No more, the green, green grass

After many years of thinking about it and wishing about it I got rid of my lawn, replacing it with gravel. Before I start to effuse about how much better it is I'd like to say that for 10 years I tried to improve the lawn and get it to that bowling green consistency that I craved - all to no avail. Every spring and autumn I spiked it, added sand, feed, mosskiller, the works but it still had damp patches that were mostly moss. Added to the fact that in Autumn/Winter the entire lawn area became un...

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April 21, 2009 7:32 PM

Bank Holiday Weekend

It's Monday, the last day of the of the Bank Holiday. I spent most of yesterday, Sunday, pottering in and around the garden, so I got a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to do for ages out of the way. The more I garden or rather the more experience I gain as a gardener I realise that it's one of those "tasks" which never ends and therein lies the satisfaction and I guess maybe the skill. For example you can plant and tidy up and it will look brilliant but give it a few months and you can be sure ...

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May 31, 2004 10:45 AM

A new day dawns, holy light

So the Bank Holiday weekend has come and gone and not unsurprisingly I did the square root of f**k all. TBH I didn't exactly have loads of things that I was *planning* on doing but I was planning on doing slightly more than I actually did......if you see what I mean ;-) The TFM spoke to me last thing on Friday afternoon with regards to my payrise et al and it basically boiled down to "I'd like to pay you more but the budget, etc, etc....". He did say that they'd try to look at it after the ne...

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May 4, 2004 4:43 PM

Take a chill pill

The weather at the weekend was excellent so as a result I spent most of my time in the garden, well during the mornings and afternoons anyway. The time seemed to evaporate and before I knew it it was Sunday night again. I actually got a bit sunburnt on Sunday morning when I was "polishing my stones".

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April 26, 2004 1:59 PM

Gardener's World

Spent most of today digging and rooting around in the garden. I got a lot of stuff done that had been in the queue for ages so I guess it was a worth while exercise. I didn't realise how "thuggish" some of them (the plants) were - still the spade got them under control pretty quickly.

Wnet to Helensborough yesterday with Jackie, the weather was brilliant so we sat on the front and ate our lunch - a bag of chips each! We came back via Loch Long and Tarbet....which was nice.

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March 30, 2002 4:25 PM