It has been a busy time in the garden, with the leaves falling fast. Though this is now great fun as we treated ourselves to a leaf blower, I get to channel my inner ghost buster. As you can see I rock the glamorous leaf look.
The cosmos have completely gone over so they have been pulled up and put into the brown bin. I had some help from my middle boy, he loved pulling the big plants up which was a joy to watch and very helpful. He takes after his mother and likes destructive gardening.
We have increased the size of this border and added a fence to hide the oil tank. As it was just a space that was a pain to mow and serving no real purpose. We will add some stepping stones in so we can easily get behind the tank.
The now much bigger border is wonderful but the ground needs a huge amount of work. I will be off to the garden centre for lots of manure and clay buster so it can work into the soil over the winter months and hopefully be much better in the spring.
This is a lesson we have learnt and seen the benefits from sorting out your soil first. I have killed many a plant by just trying to plant in in not dug over and poor soil. If like us you have clay soil, that looks like this when dug, huge solid clumps of soil.
Then get down to the garden centre and get some farmyard manure and I also use some clay buster from Dalefoot this will not solve your issue but the areas I have put it on for a couple of years are so much better.
The garden is a mess a needs a huge tidy but its no that appealing in this damp weather but there is weeding to do and tidying up and generally sorting out. So I will have a cup of tea and get outside between showers this weekend.
The cosmos have completely gone over so they have been pulled up and put into the brown bin. I had some help from my middle boy, he loved pulling the big plants up which was a joy to watch and very helpful. He takes after his mother and likes destructive gardening.
We have increased the size of this border and added a fence to hide the oil tank. As it was just a space that was a pain to mow and serving no real purpose. We will add some stepping stones in so we can easily get behind the tank.
The now much bigger border is wonderful but the ground needs a huge amount of work. I will be off to the garden centre for lots of manure and clay buster so it can work into the soil over the winter months and hopefully be much better in the spring.
This is a lesson we have learnt and seen the benefits from sorting out your soil first. I have killed many a plant by just trying to plant in in not dug over and poor soil. If like us you have clay soil, that looks like this when dug, huge solid clumps of soil.
Then get down to the garden centre and get some farmyard manure and I also use some clay buster from Dalefoot this will not solve your issue but the areas I have put it on for a couple of years are so much better.
The garden is a mess a needs a huge tidy but its no that appealing in this damp weather but there is weeding to do and tidying up and generally sorting out. So I will have a cup of tea and get outside between showers this weekend.
Oh I totally have leaf blower envy!! Thanks for joining us on the #Dreamteam
ReplyDeleteit it pretty awesome hahaha
DeleteMy boy loves helping in the garden d well. It's fun to have them helping. Loving watching your garden transform
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