As promised off out into the garden....
Yolanda had me chuckling yesterday with her post on what the discerning gardener wears and uses so I thought you might like to see my gear!!!
Yes I know Yolanda, green wellies and knee pads, the problem is I don't have the storage space for a nice colourful pair, until I get holes in the green pair by which time fashion will have changed again and I will be out of fashion yet again wearing a colourful pair. So I think I will stick with what I have!!!!! But I do have a lovely pink bucket and I want to get a lilac one too, so I may not be a total loss!!!!!!!!!
First off I gave the chickens 'Eglu' a good scrub, this is before
the girls having a good scrub around
after
I am using the straw that I wrapped my bananas with over winter and the chooks love it they spend hours scratching around. When I give them their mixed corn in the afternoon, it keeps them so occupied!! I have had to put up shade netting for them as they where getting a bit hot. When they have scratched around for a couple of weeks on this I have been following
'Scarecrows' lead and using it as a mulch on my beds!!!! She is a mind of info!!!
But have you seen the new state of the art home for chickens, no bending required to clean it out, I want one in purple please.....
It houses 6 - 10 chickens and is the new
'Omlet Cube'. Costs lots of money but how cool, wheels as well. My Eglu is sooooooooo, easy to keep clean, that I should imagine this will be just as good if not better!!!
The path is laid, it so much better than the 'humpy dumpy' one we had before. Lots of plants have been planted, there is loads to go in from the greenhouse
and it still looks a mess!!!
as you can see I have put an edgeing in to keep the lawn and flower bed apart, I didn't like the bright green, so bought another bamboo one but need some more. It helps keep the straw mulch on the flower beds!! I shall have to get some more though!! Then I shall mow the green stuff (its not a lawn at the moment) spike it and I have loads of soil (from removing 'humpy dumps!!') which I shall riddle, and then spread around this part to even out the level then I will reseed, I probably should have done this a bit earlier but I think I still have time!!!
this is looking back up the garden, I shall have to paint the fence! It actually belongs to our neighbour and really needs replaceing, but we think, she thinks, we own it, we don't everyone owns the right hand boundary as you look out from your house, what is probably confusing her is our neighbours on the right and the one before him both replaced our right hand fence!!! So we believe now we own none!!!!
The tulips are just going over now
Oh dear! Senior moment has just occured!! Whilst I have been typing this I was waiting for the tea to brew. I have just gone to pour a cup mmmmmmmmmm! and out comes plain water, I forgot the teabags!!!!!!!!!!! oops just made a fresh pot, with teabags this time!!!!
The blossom is just blossoming!!!!!!!
Harebells...
I have lots of these but sadly no bluebells, something I think I will have to rectify!
Right I must go and beautify myself, I am off to Bath, hat shopping if you remember!!!! Not looking forward to it. On the way back we pass some garden centres so might pop in and see what they have! Tomorrow we take Kathryn and Lee back to Uni, thats when the weather will break because I will have sheets and towels to wash and dry. Mind you we need it, I have used 2 3/4 butts of my 6 already!!!
