I'm actually quite good at tidying, but I'm better at making messes
Yesterday I started clearing part of the (very large) area covered by our old, lovely rhodo that we cut to the ground last year. (yes it took that long)
It didn't look too bad at first. At the end I had a big pile of brambles for burning, (fat chance, it started raining as I was finishing!), ground pitted with holes and another heap of chunks of rhodo with roots attached. Hoping they will dry so the soil will all fall off wihout me having to do anything......effortful
In a large garden clearing anything always seems to end up with more mess than you began with; lots of piles of stuff to be dealt with somehow, shredded, burnt, composted, or chucked not composted, like ground elder, couch and nettle roots.
As taking them to the tip (Sorry, Council waste recycling facility) (tip for short!) means loading the car and driving to the other side of town and humping them into the skip, I have developed a simpler system and now put these into used animal feed sacks (saves me having to take those to the er.........tip too) I then stack them in a quiet, dark & shady out of the way corner and forget about them (really easy!) and a year or so later the bags are fulll of nice crumbly soil, no roots, to use wherever.
Soooo.... (Hazel) BCD you're not hoarding, you're composting! Cunning plan. My neighbour/mad old bat (birds of a feather and all that) says she's not untidy....she's doing stuff! I love her...she's bonkers!
B3 I hadn't thought of dayglo but as a witless beginner in my very first garden I bought my first pair of secateurs in navy....my favourite colour. Needless to say the next pair I bought shortly thereafter was white!!!
I have a theory. RB is hoping to open her garden in the NGS and she's waiting for the inspectors to come. There's not so much as a speck of dust out of place!!!! HA!
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I'm actually quite good at tidying
, but I'm better at making messes
Yesterday I started clearing part of the (very large) area covered by our old, lovely rhodo that we cut to the ground last year. (yes it took that long
)
It didn't look too bad at first. At the end I had a big pile of brambles for burning, (fat chance, it started raining as I was finishing!), ground pitted with holes and another heap of chunks of rhodo with roots attached. Hoping they will dry so the soil will all fall off wihout me having to do anything......effortful
In a large garden clearing anything always seems to end up with more mess than you began with; lots of piles of stuff to be dealt with somehow, shredded, burnt, composted, or chucked not composted, like ground elder, couch and nettle roots.
As taking them to the tip (Sorry, Council waste recycling facility) (tip for short!) means loading the car and driving to the other side of town and humping them into the skip, I have developed a simpler system and now put these into used animal feed sacks (saves me having to take those to the er.........tip too) I then stack them in a quiet, dark & shady out of the way corner and forget about them (really easy!) and a year or so later the bags are fulll of nice crumbly soil, no roots, to use wherever.
Soooo.... (Hazel) BCD you're not hoarding, you're composting! Cunning plan. My neighbour/mad old bat (birds of a feather and all that) says she's not untidy....she's doing stuff! I love her...she's bonkers!
B3 I hadn't thought of dayglo but as a witless beginner in my very first garden I bought my first pair of secateurs in navy....my favourite colour. Needless to say the next pair I bought shortly thereafter was white!!!
I didn't realise the Navy sold secateurs PP
Too late RB!!! I'm off!
Did someone mention bunkbeds?
I shall refer you to page 5. the last photo in my set posted at 9:29am.
You can clearly see half of a set propped up on my conservatory wall, behind the plant pots.
Get yourself down to specsavers Runny
Attagirl Kitty! Standards must be maintained!!!
Surprised you all missed it.
I'm quite the master of disguise.
It's like all good art....you see something new everytime.