Quick update on Doodle Towers EDITED some pix on now

Gosh you've been busy! Glad you like Jeyes Fluid - its very good at doing what it does, but oh dear I do hate the smell - horrid to not be able to get it off your hands!

You've been a real busy bee Magna - look forward to seeing the pictures :o)

Well if you smell of jeyes fluid OH should be convinced you've been doing housework as i imagine it smells like some sort of disinfectant :-D Just a few squirts of pledge and run the hoover over the dustiest parts ha ha!

Oh boy you have been a busy girl not forgetting to mention mini doodle!
It's rotten here to therefore didn't get out to lift your plants. I will do as soon as. Looking forward to seeing your pictures.
Hope you got your housework done :))

Had power cut there so no house work done, oh dear.... ;)

Maggie glad you got your Jeys but on the smell onyour hands.

Did you not have gloves on .

Or maybe you added too much to water as you only need a drop.

Another horrid day so misty not cold but dreich.

I liked the way you fixed those trellises ... you sound like me. I once fixed a trellis to a post with selotape lol. It lasted for years and I never got round to putting the screws in. The trellis rotted away before the selotape did :D

I was putting 2 capfuls in my mop bucket, and never used gloves :) hands a mess now!!!

LoL!

Magna, your blog really make me smile!!! Gosh you have been so busy and are making really good progress, I cant believe you have never heard of Jeyes Fluid.... it brings back memories of being a child to me, my mother would use it on absolutely everything, every single day, I am sure she would have used it on us too if she could have :)) Your cuttings sound as they are coming along nicely, I wish I knew how to take cuttings, I am supposed to be doing a clematis cutting for my neighbour but I have not got a clue, I think I will just buy him one and pretend :)) If you want any cuttings from me, just say so and I will try for you..... Oh by the way, I love those clematis from Morrisons, I have found with mine that as they are very young the slugs will unfortunately love them so make sure that you give them as much protection as you can.

wow what a change Magna...look forward to watching what you do with it. keep at those cuttings , i lost loads to slugs and alike when i first started and still manage to loose a few now...its the ones that get through that give u the will to carry on...:-)

Thanks everyone, just been up to greenhouse, all looking well up there :) few honeysuckle cuttings not taking bu majority are :) still a long way to go but in surprised how big my little bed at front is now most of the hedge is out! Will be putting pics of back on tomorrow, it's stil awful out there but Rome wasn't built in a day!!! Need a dry week so I can burn all the hedge and elder tree detritus! Tonight is book club and wine night :) back to it tomorrow :)

Wow youve got loads done magna! i havent done anything for a few weeks with the weather-i only feel motivated when its sunny! ive got to go check out morissons it sounds great for plants! desperate for some clematis. is mini me your little girl magna? cant wait til my boys can help-rather than hinder lol. looking forward to your pics :o) x

Yes mini me is my daughter Megan, she is four and a half, I call her mini me as she is my spitting image, and like me loves books and gardens, I'm teaching her plant names at the mo, her gran, my mum in law, who has never had a garden, watches her for me a few days a week when she's not at nursery..... She asks granny to take her walks to see pretty gardens and hits out with, oh grab look at that peony, and that snow in summer etc!!!! There's a pic of her in one of my blogs I think x back to greenhouse tonight, keep the fingers crossed!! I am getting a little bit done each night in between downpours, but I need to keep on top of it as I've got soooo much to get done!!

Aww bless her, sounds like a lovely little girl, alfie likes books but only watering the grass at the moment lol. i wish i had the money to just raid the pound shop-and morissons!! getting frustrated i cant do anything so enjoying watching your progress! :o))

Leigh Leigh will send you some bits when my cuttings take and seedlings are bigger, I use all my "pocket money" on the garden, I work full time and so does OH but every penny still a prisoner!!!! I dont go out much and dont spend much on clothes ryc x Got to go buy compost today, so off to lidl, 1.99 for 40 litre bags!

I am full of admiration for you, Magna! And well done for the drawing pins - it's just the sort of thing I still do! And as Hywel says, it's amazing how long quick-fixes can work. G K Chesterton said - "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly" ! Not that I am suggesting you are doing anything badly, you understand. But it is always worth having a go with whatever is at hand! Your garden will soon be transformed, and you will be able to look at it and say "I did that!"

Ah thanks hun thats lovely, let me know if you want some eyrisimum cuttings soon cus its the time to do it. theres a huge discount warehouse place in bradford where we go, its reyt good, im not allowed to take the bank card in with me like poundland haha! about 2.50 for 70L! no i dont buy clothes either, only from charity shops-i dont do fashion lol. x

Had a right chuckle here over the Jeyes, I use it to clean the drains in my dog area and know how strong it is and also how the smell lingers. You are really getting stuck in and enjoying it as well which is great, your hedge will be all the better for having a big chop, its surprising how much difference it makes and it will soon green up again.
Megan sounds delightful and lets hope she continues to share your passion for the garden as she grows, I think its lovely to see a child growing things, even if it does turn out to be a weed, sunflowers were always a must with my kids and my grandchildren and runnerbeans started off in jamjars with a piece of blotting paper and obviously water, lol.

I still start my runner beans off like that, Lincslass!!