Our Gardens

YvonneBlue said:
I hadn't seen your posts on this thread. What a great job you are doing of tidying up the garden. If you need any grass seed give me a shout, we have loads as Allan grows trays of grass for the piggies.
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heh, you're one of the privileged few who got to see just how bad it was in person, I can't believe how much difference it made.
 
Lorcan said:
I am sadly at the mercy of the weather and Nature clearly has anger management issues right now :bal::))
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You are making great progress, well done you! with those seeds at tracking the birds and bees it will look lovely in the summer 😊
 
Marjie, my right hand neighbour, pulls in all the birds. She's got a couple of feeders and a water bath set up and the smaller garden birds are in and out all the time. Occasionally the collared doves, wood pigeons and magpies come along too (I actually saw a wood pigeon roosting in one of the nearby trees one evening, I thought it was a bag caught on the branch at first XD). She and I both get the squirrels, she gets them with the feeder, and they like to bury things in my garden lol. Other than the squirrels I've only seen the occasional robin and the cat.

It'd just be nice to get the seeds down. Sure I've got a few weeks yet but still.
 
Betsy said:
Hey @Lorcan you been down south and nicked my washing line?
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That's the one I put up the other week! Just took it down what with the wind being as it was, it's not set into the ground. However, since it's now raining, it got folded back up and the cover on it again :( sigh. Next job will be to borrow my neighbour's spade but she's not in at the minute and I know she said I could use her watering can any time I needed and she'd say the same thing about the spade, she hasn't actually said the same thing about the spade yet.
 
This is not what I was going to do today but hey, why not. Most of the tarp is up. There's still some along the fence line but honestly I'm not too worried about it, and I suspect pulling it up might unbalance the fence a bit. The soil below is in a better state than I thought, turns out there's netting in there and pulling that up makes the soil look less like it's been baked in the Sahara. So I'll need to put down less than I feared.

My lovely neighbour lent me her spade. And when she asked if I needed a rake and I said no thank you, she misheard me and got the rake anyway. Can't argue with that.


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🌱Discovered that the orchid that's been coming up in my garden has appeared for this year :luv:
Also managed to find the one that appeared last year for the first time & then I mowed the lawn after it was over & couldn't find it again! Oops! 🌸 IMG_20220410_113123_265~2.webp

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My crown fritillary growing rapidly and the lovely hellebores in one of my beds putting on a fantastic show this year. Border revamp started yesterday so some gaps where old/too big shrubs have been removed ready for some new things to go in!
 

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You know, I'm now grateful I did the left side first. I picked up some sticks and twigs and then used the rake to find leftover thorn root systems, since the rake catches on those and some of the stumps were hard to find. I thought I'd found the worst by the shed, until I found the buried rock that covered a rather well entrenched root network.

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Rock and the hole it was in:

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Could someone remind me why I started on this in the first place? I feel like I'm making it worse sometimes.
 
piggieminder said:
It's looking so much better all ready @Lorcan. It will be lovely when the grass grows and you have piggie food just outside your door!
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I don't actually know if I'll get grass down this year. I want to put it on the right side lawn area but it's in a much worse state than the left side was. Deeper, denser thorn roots alongside the chunky but shallow ones and there's a good few more I haven't even started to dig out. And somehow find a way to keep the squirrels and cats from managing to dig it up as they go about their days.
 
I hope you can get those roots out and plant seed this year it would be so nice for you to look out on a patch of green. When we dug up and reseeded our grass I criss crossed bamboo canes over it which kept the cats off. I do this when I put any seeds down in the veggie patch too as the local cats are convinced if I dig any bit of soil I've given them a new toilet. Our biggest problem was pigeons eating the seed but they can't have eaten it all as it still grew!
 
see I'm less worried about birds because my neighbour has a bird table and a feeding station and they're both kept well stocked. They're not going to end up in my garden with such a feast to be had the other side of the fence. It is just the squirrels and the cats. As for grass seed I'd love to but it's a mess over there and until those roots are out - they've had (apparently) at least 3 years if not longer to get entrenched.

The ones with chunky root growth wig me out even more though. Pulled out one today that was easy 5' in length. They're that sort of grossly floppy that root vegetables get if you leave them too long in the cupboard. :vom: if the weather holds I'll keep working on it but I'm hampered by rain and wet jeans, lol.
 
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