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Title: Garden equipment time
Post by: Debs. on 04 April 2010, 17:41:11

Spent the day cleaning and servicing the garden equipment at Deb`s towers: Mower, Brushcutter, Leaf-Blower, Garden-Vacuum and Chainsaws.
Oil changes (on the 4 strokers), clean and gap sparkplugs, fit new fuel and air filters, grease- bearings, sharpen blades and all had a general clean-up...... :y

....all ready now, for the growing season; whenever that might begin. :-/

Title: Re: Garden equipment time
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 04 April 2010, 17:45:39

We have a large overgrown leylandii hedge ......if you would be so kind .....Debs.... ::) ::) :-*

Title: Re: Garden equipment time
Post by: Entwood on 04 April 2010, 17:55:17

I always clean and fix mine in the autumn before putting into storage .. so nice and ready for the new season.

Lawns had their second cut of the year today...   :)

Tomorrow is planned for a "greenhouse" day ... needs a good tidy up as I've "pricked out" 980 plants in the last week and it's getting a tad crowded .. :)

Title: Re: Garden equipment time
Post by: TheBoy on 04 April 2010, 18:09:23

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Spent the day cleaning and servicing the garden equipment at Deb`s towers: Mower, Brushcutter, Leaf-Blower, Garden-Vacuum and Chainsaws.
Oil changes (on the 4 strokers), clean and gap sparkplugs, fit new fuel and air filters, grease- bearings, sharpen blades and all had a general clean-up...... :y

....all ready now, for the growing season; whenever that might begin. :-/

i should have done my mower before using it ;D

Title: Re: Garden equipment time
Post by: Debs. on 04 April 2010, 18:20:59

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I always clean and fix mine in the autumn before putting into storage .. so nice and ready for the new season.

Lawns had their second cut of the year today...   :)

Tomorrow is planned for a "greenhouse" day ... needs a good tidy up as I've "pricked out" 980 plants in the last week and it's getting a tad crowded .. :)

Yikes! :o

....`hope you`re done with night-frosts there? :-/

Title: Re: Garden equipment time
Post by: Entwood on 04 April 2010, 18:27:36

Greenhouse has a propane heater to maintain a minimum of 4 C.

Main annoyance is that in the very cold snap we had the old heater failed on me .. heater matrix burned out .. temp dropped to -8 C inside took me 3 days to get a new heater.  I have lost 80 odd fuchsia cuttings ...  :( , just have to wait and see what comes up in the garden .. but I'm not hopeful... most were not hardy varieties .. so looks like I'm going have to start my collection all over .. :(

Title: Re: Garden equipment time
Post by: Debs. on 04 April 2010, 18:46:57

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Greenhouse has a propane heater to maintain a minimum of 4 C.

Main annoyance is that in the very cold snap we had the old heater failed on me .. heater matrix burned out .. temp dropped to -8 C inside took me 3 days to get a new heater.  I have lost 80 odd fuchsia cuttings ...  :( , just have to wait and see what comes up in the garden .. but I'm not hopeful... most were not hardy varieties .. so looks like I'm going have to start my collection all over .. :(

I love Fuchsia, I adore their deep colours and they seem to be the only flowering garden plant that likes living here in the high-mountains (>400 mtrs. ASL)...for, night frosts often continue here for several weeks hence, so growing 'anything' (floral or veg.) is problematic.
I like gardening, but it`s always a battle here, what with the climate (and the rabbits). ;)