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My top gardening tip not that I am even remotely qualified to give gardening tips is;

To take a photograph (or several) when your garden is in full bloom. That way you can remember what grew where and what it looked like against the rest of the garden. This will enable you to have a bit of a shift about in the Spring if you need to.

My top tip for grandchildren is to always have an old planter or box that you can move to one side in order to have a reliable supply of woodlice and other beetles to study (well maybe that's just my 3)

I love gardening but hate cutting the grass, as it is on a steep slope requiring crampons! On the other hand, the GCs (and I) used to love sliding down it on a 10 metre length of parachute silk. Sadly they are now teenagers and too cool to have fun!

Pruning and disposing of anything with thorns. I've never managed to find a truly thorn-proof pair of gloves.

I have a love/hate relationship with weeding - hate the thought of it but find it quite therapeutic once I get started. Watering the greenhouse and pots though..... I don't know what it is but I hate and detest that job!

Digging is back-breaking in our garden as we live on a hill with thick clay soil (baked hard at the moment). Also, as our garden slopes downwards, I often lose my balance and fall into the flower beds.

I wondered why everyone was describing the jobs they hate most????????? I shall crawl under one of the pots with the woodlice where I belong.

Okay so the job I hate is digging big holes in hard ground. I am almost as useless at it as I am at competitions.

gillybob, you got there with your comp entry in the end!

I don't really HATE any particular job if I am in the mood for it. Pruning when I am cross for instance is very satisfying!
But I suppose it is clearing up after an energetic session of weeding and cutting back.

Sweeping up hedge clippings .

Taking all the garden rubbish which won't fit into the compost bin to the tip and queuing for hours because they have "reorganised" it. So I sit there and wonder exactly what creepy crawlies are crawling out of the bags and into my car.

Dealing with bindweed. The tiniest bit will regrow and I am paranoid about keeping it out of the compost bin.

All of them.

Our garden grows stones. Endless picking up

Clearing up after we've done battle with the hideous leylandii hedges that we inherited. That and endlessly clearing up the leaves in autumn.

I have so many cooking apples I can't keep up with picking them off the floor, I try to get them before they ruin but it is a thankless task , I also hate sweeping leaves from the path as again it's clear on moment and full of them the next

I hate digging my front garden border, an easy task yes, but the neighbourhood cats just love the newly dug soil and yep I have loads of hidden cat poop, you would think I would have learnt over the years but each time it catches me out, usually when I am not wearing gardening gloves Yuck.

I hate pruning the roses as I alwys end up with thorn wounds!

I hate watering the post in a dry spell. Keep saying we'll have less post but running out of space in the beds.

Due to a very bad back last year and a broken shoulder this year, most of my recent gardening has been reduced to the odd dead headening and a bit of light watering whilst watching other people do the hard work, so I can safely say I don't hate any gardening jobs right now! What I'll feel like about the digging, weeding, planting, hacking back and cat poo clearing in the future is anyone's guess.

I hate pruning the pyracantha. I've tried to kill it off but it keeps coming back. I always cut my finger with its throrns

getting rid of all the garden waste

Finding nettles have appeared one day when the day before the area has been sweekey clean of them,then a whole family appear all at once out of now where.

Trying to keep the lawn weed free - never ending

I can only do 30 minutes weeding or so before my back begins to really ache, so I will say weeding. It's a thankless task anyway because they always grow back again !