Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

A garden view from my backdoor. I've made sure that whenever I walk under that tree (which consumes the upper half of this picture), its branches won't touch my head. Been trimming it over time for exactly this and it's great. :)

I'm not overly tall, though, so visitors will still need to duck. And they do want to duck because that tree's filled with murderous tall needles. I call them 'moordnaalden' in Dutch. :P
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I like reverse image search. That way I can figure out what plants I have in my garden. :P
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Another half an hour of work done in the garden, I think that's the last bit of outdoor activity for me today. It's way too hot. :P

This time I tended to my grapevine. If a leaf even has a tiny bit of mold on it, it's taken off. I'm not overly worried about the vine getting bare, it's amazing how fast this plant will regrow its leaves. I prefer nice big green leaves over drab crumpled grey ones.

I should've done this sooner, but the construction of the shed took all my attention. Ah well. The affected leaves are mostly gone now, it's just a matter of maintaining it from now on which should be easier.
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Half an hour of sweeping in the garden and I'm already totally drenched in sweat.

At least the garden's largely clean now. Will tend to my grapevine soon, there are a lot of leaves with mold that I have to remove before it spreads even more. First, time to cool down a little.

Nifty detail: My old patio table fits exactly in the shed. Kinda a makeshift workbench there. :)
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I think I've enjoyed enough outdoors for today. Filled a whole trailer full with large branches and brought it to the 'milieustraat' (a city-funded dump site that recycles, basically). It's a bit too hot to do more work now, we've already been at it for about 2 hours. I'll sweep and clean up my garden tomorrow if it's not too hot.
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That was 3 hours of gardening (read: cutting branches into pieces and putting in the bin) today. Dad'll do the big ones with the chainsaw tomorrow. I'm definitely going to have a rest day tomorrow because I'm pretty sure I'm going to regret this... All my fingers are wrapped in bandaids and I'm going to be oh so sore. :P
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Quite exhausted now. Tore down the busted back fence together with dad. Disassembled it completely and placed the planks and poles neatly in my garden, a lot can be reused.

In the near future I'll have to trim some trees that I can access now from behind. They clearly got used to the fence since a few branches are now drooping badly without that support, heh.
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Today was the first nice weather in a long while. Made use of this moment to sweep my garden, there sure were a shitton of dead leaves and twigs scattered around.

Also used the broken handle of my old shovel to prop up the busted fence with so that the fence isn't that horribly tilted anymore. Let's see how long that construction'll hold, heh.
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My butterfly bush actually has a butterfly on it. Who'd have thought? ;)

This bush is going to be oh so nice next year when it's managed to grow some more, can't wait! What you see in the photo is basically almost all of it, it's not that big yet but it sure has a large flowery branch already!

The other bush next to this one is still trying to recover but I think it might be able to pull through. I've placed a pole next to it to straighten it up a little bit more. I'll see if that works out.
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Whelp... I guess I'll buy new garden equipment tomorrow. :P

Might actually go for a click system gardening tools this time.
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There's one big disadvantage to a relatively cool and wet summer...

Snails. :P
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I've finally gotten around to planting those two butterfly bushes that I removed from the front garden in a cleaning up session. They were soaking in a tub filled with water for a few days, hopefully they'll recover and become nice big bushes.

I've already done this before with another butterfly bush a few months ago and that one seems to be doing well now.
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There be giant worms in my garden, yo!

Don't worry, I picked it up and threw into one of the flower beds. I was sweeping and cleaning up dead leaves and stuff. #Gardening