Laxidazical
Err, very, very sorry for not posting for a week! Not that anyone noticed of course, you know what they say? "Too much of a good thing is bad for you" complete tosh of course but that's what they say! Although the balcony varnishing is finished all the doors and windows needed doing again as they have been in for two years now so that's what i have been doing. Bored out of my mind with it.. not difficult. small mind.
However during brief lull while waiting for varnish to dry i have been trying to create a small garden out the front of the house. Not easy as this was originally an old farm and they didn't really build or plan anything close to the house for gardening. After cutting back the blackberry bushes that are everywhere it revealed a barbed wire fence so down it came with gay abandon. Next, dig out the roots of the blackberries and have a bonfire to burn them. I liked that bit!
As i was digging over the soil i discovered the remains of an old wall!! cripes, now what to do.. instead of just a bit of soil and muck raked out to plant on i have to rebuild a wall as the ground is a little steep and the soil will fall away if i don't. Typical, doing one simple job always leads to three/four others just to finish the first... but that is the way of it here.
What fun eh? All i wanted to do was plant some tulips, daffodils and snowdrops......
However during brief lull while waiting for varnish to dry i have been trying to create a small garden out the front of the house. Not easy as this was originally an old farm and they didn't really build or plan anything close to the house for gardening. After cutting back the blackberry bushes that are everywhere it revealed a barbed wire fence so down it came with gay abandon. Next, dig out the roots of the blackberries and have a bonfire to burn them. I liked that bit!
As i was digging over the soil i discovered the remains of an old wall!! cripes, now what to do.. instead of just a bit of soil and muck raked out to plant on i have to rebuild a wall as the ground is a little steep and the soil will fall away if i don't. Typical, doing one simple job always leads to three/four others just to finish the first... but that is the way of it here.
What fun eh? All i wanted to do was plant some tulips, daffodils and snowdrops......
posted by the peasant @ 3:04 am
3 Comments:
At 11:30 am,
Ally said…
Pots. Pots are the way forward. Until one forgets to water them, of course.
At 3:05 pm,
R J Adams said…
Pot sounds like a good idea to me.
At 3:18 am,
the peasant said…
ally: Pots are good...watering ho hum err yeh ok...luscious grew a load of tomatoes and some peppers in pots this year. scrummy.
R.J. brings a whole new meaning to potplants eh?
Mandy. wall building should be interesting, can't at the moment as too cold for cement. 9hrs and spending money.. ooo errr oops. what else did you pull down to cost money? electric cables perhaps?
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