What's your least favourite job?

[binley100]

The one I get paid for.......simples....

[Two_Sheds]

I haven't room to grow EVERYTHING I want to grow .

So volunteer to run a school gardening club: extra space & free child labour (actually don't - they spend all their time squabbling & chucking soil at each other while you have to stay behind an extra hour to get the work all done)

[Florence Fennel]

Ironing - can't understand why I didn't post this first!

[gojiberry]

Clearing the weeds away off the path once they have been pulled up.

Ian

[Two_Sheds]

^^ chuck them into a bucket then, not on the path

[kingkano]

Definitely compost turning. I have daleks (must get rid of them and make some pallet bins I think) and they are a right hassle to turn!

Watering is time consuming but I dont hate it. I love admiriing the plants though and how everything has grown between each watering.

[mrpaulbradley]

I may be dreaming this.... But I may have seen a dalek that was kinda like a tombola. It spun in a vertical manner hence mixing up the compost.
I don't bother with them myself. My heap is a heap.
I have a few pallets round back which I'm optimistically hoping will somehow fuse themselves into a proper bin.
Ah well.
Ps if the tombola dalek has not been invented, and people like it- it's all mine ya hear!
Dragons den here I come!!!

[kingkano]

There definitely is bins like you describe, and various other spinning type ones. Trouble is they cost a bomb like £80 or something). Much more than the tenner I got these for thru the council. One day I'd love one to keep on the go as they supposedly make compost in weeks rather than years lol.

The pallet bin is pretty easy to make. Thing is you want 2 side by side really to keep moving them. But then what would I do with the daleks? Seems a shame to waste them (even freecycling them seems a shame for me lol).

[jacob]

the only job i really don't like is deciding what plants will live and what plants are going to have to go to plant heaven. I spent so long nurturing the damn things and potting them on [ some them only the once thank god] that I casn't bear throwing them on the compost heap.

I was going to say watering or extracting compost from the bins.

But this is the hardest thing -- I've always got sickly plants in tiny pots that I can't bring myself to throw away (what am I going to do with all those chilis -- I've already given a load away?). And I'm terrible at thinning. Who needs one big parsnip when you can have four small ones?

[Mikey]

Mowing the paths around the plot, as I don't have a strimmer, mine broke when I lent it to someone!!, and my mower is electric. So I have to use shears, which takes far too long, and detracts from my lottie time.

Unfortunately it is a necessary evil or the committee start asking you questions!

[chris]

... which is the very reason I'm going to buy a petrol strimmer I started with shears, 30 mins later looked how far I'd gone and thought the strimmer would be a wise investment

[Mikey]

Well that was why I bought one Chris, it was only a cheapo, about £70 for a combined strimmer and brushcutter. It worked fine, although not great, but I lent it to a work colleague and when it came back it was far from road worthy.

Its not been the same since, its a real pain to get started, and the reel is very difficult to turn to release more line. Add the noise which seems completely unappropriate on the lottie, and I've gone back to using the shears, or just pulling it out with my hands.

[chris]

/me makes a mental note not to lend it out to anyone

[Flummery]

I do mine with a push mower. Good for the stomach muscles!

[Glutton4...]

To those above, talking about composters - my Dad has a C*mposTumbler - bladdy expensive when he bought it, but I can confirm they are brilliant; decent compost in half the time.