How did you spend your Sunday?

I had a productive day in the garden, which has been sadly neglected for the past few months. I did loads of tidying, pruning and maintenance, including restaining the garden bench (the weather really was that good!), adding mulch to the borders and chopping away at some overhanging branches (I am really hoping someone in my family is going to heed my request for a pruning saw for my birthday so I can finish the job).

I also spent part of the weekend feeling very envious of blogger Lottie's new quails, and cracking on with the patchwork quilt that, I am ashamed to say, was meant for my newborn baby to lie on (she is now nine months!).

This evening I have been extremely virtuous, pottering in the garage listening to Alan Bennett on Radio 4 and sharpening, cleaning and oiling my tools. I am even thinking of doing something that's been on my mind for literally years - setting up a bucket filled with sharp sand and a little oil - after a day's work in the garden, the tools are plunged in for a quick clean.

How did you spend your Sunday? Do share in the comments below.

Comments

[Woody Wilbury]

Like you I spent a fair bit of time pottering in the garage, potting up Primulas and thinking about (but not doing) transplanting Gerontiums. They be fine plants, they Gerontiums, ooh arr. Most of my gardening work was yesterday with a big bonfire and, not unconnected, shed tidy.

But I also managed 60 miles on my new scooter on which I'm planning a big motorcycle adventure this summer. More later.

[Simon Kirby]

Hi Jane. I've been digging out the allotment ditches for the last few weeks in my free time so I had a day off Sunday and we went to Bracknell Forest and had a really nice walk. Then I played around with the allotment hedge when I got back home.

Simon

[pete]

i spent it slicing up christmas pudding, otherwise known as starting to dig my overgrown half-an-allotment.

also added to my blog and read bits of gardening advice in the saturday guardian magazine.

[Organic Food Stories]

Helping my dad in the greenhouse, doing the dreaded weeding jobs. So tedious :/

[Natalie El-Barrawi]

Digging in some green manure which has made the 1yr on allotment bed dark and crumbly and a great temptation to sow parsnips.It was that warm here in the East(nr Lincoln)that I wish I had worn some shorts and packed the sunscreen.The best medicine for starting the week.

[Pepette]

The weather was lovely in Glasgow this weekend (still is actually but now I'm stuck at work) so we spent a fair bit of time tidying up the plot and repairing damage caused by the winter bad weather. And built a new compost bin, which was a long overdue job!

[Bob Ewing]

Enduring yet another winter storm here on Canada's east coast.

[Matron]

I dug into my compost heap and brought out a couple of bagfulls to mulch up my rhubarb which is just starting to show above ground. I gave them an extra couple of inches.

[ricki]

Curled up by the fire with a good book...no doubt the last such blissfully indulgent weekend before the outdoor chores begin...in earnest, too, as I just signed up for my first open garden. Horrors!

[Rebsie Fairholm]

Just to make you feel better about your patchwork quilt ... my mother still has a half-knitted stripey jumper which she started working on when she was expecting my brother. He was born in 1964.

[Corinna]

My garden days were Friday afternoon and Saturday, when the weather was superb. It was too cold for digging -- there was still frost in the ground, but it was great weather for pruning. On Sunday it became so gloomy outside that I had no excuse left for putting off any longer the corrections of a heap of English tests....:)