Will put this here as it is part of the garden. I feel relieved and chuffed and grateful. We have a Car port. The roof is clear PVC sheeting which...
Not at present. We are just trying to get them clean enough to use/
The area next to the Car port was full of shrubs overgrown with bindweed, Lysimachia Firecracker and Euphorbia. So over the last few days I have...
Working on the third one at present.
I have not been idle this last week or so. This was a very dead stump with various self sown tree seedlings in and around it. There was also a...
This is what I have been working on for the last two days. Eventually it will be either a small Crevice garden or just a gravel bed with 6 inches...
Son in law and grandsons helped move the seat into the right position for it. [ATTACH]
@Gail. Nothing gets done in this garden without my wife's say so. We are very fortunate in that we rarely disagree about gardening matters....
They are basically a kind of Primrose. Perennials, yes and tough ones too. They are often grown as indoor plants, but that is only really needed...
We have done a bit of planting [img] The Auricula path [img] Bed along side the path [img] The Auriculas [img] One side planted [img] The...
We are at the removing stuff stage still so not a lot of construction or new things to see. We did manage today with the help of our son in law...
Just found that the gloves I use for Nettle pulling are two right hand ones. I must have thrown away the left when we packed up to move.
Only about 600 0r so, mostly seedling Auriculas. Today's work on the Stump bed. [img] First line of rocks. [img] Rocks buried. [img] Second...
We have been watching the light on that bed before deciding how best to proceed. There were 17 large rocks on it, so I will use them to create...
Tried some of the Boss's hand cream, yesterday. Cien from Lidl I think. Instant reduction of roughness. Better than anything I have tried before....
Nettles are the worst thing with the gloves with knotted style backs and leatherish fronts. I use the kind of rubberised gloves which Refuse...
Yes and yes. Surgical ones for potting compost and cheap gardening ones for general work. Otherwise my hands get very dry and cracked, even with...
Not birthday, wish it was, Golden Wedding.
50 years today!
Spent the last few days clearing out one bed in particular. It had a huge tree stump in the middle of it and roots all over. There were some very...
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