During #MakeMayCount, I need to embrace activities that happen beyond the garden and value them as productive time. Yesterday I spent several hours in the morning doing some computer gardening but found myself getting frustrated at being indoors because I had to do some gardening to make it count. But what I was doing was the kind of things that pay me so I am … Continue reading Making more work for myself.
I may have lied at the start of the Make May Count project. Well maybe not lie exactly, just stretched the truth when I said, “the garden is looking tidy and in control”. I had dark areas of shame. Mostly in the Friday sector. It is nowhere near as well tended as the Monday sector. I just seem to lose steam by Friday and because … Continue reading Slight confession
It has been well over a week since I felt ‘normal’. Actually, I never feel normal, let me rephrase that. It has been well over a week since I felt well. This cold has really taken its toll on me. To start with I was resting to recover and did things I never do, like stay in bed all day and intermittently sleeping between watching … Continue reading Getting better
It seems like forever since I have been in the garden. Last week I was at the flower show which was exciting and inspiring, and I loved every moment. This week we had a bereavement in the family and while it was a blessed relief from suffering it was still a very sad and sombre week. And the garden waited on the side line for … Continue reading Back in the garden
This is the absolute best kind of weeding there is. After a period of sustained torrential rain the soil becomes so moist deep down that even the nastiest weed like dock weed slips right out of the ground with the entire tap root attached. This is my bright side to a few days of horrible stormy weather. It was probably the worst storm we have … Continue reading Storm weeding
It has been an interesting week. It hasn’t rained for a start. Well not much. These days rain doesn’t count unless it is bucketing down. And Sunday doesn’t count as this week, because if it did then I would have to say we had yet more torrential rain and we ended up with surface water across the lawn and paths again. So I’m happy to … Continue reading It’s slowly drying out
Finally, the rain has stopped for long enough for the soil to dry out enough to begin the laborious task of digging and weeding. This is when I regret having such a large garden, but this feeling soon passes as the garden is transformed from weedy overgrown mess to something respectable. And when I am sitting in my garden with a basket full of goodies … Continue reading Easy weeding
A lot of things are demanding my attention in the garden at the moment as the festive season neglect is slowly coming to an end. I’m torn between doing a systematic overhaul one bed at a time so the garden is back to where it should be in an orderly fashion, or running about tending to the most urgent things first. The problem with this … Continue reading Hot buttered toast with a good blob of Black Currant Jam
I’m knacked. The rain has stopped – for now and the ground, while still a tad squishy underfoot in some places is for the most part dry. So I’ve been out there making the most of it all . I’ve been mowing grass that was probably a tad too long for the mower, but we pushed through – me and my trusty little mower. I’ve … Continue reading Ten Photo Tuesday
There are rumours floating about that this rainy spring weather will continue well into November and possibly beyond and then we are supposed to dive head first into drought inducing conditions. This is not the perfect season I was hoping for, and was well and truly owed! So when you wake up to an empty house, as Hubby the Un-Gardener has gone out for the … Continue reading To heck with the flooding – the sun is shining
