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    Go on...own up, which job do you keep putting off?

    For me, I've managed to 'ignore' the nettles and thistles growing amongst my raspberry canes.
    For 5yrs!

    it's a decent sized patch -about 20ftx 8 ft....

    Tbh...it's more of a nettle patch with a few raspberry canes failing to compete.
    so, today I took the 'Bull by the horns' the 'Thistle by the thorns' and the 'Nettles by the stings' and started ripping the weeds up by the roots.
    I only managed about 1/6th of It...then took to decapitating with clippers about another 1/3.....still loads more to do but at least I've finally made a start!

    no idea if I'll aim to finish it by next weekend, or ignore it again for a few more weeks/months/years!!....but at least I've made a start...and am feeling proud of myself!

    so...surely I can't be the only one.....go on, own up to the jobs you are avidly ignoring so I don't feel so guilty!
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France
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    Lol, I was thinking of growing nettles because I don't mind eating them and I was thinking that they wouldn't get eaten by slugs/snails. But, apparently, they are... so that's the end of that. As for what I'm putting off... fixing my raised bed [a side panel has come off]...need to hurry up and do it though because I can't plant my spuds until I do. Haven't found my gardening groove yet but I'll get there...

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    • #3
      so...surely I can't be the only one.....go on, own up to the jobs you are avidly ignoring so I don't feel so guilty!
      I'm still putting off the same job you have just started *evil laugh* I'm not even sure that your enthusiasm will rub of on me. Too many other jobs to do right now!

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      • #4
        Yep! Same as yours! Nettles growing all through my gooseberries - the roots are so thick they are impossible

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        • #5
          Okay you probably won't believe this but the gardening job I'm always putting off (there are 2 but they are related) is sowing seed and potting on

          Honestly, it's true. I really don't like making time to put seeds into modules and once they germinate I can put off transplanting them for weeks and weeks.
          The whole process of filling pots or modules with compost and putting seeds in and then (yawn) adding a label, it's just so dull. I know others find it a real joy but there's so much more to do. This year I've made a real effort and on the whole am ahead of the game (if you ignore roots which again I failed to sow this weekend) but I also hate the thought of buying plants so it's a necessary bore.
          I've got Grandpa Otts in the front porch who's still in the same modules that I sowed him into on the 10th March next to some other mixed morning glory and some dahlias, I'm rather hoping to plant him into his final resting place this week and so have avoided the dull and time consuming process of re homing en route.

          I suspect that if I had more time, or managed my time better, I'd enjoy it, or at least not dislike it but for whatever reason, sowing and potting on are the things that I really don't enjoy about gardening and put off, as irational as it sounds

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          • #6
            Hedge cutting my big privet hedge. Infact I've done half of it, last bit next weekend. It's hot, itchy, spider filled. And back breaking.
            Blogging at..... www.thecynicalgardener.wordpress.com

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            • #7
              Jet washing the patio, just to much trouble this year
              Potty by name Potty by nature.

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              We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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              • #8
                Every year I leave it too late to stake and tie back flowers and tall veg - not sure why, but it's a job I always put off. Already some aquilegia and a few broad beans have blown over in the wind and the ox-eye daisies and crocosmia are drooping into paths. I keep meaning to get some canes and string out, but never get round to it.

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                • #9
                  Hahahahaha. Is there a word limit on posts? If so, I could exceed it.

                  I am the world's best procrastinator

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                  • #10
                    Sooooo many things, but the biggy is my front bed. It's huge and full of grass, weeds, & ox-eye daisies which spread and take over, smothering everything.

                    I've got some nice plants in there.....somewhere
                    Another happy Nutter...

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                    • #11
                      Making the girls lawn. It is just slow going and back breaking work. Had hoped to get stuck in and done the last couple of weeks but now completely out the window with this ruddy virus. Hopefully I will get back into rather than ignore it again at some point.

                      Have also put off patio cleaning but won't get done till end of summer now.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by vixylix View Post

                        I am the world's best procrastinator
                        I'll have to have a think about that!

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                        • #13
                          Sowing parsnips. I've probably left it too late this year but I hate doing it.

                          And there's a (fairly big) section of my plot I have been ignoring for 5 years. It was ok before since the shed was up the other end and it was almost out of sight. But now the shed's been moved it's right next to the window and I will have to do something about it soon.
                          http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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                          • #14
                            Cutting back the leylandii hedge. Thinking of getting someone in to do it!
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                            • #15
                              I hate washing out all the pots at the end of the season.
                              I know its not necessary but when I am packing them away over the winter I like them to be clean and its worth it when I open up the garden storage box at the beginning of the season and theyre all nice and clean.

                              And when your back stops aching,
                              And your hands begin to harden.
                              You will find yourself a partner,
                              In the glory of the garden.

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