The weather was fine enough for gardening over the weekend so we decided to make a start on flattening the lawn in preparation for making a solid base for the table and chairs. We removed most of the top layer of grass in the area that dipped the most, dug it over, added some hard core for drainage i.e. leftover gravel and recycled (broken up) terracotta pots, spread two bins’ worth of home-made compost and relaid some of the turf we had removed to level off the lowest parts. We then moved to the adjacent section; this had the greatest slope. I dug it over, removing masses of iris tubers, fruit bush roots and blind daffodil bulbs, and moved soil from the top of the slope to fill in the dip and lower down, whilst Jon went and found unused boulders and rocks from other parts of the garden (as you do) to form a small wall. It sounds so easy in print but it took us hours and a hot bath to soothe the aching muscles. By the time we’d finished on Sunday afternoon, it looked like this:
Sami shows off the lawn
Several hours later, it looked like this:
Several hours later ...
No more gardening! So we went out and did this:
and this:
Well, we didn’t actually go UP Snowdon. We just took photos from a safe distance.
The dogs thought the snowy weather was fabulous, apart from the snowballs that accumulated round their legs.
The current sleet looks like it’s doing its best to turn to proper snow so the only garden task over the next few days will be replenishing the birdfeeders.
