odd) imperial widths, being:

86.5cm (34 inches)
76cm (30 inches) and
38cm (15 inches)

I can find online suppliers that will do metric panels and some that do imperial but I haven't seen anyone that does the (slightly strange) widths that I'm looking for; I was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

[PositronicRay]

EJH said:

Despite having a much smaller garden, I have also been looking to tidy mine up; I'm at home and have little else to do (aside from work - but I need some escape from that!).

I need to change the trellis panels on the walls of my garden as it's all rather decrepit (albeit the mountings to which they attach and which are attached tol the walls) are all in ride good health. Predictably, the panels I need all seem to be (odd) imperial widths, being:

86.5cm (34 inches)
76cm (30 inches) and
38cm (15 inches)

I can find online suppliers that will do metric panels and some that do imperial but I haven't seen anyone that does the (slightly strange) widths that I'm looking for; I was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

Buy oversize ones and trim to fit

[Tony Angelino]

Well I'm going to attempt to turn these into a raised bed whilst off. The task is made slightly more difficult as the muck needs shifting through the house (no access to my garden other than through) down the bottom of the garden down 2 flights of steps..... Due to lack of availability delivery had to be made on a tipper wagon and not a hiab.

Edited by Tony Angelino on Saturday 28th March 00:02