Make my garden beautiful

The place got somewhat out of control again but I wasn’st here and couldn’t go much. Since I’ve been home, I’ve been busy in the garden weeding and mowing again.

As i am not running at the moment, i am working in the garden instead. Its very hot but i am doing about 2-3 hours a day.

The wet season has started and i have begun planting things about.

Actually i have changed it to two hours a day on those days when i am not running and at least 15 minutes when i go for a run.

I am really enjoying the garden now, though its hot and i get sweaty and I can only work late in the day when its not unbearable. I am never up early enough to do the morning thing.

Most of my work at hte moment is about clearing the garden rubbish that has accumulated and i am burning it off twice a week.

The rains have begun so it will be all i can do to keep up now but i have to get rid of the vine that has taken over the property adn which is trying to strangle the fruit trees and other things. Its hard on the hands.

Today i did that, some weeding – cause the ground is soft, mowing, and hauled a few dead branches up to my fire place.

I am noticing now that that even if all i do is clean this place up it will be pretty nice. Of course it would good to get everything healthy and the fruit trees producing. But even if i never plant anything myself, this cleaning up job will make it a much more lovely place.

But anyway i have new motivation and a new strategy.

It will take time but i need to get back to this on a regular basis. Now it is part of my fitness program to work in garden an hour a day for a few days a week.

the garden is half bathed by sunlight and it’s only a couple of degrees above freezing, plants have started to break through because of the warm spell we have had and are on hold again…

I have soaked and sown 4 types (x 7 seeds) of sweetpea in the large warmed propagator and I can see at least one is starting to come up after 3 days

I can fit in 20 other 3 inch pots so I am going to sow a sprinking of 20 different seeds and start growing them from today

I have a large stack of seed packets at my side which I have chosen to go in…

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Echinacea
Candytuft (dwarf mix)
Snapdragons (illumination mix)
Red hot poker (flamenco)
Cobaea (cathederal bells)
Lupin (Russel Mixed)
Hollyhock (charters mixed)
Aquilegia (long spurred hybrids)
Ganzia (Sunshine mixed)
Cosmos (Versailles tetra & gazebo mixed)
Statice
Borage
Cineraria Maritima (silverdust)
English Lavender
Paeony Black Poppy
Purple Splendour
Livingstone daisy
Ox eye daisy
Salvia

I think that will keep me going for a bit

I will sow only a few in each pot…because if you think about it, I only realy need to have 5 seedings from each pot and I have a 100 plants under my care and I do not want to be giving myself a huge head ache of having to prick out and pot on thousands of plants!!

I do have about another dozen seed packets to sow after that, but they are ones that either need to be sown from March, or can be sown direct (phew! less work!)

I am excited! I live for my gardening and have felt a little blue over the winter…but soon it will be spring

right…must get on and sew some seeds.

and these ones have survived the BASTARD slugs

make the brick privy in the garden beautiful

job done

I am so proud I have managed to make my garden bloom

but with the odd dose of sunshine, it is still looking lovely and I am very happy with it and mother nature doing her thing rain or shine

and it is bountiful