Sweeping leaves up , have you though about a Garden vac to suck up the leaves ?
much quicker , give you more time for other jobs , only advise is if you suck them over bare soil it sucks up the loose soil and clogged it up , well the one I had did
I try to be environmentally friendly and do not use any power except woman power in the garden. I always remember how much energy is used to make machines such as vacuums. And I try to be as quiet as I can as I know how the sound of machines in neighbours 'gardens can be so disturbing. I rather like gathering up the leaves by hand for leaf mould. It is the actual "doing" of the gardening tasks that i enjoy most so I do not look for shortcuts. Actually if all the tasks do not get done i find nature finds a way to help like breaking down the leaves for me. Tending a garden is not a chore but a choice for me.
Chilly again this morning but dry so, after going to the shops for some milk and bread I will get out in the garden again among the hemerocallis plants. I am just planting the outsides and composting the middle parts as these are quite old plants. They have so much soil with them I think my friend may have to import some topsoil or compost for his garden. My neighbour hopes to get his top layer of blocks laid on his wall today and he has left "windows" for trellis. He plans to render and paint it.but the frost may interfere with that job. It will make a lovely backdrop to my Golden Jubilee Border eventually and they will be able to see my new plantings through the trelliswork. I must do some more weeding in November and plant lots of tulips in it.
Wow Marion you've been busy, can't believe how many plants you've got in your conservatory, are they all for next spring?. I use a rake to gather my leaves and straight in the garden bin, although I won't have half as many as you Marion, we are meant to have sunshine today but all I can see is fog , it's rained buckets all week and is very cold bbbbrrrrr , hey you was right about the banana making my tomatoes go red it really does work
The ripe banana gives off ethylene which ripens the tomatoes - can't help it as I was a research chemist! I have been to the shops and gasped at how red the Virginia creeper and rhus trees are in the neighbours gardens and my small acer in the front garden is a brilliant red.What with the abundant rose hips, cotoneaster and pyracantha berries. not to mention the holly, the theme this autumn seems to be red. I have loads of red phygelius and Red Ribbon and Firecracker polyanthus in flower too. Must get the camera out soon.
Flumpy 1 that is only a quarter of my conservatory and I have the other three quarters to fill up in the next two weeks. A lot of plants are for Mr. Fothergills Nation of gardeners Trials eg the pots of trailing pansies are to go out in the gardenat the end of the month; the perennials just pricked out are to be planted out in the garden in June. I keep the conservatory looking good all through the winter with flowers as it is built on to the back of my long lounge and turns that side of the house into a winter garden. I grow winter salads in it too. If no visitors come for tea this afternoon I will go out in the garden taking photographs.
Looks like your garden will be full next year Marion! Even though it is cold here, we have been lucky with the weather and it has not rained much this weekend. I still have loads of sweet peas which I am cutting-this time last year I had pulled them out as they were all finished. I love having a bunch in a vase in the bedroom-hopefully for a few more weeks yet!
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My conservatory is getting very full.
Sweeping leaves up , have you though about a Garden vac to suck up the leaves ?
much quicker , give you more time for other jobs , only advise is if you suck them over bare soil it sucks up the loose soil and clogged it up , well the one I had did
best of luck with the Gardening
I try to be environmentally friendly and do not use any power except woman power in the garden. I always remember how much energy is used to make machines such as vacuums. And I try to be as quiet as I can as I know how the sound of machines in neighbours 'gardens can be so disturbing. I rather like gathering up the leaves by hand for leaf mould. It is the actual "doing" of the gardening tasks that i enjoy most so I do not look for shortcuts. Actually if all the tasks do not get done i find nature finds a way to help like breaking down the leaves for me. Tending a garden is not a chore but a choice for me.
I understand what you are saying
Best wishes
Chilly again this morning but dry so, after going to the shops for some milk and bread I will get out in the garden again among the hemerocallis plants. I am just planting the outsides and composting the middle parts as these are quite old plants. They have so much soil with them I think my friend may have to import some topsoil or compost for his garden. My neighbour hopes to get his top layer of blocks laid on his wall today and he has left "windows" for trellis. He plans to render and paint it.but the frost may interfere with that job. It will make a lovely backdrop to my Golden Jubilee Border eventually and they will be able to see my new plantings through the trelliswork. I must do some more weeding in November and plant lots of tulips in it.
Wow Marion you've been busy, can't believe how many plants you've got in your conservatory, are they all for next spring?. I use a rake to gather my leaves and straight in the garden bin, although I won't have half as many as you Marion, we are meant to have sunshine today but all I can see is fog
, it's rained buckets all week and is very cold bbbbrrrrr 
, hey you was right about the banana making my tomatoes go red it really does work 
The ripe banana gives off ethylene which ripens the tomatoes - can't help it as I was a research chemist! I have been to the shops and gasped at how red the Virginia creeper and rhus trees are in the neighbours gardens and my small acer in the front garden is a brilliant red.What with the abundant rose hips, cotoneaster and pyracantha berries. not to mention the holly, the theme this autumn seems to be red. I have loads of red phygelius and Red Ribbon and Firecracker polyanthus in flower too. Must get the camera out soon.
Flumpy 1 that is only a quarter of my conservatory and I have the other three quarters to fill up in the next two weeks. A lot of plants are for Mr. Fothergills Nation of gardeners Trials eg the pots of trailing pansies are to go out in the gardenat the end of the month; the perennials just pricked out are to be planted out in the garden in June. I keep the conservatory looking good all through the winter with flowers as it is built on to the back of my long lounge and turns that side of the house into a winter garden. I grow winter salads in it too. If no visitors come for tea this afternoon I will go out in the garden taking photographs.
Looks like your garden will be full next year Marion! Even though it is cold here, we have been lucky with the weather and it has not rained much this weekend. I still have loads of sweet peas which I am cutting-this time last year I had pulled them out as they were all finished. I love having a bunch in a vase in the bedroom-hopefully for a few more weeks yet!
I have been up the garden snapping all things red.