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A really nice end to the day.

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Friday, 10th September 2010

  Hi all,
  Gardening can go in all directions and as always it's not always the case of planting or harvesting but keeping with the work to be done in the correct weather conditions,
  
  Ive been pointing the old stable wall's this week and as this is the building that houses all the machine's and metal stuff it's a place worth keeping up to spec, "But as the walls are over 100 years old and made of rock you can imagen the pointing is a very slow job and you cant help but wonder who built this building in the first place?
  
  As ive been pointing away my thoughts have been on all the jobs that will be needing tobe done in the next few weeks, cleaning the greenhouse and getting the bubble liner up, and all the plants that will be going inside this space to protect them from the winter,
  
  It was this thought ref greenhouse heating that reminded me of the old way of keeping the greenhouse from frost without burning any form of heat,
  
  It was the way the old gardeners would line the inner glass walls of the greenhouse with bales of straw (2 bales high) and this would act as a form of insulation and all the plants needing to go in the unheated greenhouse would be put inside this straw walled structure and the straw bales would give off a heat to protect the plants from jack frost.
  
  The straw was'nt wasted when it had done it's job as in the spring time part of the centre of one or two of these bales would have straw removed
  (big enough to take a clay pot) and the toms would be started off in these pots that would be potted into the straw,
  
  this proved tobe a good frost free solution to keeping the tomato plants warm until they could be removed later when the weather picked up.
  
  Again this straw was'nt wasted as it was good for the compost heap and after it had rotted down along with all the rest of the compost it all was recycled back into the ground.
  
  So as ive said gardening is'nt just about what to sow or to reep, it's having time to think about past idea's and past mistakes and ensuring you dont do them again.

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  Posted by darren p (U8518743) on Tuesday, 14th September 2010

  some hard work, a cup of tea well earned. the sun slanting through the trees warming my back as i go about my business. muddy hands, a dragonfly making 90 degree turns above the pond. worms crawling away through the soil safe from my trowel. seedlings spotted and a contentment that pervades my being ...i know that in a hundred years no-one will care or even know about my efforts today but... we do it anyway. i never want to stop.

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  Posted by Miss-polly (U14402803) on Wednesday, 15th September 2010

  What is it about gardening that gets to you, is it about control or being territorial, is it that it just makes you feel good after a good work out in the garden. I really don't know and sometimes it nice not too think too much about it.
  
  One thing I really love about plants is the thought that they can quite happliy survive without mankind, but lets face it we cannot survive with them.

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Wednesday, 15th September 2010

  I sometimes see little childen playing in the garden, trying to be like dad, growing everything from cars to giant brush handles or sowing seeds one day and then digging them up the next just to see how they are getting on?
  
  Yes this is real gardening being enjoyed by the youngest child, and i say good luck to them and enjoy it while they're to young to know about war and hate.
  
  Then again the single mum who's life has'nt always worked out the way she thought it should, she needs space, a place to think a place tobe alone with her thoughts before the next problem arrives.
  
  Then the retired person who's left a world of experience behind them, who really wants to be able to say "ive made it" It being every days my own to spend how i like,
  
  It could be going to the shops by walking or on my bike, or then the garden and the weeding and feeding of my choice of plant and while im doing this i can remember all those important people who we're above me at work "what was their names?"
  
  Yes a hobby like gardening can be just the place for all ages to play their games.

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