It'll only take 5 minutes................

[veggiechicken]

A daily challenge, that anyone can set!

A little project in the garden that can be done in 5 minutes. Maybe something you've been meaning to do for ages but forget. Perhaps we can jog each other's memories and join in?

Here's my 5 minute job of the day:-
Take rosemary cuttings (young growth about finger length);
Strip off the leaves on the bottom half
Plonk in a glass of water
Sit back and wait for the roots to grow

This is the start of a rosemary "hedge" around a bed

UPDATE - 30 cuttings in a glass of water and a tub of rosemary leaves to use for cooking! Bonus

[Bren In Pots]

Sow just a pinch of Spring onion seeds in a pot every couple of weeks then you'll never run out of them all season.

[Twynyrodyn]

...... but return 2 hours later looking sheepish!

[Baldy]

I started my rosemary cutting off about 2 weeks ago - they look very cute sitting in their little green french lager bottles (in water not lager).
5 minute job done today was to roll out suppresant plastic on the planned route of a new pathway. Same will need to be done for final path in about 8 days time when I can next get to the plot.

[Nicos]

I'll join in with this thread, once I get back from the UK.
I've lots of little 'jobs' needing doing , but pushed aside by more pressing ones.
It'll do me good to focus
Nice thread idea!VC

[Nicos]

I might just make the most of the next few days making a huuuuge list of little jobs needing doing!

[veggiechicken]

Sow just a pinch of Spring onion seeds in a pot every couple of weeks then you'll never run out of them all season.

This reminded me of another 5 minute job - potting up some Babington leek bulbils - DONE

[JanieB]

Now my neighbour has finished putting up his new fence (and a good job he's made of it for a librarian) and I can have my spade back, I'll dig the encroaching earth off my patio and then I can sit on it without feeling guilty. The patio not the earth.

The spade thing...... He started to dig a hole, put his spade in the ground, pushed it down with his foot, as you do, pulled back and...it snapped. I handed him mine but I've now been without it for over a week and there are jobs I need it for.

[sparrow100]

Potting up oca - done!

[Bigmallly]

Sifted a bucket of Carrot compost...........one more to do.

[Nicos]

I might just make the most of the next few days making a huuuuge list of little jobs needing doing!

Maybe I should make a list for my OH too?

....would I dare?????

Ha!

[Bigmallly]

Maybe I should make a list for my OH too?

....would I dare?????

Ha!

Only if it takes 5 minutes..................

[Mr Bones]

Plant out the rosemary cutting I took last year (and is still in its' pot). Glad this thread reminded me..

[Florence Fennel]

Trouble is I go out to do a five minute job and stay out for hours - very.productive but too much for my aching bones next day

[Bren In Pots]

Me too Flo I soon get distracted when I go in the garden. next thing a couple of hours has passed.

Todays 5 min plan is to dig out a few dandelions out of lawn every morning.