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Most hated job in the garden...

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  • 11-06-2010 10:32pm
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    glanman
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    Saw this topic in the farming forum and thought of what I was doing today...

    I feel really bad when I have to thin veggies!! Thinned my parsnips, turnips, carrots for the final time today... I know its not a dirty job and is easy but just selectively choosing who lives and dies is a big decision!


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    Chorcai
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    Slugs slugs slugs the can't stand them, can't use slug pellets cause of the birds. So now they get drowned in larger, placed out for the birds. 15 of them last night in the bowl near the hosta and 10 near my runner beans!!! uughh.


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    Dr Galen
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    slug picking or anything to do with them. I can't stand them..........skin crawls, feel sick


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    Grid.
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    Definitely weeding!!.......hate it with a passion!!:rolleyes:


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    glanman
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    Dr Galen wrote: »
    slug picking or anything to do with them. I can't stand them..........skin crawls, feel sick

    try caterpillars that have infested cabbages. The caterpillars and the eggs... smell so bad when you burst them!!


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    moceri
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    Removing the Dog Turds that my neighbour's Dog has left in My Garden.


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    The Sweeper
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    I don't mind maintenance jobs so much. It's either jobs you have to do because you've left them too long (weeding overgrown areas) or major conversion jobs (setting up an entirely new garden bed from scratch, including digging out lawn.)


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    doctor evil
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    Anything to do with bindweed!


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    Dr Galen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,373 ✭✭✭Dr Galen


    still slugs........


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    muckety
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    Agree on the slugs....

    Also - digging docks out of my veggie patch. I don't mind any other weeds, but docks I have a personal grudge against!


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    simonj
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    the thinning of crops is hard to do, hate it


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    skywalker_208
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    weeding with a hoe in between onions!
    takes ages coz u have to be careful not to chop the head off your onions!


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    crosstownk
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    I hate pulling and cutting out the ba$tard brambles that grow over from the school behind me. Those damn brambles are so resilient. It took 4 years to remove them from my garden and now I still have to deal with the overspill :mad:
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