Just emptied lastly years pots. Might go to the garden centre tomorrow.
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To contribute more sensibly, I desperately need to mow the lawn and tidy borders. My garden is a sodden waterlogged mess and any attempt to mow the lawn will end in tears. Really need a week or two of dry weather.
Too early to make up your pots without a greenhouse unless you are planting oants ir violas which is pointless at this time of the year ..
Needed to move them all. Getting some work done so needed shifting down the bottom end out of the way.
Looking tidier. Need it to warm up and dry out
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I'm finding gardening an enjoyable hobby now aged 45. It used to feel like a total chore.
Took over a small patch of overgrown green belt behind our garden a couple of years ago, not that we really wanted to but it was up for sale so we had to move to secure it for ourselves really, others were sniffing at it. Mrs has always kept the original garden nice with me simply on mower and hedge duties but this new plot has challenged me. Luckily we managed to incorporate the fencing it off side of things as part of the deal so a good few bob saved there.
What to do next? I cut a slot in the tall hedge that had seperated the garden from the field and painstagingly created an arch to access the plot, cheap and cheerful but a pain to get right.
It was then I realised the cheap and cheerful tools I'd been using for years were simply no good to tackle the new plot, wouldn't touch it really. Asked a few gardeners to clear it and get it nice but the sucking in through the teeth wore me down. When we finally got a price it was eye watering so took the plunge and put the saved money from the fence and ground clearing work in to good proper tools and got stuck in. With the right gear it became far less daunting. So a couple of years on it's been cleared and after taking advice from various green fingered people we have just continually mowed the rough and ready terraine and it has reverted to decent green grass with 95% of the huge brambles and weeds now a thing of the past. Still rough and ready but that's how we want it, being greenbelt there's little much we can do with it anyway. Told I could stick a storage shed down there for the tools and that's that. It's just about ready for its first cut of the season now but still a bit too wet.
I'd like to "scrape" some patches this year and introduce some wild flowers for the wildlife but I'm told it's nowhere as simple as I may think, so trawling the web for ideas on how to do it......also looking for other ideas of what to plant. As I say not flash at all, just a little piece of privacy for nature to do its bit. Struggling for ideas at present. Oh bought a mini rotovator/Tiller to turn a veg patch over, jeez what a little brute. Best bit of kit I've ever bought.....far better results than I managed with a spade lol
What to do next? I cut a slot in the tall hedge that had seperated the garden from the field and painstagingly created an arch to access the plot, cheap and cheerful but a pain to get right.
It was then I realised the cheap and cheerful tools I'd been using for years were simply no good to tackle the new plot, wouldn't touch it really. Asked a few gardeners to clear it and get it nice but the sucking in through the teeth wore me down. When we finally got a price it was eye watering so took the plunge and put the saved money from the fence and ground clearing work in to good proper tools and got stuck in. With the right gear it became far less daunting. So a couple of years on it's been cleared and after taking advice from various green fingered people we have just continually mowed the rough and ready terraine and it has reverted to decent green grass with 95% of the huge brambles and weeds now a thing of the past. Still rough and ready but that's how we want it, being greenbelt there's little much we can do with it anyway. Told I could stick a storage shed down there for the tools and that's that. It's just about ready for its first cut of the season now but still a bit too wet.
I'd like to "scrape" some patches this year and introduce some wild flowers for the wildlife but I'm told it's nowhere as simple as I may think, so trawling the web for ideas on how to do it......also looking for other ideas of what to plant. As I say not flash at all, just a little piece of privacy for nature to do its bit. Struggling for ideas at present. Oh bought a mini rotovator/Tiller to turn a veg patch over, jeez what a little brute. Best bit of kit I've ever bought.....far better results than I managed with a spade lol
Wow nice. Any chance of a small pond ? My neighbour dug one out in Lockdown and it is in great shape now, loads of frogs, dragon and damselflies and the bats form across the road love darting across it
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If you're going to do a wild flower garden this handy little tool will tell you what to plant that will work best from a pollinators POV. Just need a couple of inputs from you and it'll generate a design plan for you.
Hire a rotovator,,,,
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Then again, 6 months of solid drizzle and it can turn to swamp with zero effort. That's a big win for me.
Lived her for 5 years and this winter has turned into something else. So much rain. Makes me chuckle, because last year there was concern a dry autumn and winter would mean drought.
Should be no problem this year. Yet I bet after 3 days of consecutive sunshine Severn Trent will be sending fake-chummy in it together emails requesting I conserve water. Bah.
Love the idea of a pond mate and thanks, but I think it just may breach planning to build one on the green belt. There is actually a bit of a sink hole in one corner that's like a little pond at the moment though.
Brilliant that mate, looking at it now. Much appreciatedCreate my Garden - Pollinator Pathmaker
Design and plant gardens for endangered bees, butterflies and other pollinators using the algorithmic tool - an artwork by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.pollinator.art
If you're going to do a wild flower garden this handy little tool will tell you what to plant that will work best from a pollinators POV. Just need a couple of inputs from you and it'll generate a design plan for you.
Hiya Joey, we hired one of those big rotovators a couple of years back. A Camon I think it was called, nightmare of a thing to get downn all the steps with it to the garden. Bloody house is in a steep hill. Funny thing is this little mini tiller does just as good a job albeit it hasn't got the cutting width the big fella had
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