Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud!

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 20:15:31 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 20:15:31 GMT I've had a tough weekend, feeling drained.

sweetpea Top Member Posts: 5,982	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 21:59:52 GMT Moonlight likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sweetpea on Oct 19, 2014 21:59:52 GMT Oct 19, 2014 20:15:31 GMT Moonlight said: I've had a tough weekend, feeling drained. Maybe it will be the drains that will be suffering soon when speedy Gonzales arrives.
	I'll get around to it eventually

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 22:28:25 GMT

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I think you should clear it all now this autumn winter. The brambles might need Sbk though . Then you can plant in the spring.

You sure roses and fushias I would have thought another 15 dahlias squeezed in ! And you could underplant with loads of daffodils !

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 22:34:36 GMT

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Oct 19, 2014 22:28:25 GMT Raymond said:

I think you should clear it all now this autumn winter. The brambles might need Sbk though . Then you can plant in the spring.

You sure roses and fushias I would have thought another 15 dahlias squeezed in ! And you could underplant with loads of daffodils !

I'm in the middle of doing an update of what happened last year Raymond so it may not yet make sense. You'll need to have to bear with me on this.

Raymond Top Member Posts: 2,677	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 22:50:24 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Raymond on Oct 19, 2014 22:50:24 GMT Sorry moonlight. You are making good progress. You will have a nice size area to use they're once finished

Raymond Top Member Posts: 2,677	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 22:52:06 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Raymond on Oct 19, 2014 22:52:06 GMT Hope no damage caused . Goodnight moonlight

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:14:40 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 23:14:40 GMT Need to reorder the above posts. Hopefully then everything will makes sense.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:15:49 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 23:15:49 GMT

I really wanted to do an update of 'the corner' because it has changed a lot since Spring 2013.

May 19, 2013 22:16:55 GMT Moonlight said:

The middle part of the garden with the lawn has bushes etc there are still loads of brambles and lots of weeds. We don't have a real plan but what HH wants to do is clear a bit at a time and hopefully fingers crossed I'll be able to plant my fuchsias and roses. etc. one day.

So massive tiny steps.

The battle commences.........

More to follow...

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:16:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 23:16:52 GMT The battle continued... May 19, 2013 22:37:26 GMT Moonlight said: The battle continues...

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:17:47 GMT

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Then there was more...

May 20, 2013 9:10:09 GMT Moonlight said:

The battle continued yesterday

Photos are dark because I took them after girls had gone to bed. I was too dirty (dirty fingers + camera not a good combination) and busy doing my dahlia tubers to do any others.

2 sacks of bark at the back of the plastic sack queue, the rest and all the others running round the side of the greenhouse are manure which I am steadily working through. Poor HH came home from work to a patio that you could hardly see as the majority of it was covered with sacks of manure. Moving it round the side of the greenhouse was my

bright idea, (Oh dear another one

less of an eye sore and to suppress the weeds where HH had cleared round the side of the greenhouse. (Ran out of time and good weather to put anything down to suppress the weeds.)
The manure sack block didn't work because the stinging nettles are back.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:19:04 GMT

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You can tell by the previous photos that the tree was dying. Over the years that we have been here the tree has gradually slumping to one side and the branches that the 2 collared doves / pigeons that used to sit on where become brittle and the weight of birds feeding from the bird feeder snapped the branches as they were so brittle and weak.

Then we had the storm and then we had this happen.

On the part of the fence next to where our neighbours have their swimming pool imagine a hot tub sitting on the garden, rather than sunken into the earth. So we were worried that it would all topple over and smash their pool.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:19:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 23:19:47 GMT So we brought in the emergency tree men. Who cut down the tree

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:20:34 GMT

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Which meant that I could plant these:

Which I hope makes my plan make sense, although the exact location of the Jomandas and Mary's Jomanda were very much last minute because I couldn't decide what I wanted. Maybe because I am torn, I know that if I grow and show them I have a good chance of winning or more shall I say a better chance of winning, than if I enter anything else. The torn part is that they are not true Ball dahlias and are Decs but they have still become the judges choice of Ball class exemplification. Which does my Father's head in. He hates them with a passion n.b. if they were exibnited in a Dec class he would have absolutely no problem with them but he wouldn't grow them because they are not his cup of tea. I've grown them because I want a good chance of getting placed. I've done it again this year, I entered Jomanda and won. Unfortunately I made a deal between it and myself. I'd only grow it if it won this year.

It did but I could give up on Mary's Jomanda but then much as I don't like them, Mary's is a better colour than Jomanda.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:21:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 23:21:35 GMT So hopefully this all means that this (hopefully) finally updated 2014 plan makes sense...

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Oct 19, 2014 23:22:23 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Oct 19, 2014 23:22:23 GMT So I am hoping that this all makes sense. (n.b. You would not believe how long this all took to put together. Bit of a perfectionist at times, especially when something is important to me. )