I sowed yet more sweet
peas which I am going to leave in a cold frame. It’s an experiment.
I also spent half an hour
cutting up great big long thorny branches that I had pruned in order to get them
into the council garden waste bin. This was a quiet, contemplative job, and for
most of the duration of it I contemplated whether or not this was a bit of a
waste of time and I could have been doing something more useful instead. (Cut
up thorny branches and avoid tearing clothes, flesh and leaving trails of detritus
in my wake while carrying it thought he house, and then trying to somehow cram
them into the bin without damaging myself even more v. get it done in a
fraction of the time.)
I think actually I was
just avoiding the digging that really needs doing. (Mañana...)
Lay in bed last night planning everything I wanted to do in the garden today. Woke up and feel too tired to do anything. Never mind I've made a good start so it wont hurt.
The grass is going to get a trim this afternoon. I didn't get to it yesterday - I spent all afternoon clearing weeds and digging out spanish bluebells. Green bin is full now - collections are due to start this week (Covid-permitting I suppose, we only got about 8 collections last year).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Over the past 3 weeks, OH and I have hired a skip and cleared out 3 garages worth of useless clutter. (Letting go is sometimes difficult) Tidied out the potting shed. Sowed tomatoes and peppers. (tomatoes just surfaced) Pruned the olive tree. Cut back the grasses. Weeded the gardens. Spaded over the veggie garden. Started the nettle purin. Still sorting out the seeds for veggie and flower gardens - probably the most time consuming job!! A rest is well-deserved today! Bingeing on "Unforgotten" - it's been raining so no guilt feelings! Clearing up the leaves and branches in the wind was a job in itself to say the least!
Just spent best part of 2 hours getting a very large old perennial fuchsia out, using that well known gardening tool the pickaxe. It keeps getting infested with gall mites and was getting worse every year, so it had to go.
Okay a small crabapple tree, but still. And it was basically dead already. And my shoulder aches now.
Moved a firebowl over the stump.
Cleaned ground floor windows.
Finally got the courage trim the grapevines.
And had a glass of white.
It was nice pottering about but after several years trying to get this right I think I’ve had enough of scrappy gardens. This year I’m going to be ruthless....
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Other than that, generally tidied up, swept the paths and stood there staring at all the empty beds feeling very overwhelmed!! 🙈
I sowed yet more sweet peas which I am going to leave in a cold frame. It’s an experiment.
I also spent half an hour cutting up great big long thorny branches that I had pruned in order to get them into the council garden waste bin. This was a quiet, contemplative job, and for most of the duration of it I contemplated whether or not this was a bit of a waste of time and I could have been doing something more useful instead. (Cut up thorny branches and avoid tearing clothes, flesh and leaving trails of detritus in my wake while carrying it thought he house, and then trying to somehow cram them into the bin without damaging myself even more v. get it done in a fraction of the time.)
I think actually I was just avoiding the digging that really needs doing. (Mañana...)
Okay a small crabapple tree, but still. And it was basically dead already. And my shoulder aches now.
Moved a firebowl over the stump.
Cleaned ground floor windows.
Finally got the courage trim the grapevines.
And had a glass of white.
It was nice pottering about but after several years trying to get this right I think I’ve had enough of scrappy gardens. This year I’m going to be ruthless....