What a gorgeous day for me to be off work and in my garden.
Sooo much work to do at this time of the year which included pinning more wire mesh to my fence to encourage my Virginia creeper to creep and pinching off the side shoots of my toms and their morning watering ofc, then off out the front garden which I have to admit is a bit of a wilderness dumping ground compared to my control freak back garden.
A few reasons for this include lack of money/ lack of decent soil / lack of enthusiasm since I only visit the front garden on my way to work
So, first of all I needed to trim all the shrubs that apparently love my rubbish soil, including teucrium fruticans, a variageted conifer, an Eleagnus and my beloved Ceanothus which was mid way past my bedroom window.
It gets a lot of attention when it becomes a sprawling blue cloud in May, but really needed to be hacked back to a sensible size since the winds make it sway unreasonably, even against my house wall. It was pretty heafty work as well, that included bashing OH in the head with a falling branch plus three bags of waste.
I also weeded while I was out there, completing my two mornings of work per annum that I usually do out the front , but then I was thinking about that and I made a new resolution: that it was about time I lavished more effort/time/money on the front garden.
Plant choices will have to stay sensible and shrubby with masochistic tendencies in this south-facing dustbowl but no reason to let it get quite so unruly in the future.
So, bath for me now and later I shall be harvesting the million strawberries I have and serving them with lashings of cream
I really enjoy mowing the lawn! I guess because it only take 25 minutes rather than the three hours it used to take to mow my parents lawns with the same sized mower!! I always wished I had enough money to buy a little ride on mower for them but now fear hearing about my father disappearing off to the next village on it!
OH usually does the lawns here too - but he's covering a colleague's shifts as well as his own as she's off sick and the boss is away on her hols, so I thought I'd shorten his To Do List a bit. I quite like doing it really, at least you can see where you've been and, like ir*ning, it's nice when you've finished
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Mrs G, I've sent a couple more before and after seasonal pics to the Garden Gallery for you.
Weeded carrot and beetroot and planted out purple sprouting broccoli. Going shopping soon.
ta BL, off to have a look...
Afternoon forkers.
What a gorgeous day for me to be off work and in my garden.
Sooo much work to do at this time of the year which included pinning more wire mesh to my fence to encourage my Virginia creeper to creep and pinching off the side shoots of my toms and their morning watering ofc, then off out the front garden which I have to admit is a bit of a wilderness dumping ground compared to my control freak back garden.
A few reasons for this include lack of money/ lack of decent soil / lack of enthusiasm since I only visit the front garden on my way to work
So, first of all I needed to trim all the shrubs that apparently love my rubbish soil, including teucrium fruticans, a variageted conifer, an Eleagnus and my beloved Ceanothus which was mid way past my bedroom window.
It gets a lot of attention when it becomes a sprawling blue cloud in May, but really needed to be hacked back to a sensible size since the winds make it sway unreasonably, even against my house wall. It was pretty heafty work as well, that included bashing OH in the head with a falling branch
plus three bags of waste.
I also weeded while I was out there, completing my two mornings of work per annum that I usually do out the front , but then I was thinking about that and I made a new resolution: that it was about time I lavished more effort/time/money on the front garden.
Plant choices will have to stay sensible and shrubby with masochistic tendencies in this south-facing dustbowl but no reason to let it get quite so unruly in the future.
So, bath for me now and later I shall be harvesting the million strawberries I have and serving them with lashings of cream
Oooh, strawberries and cream, yes please. They would go nicely with a Pimms.
One lawn mowed, thats another hour of my life gone. I really dont enjoy lawn mowing, so the other lawn will have to wait.
Also put on some Verdun! dont normally treat lawn weeds, they usually look better than the lawn, but the creeping buttercups have really taken hold.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I've done one lawn - glass of cold water then the other one to do.
Is anyone else finding that sometimes photos won't enlarge when you click on them?
I clicked on one this morning and it enlarged and then 5 mins later it wouldn't enlarge.
Daniel is getting the techies to look at it, but has asked if anyone else is having the same problem.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
re Dove. Sometimes I get a window of code instead of an enlarged photo
As for mowing lawns..that is safely in my gardening past and I am very glad not to have that on my list of jobs to do ever again
Okay, stones are not as wildlife friendly as lawns, but much like Dove's, I had two areas of weeds masquerading as grass and enough was enough
I really enjoy mowing the lawn! I guess because it only take 25 minutes rather than the three hours it used to take to mow my parents lawns with the same sized mower!! I always wished I had enough money to buy a little ride on mower for them but now fear hearing about my father disappearing off to the next village on it!
I am very happy to say that the lawn isn't my job......jobs for the boys
OH usually does the lawns here too - but he's covering a colleague's shifts as well as his own as she's off sick and the boss is away on her hols, so I thought I'd shorten his To Do List a bit. I quite like doing it really, at least you can see where you've been and, like ir*ning, it's nice when you've finished
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think I'm odd.....I quite like ironing secretly