I have, somewhat to my surprise, managed to survive England. After an ungodly amount of travel (10 hours or so?) I finally dragged myself back to my flat (be it ever so humble). Nicely, it would appear that my fears for my potatoes were somewhat unfounded. I have put together a Flickr [...]
On the 1st, or thereabouts, I attacked the garden again, after forgetting for about a fortnight. It’s looking very green now, although the weeds are now really making themselves known.
As the binmen had emptied my Brown Bin, I had room to do more pruning. This time, I tackled the huge bush right beside [...]
Yes, it’s been a little while. I’m sure you’ve been chewing your fingernails wondering about developments.
Well, it rained, it rained, and then it rained some more. The lawn, and everything else, seemed to like this. So I cut it all down again.
I forgot to take “before” pictures this time (d’oh!); there was [...]
On Sunday, I trekked back to HomeBase and got some Lawn food for the garden. I thought long and hard about declaring chemical warfare on the weeds, but the “do not use the next four mowings for composting” put me off.
What I perhaps should have done is bought some grass seed and [...]
It turns out that my tiny, tiny flat comes with a tiny, tiny garden, and according to the latest management inspection, I’m supposed to be looking after it. Oops. So I’ve been given two weeks to whip it into something resembling shape, after approximately a year of total neglect.
I first had [...]