Gardening..

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4802183, member: 259"]Weeding. Weeding. Cutting hedges. Weeding. Cutting grass. And did I forget weeding?[/QUOTE]

That is not hard work, it only becomes work when you get paid for it. Ask Drago or Dirk.

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4802188, member: 259"]I don't ride anywhere where I have to hold a 90cc petrol engine in front of my face.[/QUOTE]

Ear plugs should be worn,must admit despite having 100 yards privet and conifer I prefer an electric cutter. Did own a Stihl but found it heavy on full stretch
As the privet is very wide as well as tall.

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4802194, member: 259"]I'm sure @Drago and @Dirk would be delighted if I invited them to drive a few hundred Kms to cut my hedge![/QUOTE]

Point being is that if you get paid for it then it qualifies as work if not then it is not, I feel it is.

 

[beanzontoast]

I'm in no sense a hobby or interested gardener. As long as I can have the radio on when I'm gardening, I can get into enjoying it. It makes the time pass on the more boring jobs and from a psychological perspective, by associating having a favourite radio programme or two on while doing it, has actually made me look forward to time spent in the garden digging out weeds, watering, painting fences and so on.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

[QUOTE 4802169, member: 259"]I cannot stand cutting hedges. It's filthy, sweaty, noisy and mucky.[/QUOTE]

Like children then...

After grubbing out, hedges are easily the most physical. I have a fantastic 10 foot tripod ladder which gets you up to a nice height for formal 'topped' hedges up to 12 foot. Safe, comfortable and shiny...

 

[screenman]

I must admit
[QUOTE 4802205, member: 259"]I've got a fair bit more than that, and electric got a bit much. You have arms the size of hams at the end of the year, though.[/QUOTE]

I must admit using up 80litres of creocote over the last week or two has been tiresome.

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4802205, member: 259"]I've got a fair bit more than that, and electric got a bit much. You have arms the size of hams at the end of the year, though.[/QUOTE]

Already got arms like that through swimming.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I must admit


I must admit using up 80litres of creocote over the last week or two has been tiresome.

Not the real stuff from the olden days though obviously.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Already got arms like that through swimming.

...through creosote.

 

[screenman]

Not the real stuff from the olden days though obviously.

Certainly not, creocote not creosote.

 

[screenman]

...through creosote.

No custard, or at least that is what it feels like some days.

 

[Cycleops]

I must admit


I must admit using up 80litres of creocote over the last week or two has been tiresome.

Didn't know David Dickinson posted on here.

 

[ayceejay]

So, the message i am receiving is that gardening is hard, boring, dirty work. I feel the same way about chimney sweeping so I pay someone to do it for me it takes him an hour and I pay him $90. I used to be in the horticulture business and $10 an hour for a gardener is considered expensive. Can someone explain this?

 

[iateyoubutler]

I`m tempted to give up the whole gardening thing. I`ve never been "green fingered" but I can keep a garden tidy, and what dies gets pulled up and flung over the fence

But now, the house next door has been rented out to the Jeremy Kyle fraternity and the gardens are just an overgrown wilderness (makes me bloody angry.....lazy bastards), so what`s the point in keeping my own tidy??

 

[Mark1978]

The last 2 weekends we went from this

to this....

And boy am i feeling it now! What you cannot seein this picture is the mass of nettles that i had to pull out, and the nasty giant hogweed that we had to remove very carefully!!