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I hate raking up leaves Our garden is surrounded by a wood and the leaves are non stop, luckily grandchildren love raking them up for some hot chocolate and marshmallows

Murdering snails.

weeding is my worst job

What's a weed?

I hate weeding

I think getting the weeds from between paving slabs or paviors is an awful job especially if you have an big drive or patio - looks great for a short while but then the weeds appear again

My DH loves cutting hedges with his electric hedge cutter he has a lovely time but because it is too heavy for me to use I have the wonderful???? Job of picking up the bits !

I do not enjoy weeding where you have to pull the offenders out and cannot simply use a hoe on them. I can only do light manual work due to health problems so sometimes have to resort to weedkiller which I am not happy using.

cleaning out all the used plant pots at the end of the year, bit sad but always the next year to look forward to

I don't like any heavy work as I get backache so easily and I don't like anything that involves slugs! But overall quite happy with most things, I like pottering out there, it is a really relaxing thing to do!

removing brambles, we back onto a lane & they come under the frnce from there

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 !

Trying to keep the lawn weed free - never ending

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.

getting rid of all the garden waste

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

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

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

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 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

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

Our garden grows stones. Endless picking up

All of them.

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