What did you do in your garden today?

[kate_grey]

I try to go out to my garden every day, especially when the weather is nice. But I don't always have enough energy to do it, especially after a sleepless night. So I recently decided to do something about it and started taking supplements from Pharmacy B2B. With their help, my sleep has improved and I can enjoy my garden, the nice weather and my good health again.

 

[Sean Regan]

The house whose garden adjoins ours at the far end has changed hands. The was a leylandii hedge hedge between us, I had kept one end topped off and fairly low where they have a shed that backs on to it, and the centre had died where it is under the oak tree, but the other end had grown very tall. The previous people had stopped me from doing anything about it, and it is now 30 or 40 feet tall. I had a word with the new people and they were quite eager to lose it as it shades their green house. I roped of the end tree so it would fall my way and started to cut, but the saw quickly jammed, which surprised me because it was a new blade. When I looked I realised that all branches had been removed on my side, but not on theirs, so there is a lot of weight pulling it that way ; into their greenhouse. I have started taking the branches off and think I will probably take it down in stages, not a hard job, but it means going up and down the ladder quite a bit, which is tiring on my bad leg. Last time they looked at they told me the stent has collapsed and they are going to 'balloon' it to open it up, but at the moment it doesn't take long to get sore. Bit by bit I will get there, I can still cut it down faster than it grows
Had a day off yesterday and we visited a couple of garden centres, nothing that particularly appealed to me, I am looking for a dwarf apple to go with my cherry, but had an excellent cup of coffee at 'Petals' and a pleasant walk in the sun

I can see me trying to do what you attempted to do. I can also 'hear' my wife saying. "Don't do it, you're too old, get a man in."
Believe me. That's good advice when you are getting on in years. But it's hard to take.

 

[Sean Regan]

I try to go out to my garden every day, especially when the weather is nice. But I don't always have enough energy to do it, especially after a sleepless night. So I recently decided to do something about it and started taking supplements from Pharmacy B2B. With their help, my sleep has improved and I can enjoy my garden, the nice weather and my good health again.

As if gardening isn't enough exercise, I've still got my golf. I would be playing three times a week, but have cut back to just Wednesdays. until my wife is better, as I don't like leaving her from 8.0Oam until at least 2.00pm. Although I always take my phone and she has an alarm monitor.
I'm very lucky, being reasonably fit, although I take tablets for diabetes and slightly elevated blood pressure. I'd be very frustrated without golf, as a tour of our garden wouldn't take more than two minutes.
Tomorrow is going to be hot.
But we're used to it. I, my usual playing partners and friends have electric trolleys and more are using buggies these days. The club does hire buggies, but we now have three containers round the back of the clubhouse for members to store their own.
I've never felt the need to have one.
On sunny days, the big golf umbrellas we have act as very useful sunshades, the trolley has a holder for a drink bottle, I will put a second bottle in my bag and it also has a scorecard/ball holder attachment. All advisable because tour golf bags with all the stuff you put in them makes them very heavy. I've some 50 factor sunscreen, so I will be well prepared. You can set the trolley to travel at a comfortable speed, point it in the right direction and just walk alongside it.
Although now 85, I do get slightly annoyed if the group in front are slow. But it often isn't their fault, as it can be a different group further up the course, causing the problem. But it's likely to be a plus four-hour round in the heat.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

In my walk about yesterday, I did more dead heading, still more to do. Today is Food shopping day. Grocery stores in my area give senior discounts.
Have to look at buying a small battery powered hand saw, using the hand clippers for the suckers, some are half the size of arm in width is just too hard on my hand to cut it.

 

[Meadowlark]

... Which do you think is better, walking on a treadmill or nature trail?

Surely intended as a rhetorical question? Beautiful area.

 

[Tundra20]

I have a different kind of yard than most people. I live in a big City away from the country and wilderness. Since I'm handicapped and can't go anywhere, I have to stay put. So I brought the wilderness to me. I made a walking trail and walk on it every day unless it rains. Which do you think is better, walking on a treadmill or nature trail? I spend most of my time outside everyday. No maintenance just walk and set.

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nice i like it enjoying creation is way was meant to be makes u feel good being in that environment

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Walking on mother earth barefoot the best. Playing in soil bare hand the best. Soil has nutrients that is good for the soul. Forest bathing the best.

 

[gary350]

I pulled up 1 small early red onion 7 weeks early wife made tacos for dinner. I feed onions Ammonium Sulfate it gives onions good flavor. Nice thing about having 350 onions we can eat them early. Target harvest day is about June 20 every summer. Look at this onion bed you can't tell 1 onion is missing. Sun is going down time to work on watermelons. My soil test says 0% iron, I threw about 40 lbs. of bent nails all over that garden 3 years ago.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I feed onions Ammonium Sulfate it gives onions good flavor.

I have a friend who is a widower , but cooks himself sensible meals. I gave him some of my smaller onions last year, good for one person meals, he said "They made me cry, I haven't had an onion do that to me in years!". Commercially grown onions are not the same.

 

[Tundra20]

I pulled up 1 small early red onion 7 weeks early wife made tacos for dinner. I feed onions Ammonium Sulfate it gives onions good flavor. Nice thing about having 350 onions we can eat them early. Target harvest day is about June 20 every summer. Look at this onion bed you can't tell 1 onion is missing. Sun is going down time to work on watermelons. My soil test says 0% iron, I threw about 40 lbs. of bent nails all over that garden 3 years ago.

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without me going thru all these pages and looking figure i just ask
when did u plant them ?
curious cause of mine here which are doing well mabe little behind yours

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Recently I looked up the nutritional value of onions. Really good for you. Check it out.

 

[gary350]

without me going thru all these pages and looking figure i just ask
when did u plant them ?
curious cause of mine here which are doing well mabe little behind yours

I like to plant onions March 1st about 6 or 7 weeks before our last frost that is usually April 20. We were having crazy 87° weather I hesitated a few days and planted Feb 25. Plants get 21-0-0 fertilizer for 6 weeks to grow green tops with 11 leaves so bulbs have 11 rings on each onion, then switch to 0-20-20 for 6 weeks to grow large bulbs. Harvest day should be about June 20. My soil test shows my soil has too much P&K so onion plants get no 0-20-20 this year.

The 3 attached photos are last summer onions.

 

[oneeye]

I like to plant onions March 1st about 6 or 7 weeks before our last frost that is usually April 20. We were having crazy 87° weather I hesitated a few days and planted Feb 25. Plants get 21-0-0 fertilizer for 6 weeks to grow green tops with 11 leaves so bulbs have 11 rings on each onion, then switch to 0-20-20 for 6 weeks to grow large bulbs. Harvest day should be about June 20. My soil test shows my soil has too much P&K so onion plants get no 0-20-20 this year.

The 3 attached photos are last summer onions.

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Wow!!!