Gardening Again

The sun is shining again (it's been a very good week for weather so far) and so today I make it my mission to get on and sort out the front garden since it's been lacking much attention since last year.

The main job to do is the weeding, since we've got a rather large flower bed out the front, and whilst it's been planted with plenty of shrubs and creepers there are still plenty of places for the weeds to get through - this year it seems to be particularly popular with chick weed for some reason, which whilst is easy to pull up gets everywhere very easily.

Whilst I'm weeding away (takes me the best part of a couple of hours) I decide that we should really put some edging along the flower bed which follows the line of the front path. The people who used to own the house had put some plastic retainer stuff in (to keep the stones for the path on the path, and the soil from the flower bed in the flower bed) but it's falling apart on a daily basis so really needs to be replaced. So I set about digging a small trench along the border line of both ready to put in some wooden edging, which hopefully will last a bit longer than the plastic stuff.

After I've finished that I then nip to homebase to pick up one roll of the edging I'm hoping to use, it's like half circle posts that are around 12 inches high and all strung together in a line. I also pick up a super strong bolt thing that we need to insert into the wall at the back of the house so that I can put up the washing line again - an unfortunate casualty of the our double glazing exercise. I also spy a rather nice set of hanging solar lights - a trio of star shaped LEDs encased in plastic domes, so I got them too to add a bit more night time colour to the garden.

Back home and it really is quite warm by now so that leaves me finished for the day, it's way to hot to be in the garden really, especially if you're exhurting yourself with jobs to be done and instead I set up the parasol and relax in the shade for a while. It was one of those hours where you wish you had a camera as it seems our resident birds are getting quite cocky when it comes to invading the garden for goodies, I could have got a number of really good shots of them, including 2 sparrows who were having a bitch fight on the garden fence about one thing or another.

Later on when Phil gets home I do dinner - we haven't been shopping in ages so I'm scrapping the barrel on that front hehehe.... and after that Phil tinkers with the camera to get some shots of the moon. Its a very rare occassion we have clear skies and little light pollution, but tonight was one of them and I have to say they came out pretty well, you can even see the crater Tycho and it's ray system quite clearly.

Oh, and it looks like my dad is in for another night at the hospital - it seems the "specialist" forgot to see him yesterday... says it all dunnit.

Posted by Abi on the May 11, 2006 9:03 PM