March 31, 2008...12:52 pm
Bordering on Magic
The weather forecast was right! Saturday was awful but Sunday was dry, even sunny! So, after our morning dog walk and lunch, it was out with the trowels etc. as we tackled the top lawn border. At one a.m. British Summer Time, it looked like this;
But after relocating a couple of perennial shrubs, weeding, inadvertently removing some of the bulbs we planted last September (I bet even the most organized gardener does that sometimes), and filling the bald spots with the thirty plants we bought on Saturday, it looked like this:
We even finished in time to watch the Merseyside Derby! If you look carefully, it features one of those “guess the next in the pattern” patterns that you see in IQ tests. I probably shouldn’t admit that, but it kept me amused whilst Jon was wreaking havoc on creeping buttercup, chickweed and the odd daffodil bulb.
Our next mission is the vegetable patch. The ‘to do’ list comprises:
· Looking up lunar planting;
· Planning the composition of the patch (allowing for a rotational policy);
· Finding the propagators, slug traps and protective fleece;
· Laying down the top soil and the markers for the drills;
and that doesn’t include actually planting anything. Suppose I’d better make a start …
1 Comment
March 31, 2008 at 2:21 pm
The new plantings look great. And you are correct; I have dug up bulbs inadvertently.
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