Devote one hour a week at least to working in the garden

Pulled a sack of weeds out of the front garden
Weedkillered the front garden, back patio and pathway
Mowed the lawn

We spent hours and hours at the weekend building a raised bed – had to dig out the current bed down to about three feet deep first and then add edging. Then we filled it in with lots of soil and compost and stuff.

Yesterday I planted some climbing beans in the bed, and two troughs of dwarf beans. I also repotted some of the sprouting broccoli seedlings into larger pots.

I still need to transplant more of the chilli plants, and some of the peppers.

It’s so exciting to see things grow and start to florish, and all from seed this year so far.

in the front wall, and also in pots in the porch. We have also grown beans and peppers and lettuces from seed so they will need planting out very soon.

...we trimmed the rose and the lilac and did a bit of weeding.

Mowing again :-) Plus I strimmed the edges this time and we had the trees thinned out to let a lot more light in. It’s looking good!

This week I planted the pepper and chilli plants into larger pots, mowed the grass and tidied up the leaves. It all looks a lot better now. Oh, and we cut the front hedge too.

This weekend we built a raised vegetable bed as we are fed up with the snails and stuff eating all our veggies. This weekend we need to plant it with seeds and plants and then make a real effort in keeping it clear of pests. It looks good and is far larger an area than we’ve had before to plant things in. Lets hope it’s a success.

We also weed killered the front garden so hopefully things will start to clear there and we can clear all the weeds out soon.

we raked all the moss out of the lawn and weeded it. We also planted some pots for the font porch with pansies. They look nice and colourful. We cut the side hedge which badly needed it. Our garden is looking good so far.

We planted tomato plants, lettuces and rocket in pots. We also planted some flowers in the wall and a new clematis next to the one we bought a few years ago. The garden is begging to get some colour back. I need to mow the grass soon, and the hedge could do with a trim too.

Maybe this goal should be ‘mow the lawn’ and ‘get rid of the dandelions’ rather than the more lofty and never-to-happen ‘landscape the garden’!! That’s about the level of need at the moment.