weed my garden

...well, after 2×2 hours sessions of mulch spreading, I’m about a quarter of the way through the pile. It’s a big pile. Mind you, there was a lot of general weeding, taking-apart-dodgy-bits-of-fence, cat patting, etc that went on in that time…

The gardeners came out again on Friday & chopped down the remaining weedy bits at the back, repoisoned the weeds trees that have resprouted & took all the debris away.

There is still a HEAP of mulch to be spread…

Got out into the yard today & poisoned a tree that’s trying to grow out of the side of our house! Score 1 for persistance… Also took out ANOTHER bit of oleander that’s sprung up.

Bit by bit…!

Tree lopper came, lopped & then mulched the lot! Now I just have to tidy up weedy edge bits & spread the mulch to suppress further weeds.

Finding the time is going to be the problem…

We just got a quote from the tree lopper, who’s going to come out & cut down remaining weed trees, take off the lower branches of a bigger tree near the house & mulch THE LOT, including the debris still in the yard from the gardening guys the other day.

This is happening on Thursday! Yay!

...the garden blokes with the chainsaws turned up and chopped down about 3 quarters of what needed to go! We are waiting on a call from the arborist to cut and mulch 2 bigger weed trees. Yay!

...we had a friend who runs a gardening business look through our garden the other day. Apparently MOST of the trees in our garden are weeds!! Aaaargh!!!

Whilst we’re certainly not going to slash and burn the whole place, we ARE going to get our friend’s business to chop a lot of them down… THEN we’re going to spend forever feeding them to a shredder… THEN they can become mulch to stop further ‘weed tree’ outbreaks!