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GardeningPosted on Mon 27 August 2007 at 11:39I wouldn’t imagine anyone else would notice a big difference in the garden but we have done a tremendous amount of work in the garden over the last few days. I look like I have been knitting with barbed wire as I am scratched and bruised all over (that’s what comes of gardening in shorts!). We lifted all the bark chippings and put down weed matting, then put the bark back down. Sounds simple but it took ages by the time we weeded it all out and measured and pinned the matting. We also chopped out the tree stumps that had just been covered with weed matting by previous owners and left instead of being dealt with at the time. Steve managed to break the little axe so off he went out and bought another one……and a pair of ‘leaf hands’ for scooping up the bark….and a leaf blower cos I really wanted one last autumn and they were on offer…….and a mulcher to chop up all the garden rubbish……and a shovel……..ooohhhh and some chicken and pizza bread so I didn’t have to make lunch. Then we lifted the weed matting under the deck and laid plastic sheeting there so that we could put down the pebbles from the front garden. Now all that remains is to source some white pebbles so that the front garden really takes on the whole contemplation garden look. I chopped back the flax bushes and we fed it to the mulcher, then spread it over the borders as well. We stood on the deck at about 6.15 and caught the last of the daylight, looking out over the garden with a huge sense of satisfaction. It was one of those ‘we live here’ moments that we cherish, that again vindicates our move to2 days later.... On Sunday, we went out to look for white pebbles for the contemplation garden at the front. It is just so good finally owning our own house and having free rein to actually DO things like this. I must get the Steven to take some photos and I will get them on here as it looks so different to me. Anyway, I digress as usual. So we found the pebbles and some bricks to create a barrier for under the deck as we intended to lift the front pebbles, put them under the deck, lay new weed matting/plastic at the front and then get the new white pebbles delivered. We bough the stuff at |
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