As is traditional on a Bank holiday weekend it was time to get working on the garden. The monsoon conditions of yesterday had softened the soil to workable levels from the solidity of its previous dryness, and today (surprisingly for a BH) the weather was absolutely perfect. Ned dug out the final enormous lump of concrete, and a friend's jack hammer made short work of reducing them all to more manageable proportions. Several trips to the tip will be needed, but soon it'll all be gone!
I took a barrow up the road to a neighbour's smallholding and relieved his fields of some of the molehills, which are the most gorgeous riddled topsoil and have filled in the holes beautifully so that it no longer resembles a poor parody of the Somme. One more barrowload should see the major earthworks completed.
Next job is to install the new fence, and then I'll be able to put in some plants so for a few brief weeks it might look attractive.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Gentian, lupin and tall hollyhocks
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Any plants you stick into that lovely moleified top-soil will love you forever!
Looks like a good spot for some Japanese Knotweed
The title of this blog really made me smile - I went to Jess's class assembly the other day, and the teacher gaily announced that the class would be singing "English Country Garden" - cue sharp intake of breath and nervous looks from 20 guilty parents who had all taught their kids the alternative version (I didn't even KNOW the proper one) and were nervously wondering what they were about to hear...
There are so many alternatives (some much ruder than others) I'm quite surprised there was ever a real one, if you see what I mean.
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