Pick a Spot

 

Over winter there wont be a lot happening in the garden. Its easy to hibernate the time away in front of the fire, watch movies and add insulating layers of… warmth. Hmmm

I decided that I have to ‘pick a spot’ and attend to said spot on days that aren’t completely feral weather wise.

One of the paths down to the back has always looked manky. Its annoyed me forever, but I have just decided that it is my first ‘spot’

A big area of day lilies grow here really well despite complete neglect and horrible looking soil.

So really… weeding was the first step

Followed by removing all the dead leaves of the day lilies

Much to Jeff’s delight I have finally moved my driftwood collection from the carport into a suitable place!

Next stop – compost

I am so pleased with my compost! I hadn’t played with it for a while – it has a cover on it so all the worms are chicken-proofed.

Its just teeming with tens of thousands of worms! Awesome

So, into the wheelbarrow to my new project

We have a stack of newspaper and access to more if we like, so I put a good layer down first to discourage weeds

Well… Its a great start and its looking a lot better so far than it did before!

I think we will get some seaweed grass to put around the day lilies, which will hide the ugly stony ground. Once spring rolls around they fluff out, go mad and flower, so its pointless paying to put down woodchips that you probably wont see for half the year – and the seaweed is free. (important point)

The middle pathway still needs to be weeded properly, and we will probably woodchip it.

I am still thinking on what plants to put in the garden bed – plus will probably build it up with some more topsoil first before planting anything.

Since I was mucking about with my compost, I decided to get out the little mulcher to whizz up some of the pruned sticks that I thought were dry enough

Compost should have about three parts ‘brown’ to one part ‘green’ so breaking down the branches when we prune trees and bushes is a handy addition to the compost bin. Very pleased we bought this little machine.

Not to be outdone with the whole power tool thing, Jeff got out the chainsaw to cut the stump of a branch of the apple tree off to an angle. Someone told us if it was left flat it would get water settled into it and rot

And even though it was not quite ready –

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekends!!
Cheers!