I know I've neglected my blog a little lately but THREE times now I've tried to post and lost the lot! Heres a brief rundown of my Feburary garden work. Firstly I planted three fruit trees which I bought in Lidl for £3.99 each, they are in the front lawn – hey I could end [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trees’
14 Oct
Garden day
big logs logs I started this morning picking up a load of logs that I'd bought for a fiver on Ebay. I think I got a good deal for my money and the bloke I bought them off had them because he does trees for work. Now he didn't have a flashy van and shredder [...]
16 Sep
Garden day
Albizia Julibrissin f.Rosea Albizia With a break to spend a couple of hours in someone elses garden for a kiddie party I've been hard at work in the garden today. I had some tree/shrub type plants that I bought as tinies a while back and have grown on in pots and I wanted to get [...]
3 Aug
Great Garden day
new pool A great day in the garden today. I mowed ready to put out James' new swimming pool – its a 12ft rigid one with a heater. "Spoiled Brat" I hear you all cry. Well he had an 8ft easy set one that I got for next to nothing in Tesco. When we moved [...]
18 Jun
Going, going, gone…
I got another 5 trees out today! Talk about hard work. I don’t think they had been in that long really as the rooballs are still pot shaped. I also worked out that digging was harder than just putting my weight behind them and pushing – I knew that extra 5 stone would come in [...]
17 Jun
I do like trees really….
I took a line of 5 confers out of the back of the garden today, it was hard going but they are not that deep rooted. I think maybe they have not been there very long and were just added as screening before the house was sold. Although they didn’t screen much as they were [...]
