Anyone else left it a little late to tame their gardens this year?
After helping a friend clear hers today, I was inspired, so came home and made a start on my own.
Have left some patches of lonf grass as the wildlife a d dogs all like it.
Run out of strimmer cord for now. But a good start. ( I think)
Spent about 5 hours doing gardening this afternoon, half of it on my neighbours’. Feels good
Probably spent about the same amount of time between the two gardens. Filled a Maxi Hippo Bag in the process. Phew.
Time to relax tomorrow, unless my plans go pear-shaped, then it’s off for a ride instead.
supposed to be great weather tomorrow so a bit of grass cutting and a BBQ I think (oh, and a 12 mile walk in the morning)
Nice healthy walk there mate. Enjoy that!
I shall - need to get my miles in … hoping to do it in 3 hours (and a bit). Working on fitness for an event (more news soon) but 15 minutes a mile over 10+ miles is my goal and I’ve managed it so far.
Garden envy! Looks wonderful.
It was a LOT of work for a few years but now it mostly looks after itself. I’m a great believer in planting lots of perennials that come back every year. Mostly these days I just weed, prune and cut the grass.
Lovely and controlled
It seems that we’ve been doing therapy all along … or maybe it only works when it is volunteering rather than the chore of your own garden? Good news for the ‘guerilla gardeners’ amongst us.
In any case, we should all get gardening
My hay-fever really didn’t appreciate my efforts very much at all, but it felt good at the time.
actually, to be fair, I’ve been affected by a terrible skin reaction to something in her garden (won’t show you pictures) - I’m not sure what was responsible, but it fades after 2-3 days and I feel like I need to finish the job, but … ouch!
I guess the mental health / physical exercise benefit outweighs the pain for me too, for the moment
Sounds nasty.
I was given a reprieve from gardening by the strimmer running out of line. That is my excuse and I am sticking with it.
Well, one mystery solved (mothers are great resources for gardening queries)
Apparently I’ve been handling a poisonous plant without realising and it is the main candidate for my skin reaction. Posting it here for the general education of SE23.LIFERS
If you see a plant that first looks a bit like a lily, then grows a long stem with red or orange berries on the end … don’t touch it and do not eat it!
This is what they look like right now (my pictures)
Cheers for that! Good to know.
I got that growing in my front garden too and no idea where it came from, nice plant but won’t touch it now😃
