I can really understand why new gardeners get overwhelmed by what needs to be done in their garden I have only left it to its own devices for a fortnight. It's a tangled mess of weeds, gone over, dried up, dead, overgrown plants. I know the theory: take it easy and do a bit at a time but then I see RBWH foot high grim urbanism already with seed heads. Next door's Jasmine beesianum strangling the roses. And that's not the half of it.....
You know I have 2mentally ill sons. They don't go anywhere,apart from shopping GP, dentist. No:,2 son bought tickets last year for them both to go to London to see a commedian. Last night he rang really upset,he'd gone to Waterloo, brother not there,he rang/messaged 25 times!! Brother had just changed to "Smarty", messages unanswered,so he got the train home, turned out messages took ONE HUNDRED MINUTES to arrive. He was absolutely gutted. All that money,an enormous amount of guts on his part to go all that way on a train alone. I was trying not to cry feeling so awful for him.spent 2hours on the phone talking him down .He had been so looking forward to it.
I can really understand why new gardeners get overwhelmed by what needs to be done in their garden I have only left it to its own devices for a fortnight. It's a tangled mess of weeds, gone over, dried up, dead, overgrown plants. I know the theory: take it easy and do a bit at a time but then I see RBWH foot high grim urbanism already with seed heads. Next door's Jasmine beesianum strangling the roses. And that's not the half of it.....
The in-laws came for a visit last week and spent a fun ten minutes
bemoaning the state of the front of the house. Trying to explain to them
how little free time we have right now seems fairly futile, and they
don't seem interested that our priorities don't stretch to removing
small patches of moss from the drive when we have two businesses to run
and two young kids to look after.
I had two hours planned this afternoon to garden with the kids. The first half-hour was taken up by toilet trips, cleaning curry powder off the youngest one and bribing the oldest one not to tell his mum that his brother got hold of the curry powder, then cleaning the curry powder off everything else. Then I set them up playing with the marble run I've made from old bottles and waste building materials so I could grab as much time weeding and cutting grass as possible. I'm all for wild edges but the middle is getting wild enough that the long grass is making me lose my marbles, literally speaking. We'll be in no-mow August if I'm not careful but the clover has never looked better and I want to keep it until it's done flowering. I managed almost an hour of weeding before the kids got hungry and I had to take them inside for their dinner. The garden looks the same as when I started.
Now I've skipped my own dinner and will have to work late to make up for grabbing a bit of time to try and sort out the driveway a bit to placate the in-laws. Not that they're especially welcome to make a return visit for a while...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I have only left it to its own devices for a fortnight. It's a tangled mess of weeds, gone over, dried up, dead, overgrown plants.
I know the theory: take it easy and do a bit at a time but then I see RBWH foot high grim urbanism already with seed heads. Next door's Jasmine beesianum strangling the roses.
And that's not the half of it.....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.