Concentrated on my old hen pen area today - trying to turn it into a small lawn/seating area but I let it get overgrown with interesting weeds and it became a bit dire...
Aim is for it to be a tidy, visitor-worthy part of the garden so I ripped out a load of poppies, ox-eyes and the like from beds and 'lawn'. Turns out my grass seed is largely germination free but I have a whole box so reseeded anyway?
Also tied in a rambling rose that was making me look a bit mad. Might have to look up how to cut it back.
This is an after pic of the weeding in case anyone is wondering
Discovered at 6am our puppy Luna had dug 3 holes in our nice newly planted side border, I went along, sweeping the earth back in the border times X, when I turned round the little b----r had re-dug hole number one, maybe 60 seconds later. We took them up the Downs for an hour and a half run, then went to Homebase, OH put gate and fence across the path to stop her antics. Then he dug up a Choisia that desided to die off, I started on the ivy on the fence and ground benath the shrub, planted a clematis,, which involved digging out a whole barrow load of clay, and bringing round a barrow load of the new top soil, watered in, desided I needed to sit in the sun for a while with a glass of vina (its grapes, I am sure it counts as gardening) were going to the ciinema, but OH has foot problems was in agony,so went and sat down for a rest.
The wine in the sunshine definitely counts as gardening... and one of your 5-a-day Nanny Beach!
Busied myself filling a wheelbarrow with various prunings including some waterlilies which had gone over and need to be removed before they decay in the pond. Have a few battle-scars from trimming the Japanese Rose and a holly - never remember the long-sleeved gloves until it's too late!
It was much cooler today after the storm so I spent most of the afternoon in the garden. Another 3 barrowloads of dead headings, prunings off the New Dawn and the grape vine etc have been added to the tip behind the wall at the end of the garden.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Verdun, silly question probably - do you prune apples and pears while they have fruit on them? Yes, that pond is absolutely gorgeous. Is it always the case that other folks gardens look much nicer than ones own? Mind you other half says next doors garden is cute with a winding path, little nooks and crannies to walk, sit.yet, look closer, mass of weeds, brambles, Yesterday, he was fuming because of all the stuff that is coming over from there, mostly brambles. The front is awful, dandilions, and grasses, seeding over to ours. There was a beautiful climbing rose, in their garden, but big enough, it was over both of our gate pillars, never been pruned,fed, (where as most of my "front" roses, which are in pots are second flush now, it looks pretty much dead, so we will now have a dead thing out there, with the "live" weeds.
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Concentrated on my old hen pen area today - trying to turn it into a small lawn/seating area but I let it get overgrown with interesting weeds and it became a bit dire...
Aim is for it to be a tidy, visitor-worthy part of the garden so I ripped out a load of poppies, ox-eyes and the like from beds and 'lawn'. Turns out my grass seed is largely germination free but I have a whole box so reseeded anyway?
Also tied in a rambling rose that was making me look a bit mad. Might have to look up how to cut it back.
This is an after pic of the weeding in case anyone is wondering
A cider would do me nicely
Verdun, very carefully, these are manmade rocks very large sharp, things!
Discovered at 6am our puppy Luna had dug 3 holes in our nice newly planted side border, I went along, sweeping the earth back in the border times X, when I turned round the little b----r had re-dug hole number one, maybe 60 seconds later. We took them up the Downs for an hour and a half run, then went to Homebase, OH put gate and fence across the path to stop her antics. Then he dug up a Choisia that desided to die off, I started on the ivy on the fence and ground benath the shrub, planted a clematis,, which involved digging out a whole barrow load of clay, and bringing round a barrow load of the new top soil, watered in, desided I needed to sit in the sun for a while with a glass of vina (its grapes, I am sure it counts as gardening) were going to the ciinema, but OH has foot problems was in agony,so went and sat down for a rest.
The wine in the sunshine definitely counts as gardening... and one of your 5-a-day Nanny Beach!
Busied myself filling a wheelbarrow with various prunings including some waterlilies which had gone over and need to be removed before they decay in the pond. Have a few battle-scars from trimming the Japanese Rose and a holly - never remember the long-sleeved gloves until it's too late!
It was much cooler today after the storm so I spent most of the afternoon in the garden. Another 3 barrowloads of dead headings, prunings off the New Dawn and the grape vine etc have been added to the tip behind the wall at the end of the garden.
Verdun, silly question probably - do you prune apples and pears while they have fruit on them? Yes, that pond is absolutely gorgeous. Is it always the case that other folks gardens look much nicer than ones own? Mind you other half says next doors garden is cute with a winding path, little nooks and crannies to walk, sit.yet, look closer, mass of weeds, brambles, Yesterday, he was fuming because of all the stuff that is coming over from there, mostly brambles. The front is awful, dandilions, and grasses, seeding over to ours. There was a beautiful climbing rose, in their garden, but big enough, it was over both of our gate pillars, never been pruned,fed, (where as most of my "front" roses, which are in pots are second flush now, it looks pretty much dead, so we will now have a dead thing out there, with the "live" weeds.