Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

I think I've gardened enough for today. Removed weeds and trimmed bushes for 1,5 hours. I'm totally broken now.

At least my front garden is starting to look more presentable. Some of those weeds were starting to grow taller than I am. 😳

It was great gardening weather, and the front garden is in the shadow. Still very sweaty work though. And, of course, very dirty. Literally so. 😋
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Bwoah, it is pretty difficult to prune the butterfly bushes when they're twice as tall as you. 😬
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I absolutely love looking at the butterfly bushes in my garden and seeing all those butterflies soaking up some sweet sweet nectar up close. 🦋
There are a bunch of bees too but I generally try not to get too close to them. 😅
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Went on a late-night gardening spree until it got too dark. The temperature was lovely. I think I need garden lamps.
The bin's now full enough for tomorrow's pickup. :)
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Finally after all those years I'm making use of one of those little greenhouse boxes I have.

My mother got this nice leafy plant called 'Kindje op moeders schoot' (Tolmiea menziesii), which in English has been nicknamed 'piggyback plant' because new leaves are growing on top of old leaves.

You can cut off the larger leaves and replant them. I'm going to try to make them root so I can put them in my garden and hope they can spread there. Should be great to cover the soil in the shadow-rich areas which are kinda bare right now.

At any rate, it's a very fun-looking plant.
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Anyone able to help me out here with identifying this bug? I can't spend 10 minutes in my garden without having at least one waltzing over me. They're annoying just because there are so many of them! They're like, say, 5mm tall or so, not huge. The pic should show that clearly unless you really believe that those fingers belong to a giant. Location is in the Netherlands.
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Totally broken now. Day 2 of trimming the big shrubs and tree. Not 100% done yet but the bin is almost full, so that's for the coming days to top it up until pickup day.
Dad also came along with his chainsaw-on-a-stick to help me out with the high up branches.
The shrubbery and tree look better now. I also found out that the murderous tall needles on the tree are actually very capable of penetrating the soles of my boots. Ow.
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Another 2 hours of gardening done. The front garden is at least very much cleansed up. I still need to trim the butterfly bush someday, but that's for another time (I'm aware that it's kinda late).

And my back's also pretty broken now, so that's not going to be doing anything for the rest of today. And tomorrow I'll take it calmly too I think. It was a bit chilly today, I had to wear my raincoat against the wind. Tomorrow won't be much warmer either.
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Great weather today. Sunny at first which was a tad too warm, but got cloudy soon after so it was great for gardening! The warmth is still lingering around.

Will take a hot bath soonish for a nice soak. That's a lot of plants trimmed today.
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The organic trash bin got replaced this morning for a new one twice its size. 😀 Initially I wanted to fill it up tomorrow, but because of today's decent weather I decided to do it this afternoon already. So I've spent most of the afternoon filling it up to the brim.

At first I thought I would clear out half the trash pile that I already had in my backyard, but this container could take way more than I expected. I've actually completely cleared the pile now!

I know I'm going to pay for this dearly tomorrow (and now a bit already) with a lot of soreness. 😬 Fortunately I have no plans for tomorrow, so I can perfectly wallow in my misery in peace. 😋

Just took a bath because I felt all icky again. But at least the job is done!
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I went snailhunting this morning. There are way too many snails and slugs. 😒

I wish them the most gruesome death for trying to kill my garden.
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As if I couldn't be drenched any more.. I'm totally soaked now, lol. But I'm done #Gardening for today. :P The front garden got a bigtime cleanup. It's too hot to continue, but I'm satisfied.

I swept only half the garden so far and I'm already drenched in sweat...

And I purposefully started working in the garden this morning because it'll be impossible to do so in about 1-2 hours. :P
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Heatwave incoming. :P The coming days will be a week full of 30+C temperatures.

I went and mucked around in the garden for over 2 hours today and finally, -finally-, broke up those 5 or 6 bags of soil that I had stacked up in the corner of the garden terrace for like.. uh.. 5 years?

If you want to know what an ant hotel looks like.. yeah, do the same like me and have a few bags of soil stacked up outside in the open for like forever... -.-

Anyway! I moved all of that to the part of the garden where I cleared the dead foliage and will evenly spread out the soil another time as it's way too hot now. At least the terrace's cleaned up.

I'd also better take a shower soon.. I still feel those damn ants crawling all over me.
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I like it that the leaves from the grapevine can be this big, I just love gigantic leaves. Might've gotten that little bug from my granny as she used to have a jungle in her house.
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So, I have gardened something fierce for over an hour, removing lots and lots of weeds in my front garden. There were a couple which were starting to grow taller than I am... so yeah, it was pretty much time for me to remove them. ;)

It's good enough for today, getting a bit too hot now and I don't fancy getting sick again. It's also almost time to close all doors and windows to keep the heat out.
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I really like this gardening tool. It's basically pruning shears on a telescopic handle, which you can cut with by pulling on that rope. I can cut branches 2 meter above my head with this toy. Might need one of 3 or 4 meter in the future, because the tree's a bit higher than I can reach currently.

But at least I've managed to trim off a lot of branches which were sticking out of the tree haphazardly. I'm also going to take a well-deserved shower because it's a lot hotter than I expected. A bit too hot to work, but I managed to do most of the job in the shadow which was nice.
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I think I'm going to try out those trimming tools today that I borrow from my dad. Time to tame that tree with the murder needles!
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I think ferns are my favorite plants. They're so cool to look at.
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Felt a bit down today so I decided to work in the garden for a while. Now there's a corner in my backyard that's very clean, I guess that makes me feel a little better. :P

I've removed a shitton of tough grassy weeds which was almost everywhere, and then moved a lot of rubbish to the shed. It's nice to see this spot very empty for a change.
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