Wednesday 2 May 2012

Digging for fitness.

I'm back in the garden, uni work all done. After all that drought business (it's what I wrote my feature on), it's been so wet outside I couldn't do anything for a week; there was literally puddles in the garden. The shed next door doesn't have a gutter, so we get an extra few sq metres of water catchment dumped down by the wall, which turns to mud. No use digging that.

The past couple of days have been decent however, and I finished off the digging. So much work, but worth it.



I found a frog (not a real one) while digging. I'll upload a picture of that soon, it's not washed yet. Also, I think the neighbours beyond the wall might have gotten jealous at how clear our garden is (theirs is/was an absolute jungle of weeds and thorns) - I couldn't find our rake, looked over the the wall, and there it was - they'd been using it to rake up weeds. Even had a ladder leaning up against the wall - obviously climbed over, cheeky bastards. I shall be hiding the rake from now on.

Meanwhile, the flower mixes in the beds are growing:




And most of the indoor plants are flourishing. I think I'll plant them outside soon.



Next step is to get the lawn sown. I went into Putney today to buy grass seed (buy one get one free in Robert Dyas!), so I'm all prepared...just watching the weather forecast as I don't want the seeds to get washed away after planting!

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