How lovely Sarah. I will be visiting the Isle of Mull in April for the first time for 3 nights. Where on the island are you? Is there anything we shouldn't miss while we're there?good luck with the veg and flowers.
Yippy, first proper bit of gardening yesterday! Bought three bare root raspberry plants from a big box, and while I was putting those in a friend came around with some blackberries that had started to colonize her strawberry bed. Called up another friend and went around to hers to dig up her extra strawberry runners, got the kids to bed and spent an enjoyable dusk planting my strawberries all in a row. It really pleased me how much nicer my three year lasagna bed soil is to her bed soil. I didn't say anything, of course, but it made me feel warm and fuzzy.
Hard graft in the garden again but at least its all coming together now...
attacked a scruffy climber and moved it to more suitable site, attacked a climbing rose that had nothing to climb up and removed it for good, weeded the area and planted new shrub.
The Sun has got his hat on... well he did have for a few hours today and I made the most of it.
Did some work on my grass paths, cutting and improving some bare patches. I'm extending one of them down along a fence and past my fruit cordons and got a start on that.
Rotavated over the veg plot (again). Ordered in a Jumbo bag of compost (home grown not ready for this year). Nice day and plenty of jobs done before the rain forecast for tonight.
bitterly cold again today so sadly beyond me - yesterday was good however, OH got the fruit cage almost straightened up after it's overhead of snow earlier in the year!! Now upright enough to get inside - slightly odd shapes to the upright posts, but that doesn't matter.
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How lovely Sarah. I will be visiting the Isle of Mull in April for the first time for 3 nights. Where on the island are you? Is there anything we shouldn't miss while we're there?good luck with the veg and flowers.
Yippy, first proper bit of gardening yesterday! Bought three bare root raspberry plants from a big box, and while I was putting those in a friend came around with some blackberries that had started to colonize her strawberry bed. Called up another friend and went around to hers to dig up her extra strawberry runners, got the kids to bed and spent an enjoyable dusk planting my strawberries all in a row. It really pleased me how much nicer my three year lasagna bed soil is to her bed soil. I didn't say anything, of course, but it made me feel warm and fuzzy.
Hard graft in the garden again but at least its all coming together now...
attacked a scruffy climber and moved it to more suitable site, attacked a climbing rose that had nothing to climb up and removed it for good
, weeded the area and planted new shrub.
The Sun has got his hat on... well he did have for a few hours today and I made the most of it.
Did some work on my grass paths, cutting and improving some bare patches. I'm extending one of them down along a fence and past my fruit cordons and got a start on that.
Rotavated over the veg plot (again). Ordered in a Jumbo bag of compost (home grown not ready for this year). Nice day and plenty of jobs done before the rain forecast for tonight.
A good few hours today a few more seeds sown Ipomoea- Heavenly Blue and moved some Verbena Bonariensis, and Rosemary plants, more general tidying up.
Supervised OH stripping turf to widen my border, then planted some clematis. No weeds left!
bitterly cold again today so sadly beyond me - yesterday was good however, OH got the fruit cage almost straightened up after it's overhead of snow earlier in the year!! Now upright enough to get inside - slightly odd shapes to the upright posts, but that doesn't matter.
Raked level the border I finished clearing yesterday.
A different view from yesterday photo of earlier in the year...
Now I've got to remove the pyracantha and all its roots
- a job for next week. (On holiday til then).
Then the fun part - redesigning and planting up.
Mowed the lawn for the first time this year