Little tasks you enjoy in the garden and little ones you don’t...

[GolightlyMrsGolightly]

I’ve just spent 10 minutes deadheading, quietly enjoyed it. Have a whole load of seeds to sow and just can’t get motivated.

Need to find the labels, waterproof pen, jiffy plug planters, nee£ to clear some space to put the seeds....finding it hard.

I enjoy deadheading and picking fruit and veg but hate pulling out the endless endless rosebay willow herb weeds, and trying to eliminate a stupid tiny creeping thing which breaks off at the root every time.

Love weeding, because you get to look at things closely and sometimes find new plants. And you can do it sitting down.

Anything else I find is fine in small doses - potting up 5 seedlings, fine, potting up 100 not so much.

Love deadheading and mowing.
Don't like edging!

I enjoy everything except cutting the grass.

There's not anything I mind doing ... if I'm in the mood for it. I can happily spend hours clearing and digging, curing grass, trimming the edges etc but what I hate is having to do something for a reason, e.g. it's the only dry day, we're going away etc. The job I'm putting off atm is planting out some autumn bedding, I just can't get motivated so hopefully they'll survive where they are for a while.

Curing grass? That should be interesting 😂

I like pruning, deadheading, weeding, picking, also sowing seeds in the greenhouse and potting on. I don't like planting out for some reason. I just find the whole process awkward and I often find myself rushing and doing it on a hot day rather than at leisure.

Neighbouring gardens each side mean I spend a lot of time trying to get rid of brambles and bindweed. I hate it, it's never ending.

Watering my collection of planted pots can be a bit tiring as I do have a lot of them and usually takes me 45mins at least.

I love deadheading and planting anything new i buy, I even don't mind mowing the lawn.

I find watering really boring. DS has largely taken over lawn mowing now

I don't like hedge trimming. But I don't want anyone else to do it as I'm more careful about getting rid of the prickly trimmings. And I'm better at sneakily reducing the height, and reducing the thickness mys side.

I love dead heading but loathe hedge trimming; or perhaps more accurately I loathe picking up all the bits of trimmed hedge from the lawn, it always seems to take an age...

I REALLY hate pricking out. I spend a fortune on plug plants for the allotment for this very reason.

I enjoy seed sowing but I loathe ( glad I'm not alone on this) watering.
I'm either endlessly lugging watering cans up and down steps or manhandling the hosepipe which kinks, knots, gets caught or damages plants as I go.

Pricking out. It's just so bloody tedious.

Raking the leaves up. We have loads of trees and Oct-Dec is just bloody endless raking, leaf blowing and collecting.

Watering. It takes a good 45 minutes each time, and I always start off the growing season by watering well. And then I get bored and tired, and it gets hotter, so the plants need more water, and then I just feel guilty.

We have a gardener once a week and she is always telling me that I need to water more in peak season as the garden is fairly newly planted and gets a lot of sun.

I am always very happy to dead head though.

Pruning, planting, general tidying up all fine.

DH mows the grass.

I don’t mind weeding either. Unless it is digging up the horrid perennial weed that we have - green alkanet. Thankfully it is less prevalent than it was, but it is still a pain.

Watering, I bought an extendable hose, www.hozelock.com/product/superhoze/, game changer. Far less linkage, no tedious rolling it up, much less space to store.