Lovely day here so bit the bullet and scarfied the lawn and gave it a cut. I am always amazed just how much thatch comes out. Filled a wheelie bin plus 3 trugs! I will let it settle and then give it a feed in a few days. I am now sitting outside with the covers off the garden furniture for the first time this year, which has made me see my next job.......giving the table and chairs their annual oil.
Transplanted out onions, leeks and beetroot. Sowed zucchini, butternut squash and pumpkin indoors. Weeded in the polytunnel and sowed some more carrots. The paths in the orchard have been cut at long last.
Yes, our front hedge (native mixed species) has always had a sparse bit and nothing we'd tried before had improved this. So my great idea was to put a 18" high holly seedling I'd been growing on into an old cracked terracotta pot with no base (except for a Jcloth to stop it from falling out), and I tied long handles of tough ribbon to the pot. I wasn't tall enough or strong enough so I got my long-suffering OH to lay on his stomach, face down in the ditch under the hedge and manhandle the suspended pot into the bottom of the ditch. We also dropped a pot of honeysuckle next to it. What a lark! I do hope it works and the holly grows although it will be years before it makes an impact.
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I am now sitting outside with the covers off the garden furniture for the first time this year, which has made me see my next job.......giving the table and chairs their annual oil.
I can feel a twitch coming on 😁
What a lark! I do hope it works and the holly grows although it will be years before it makes an impact.
Very pleased with myself!