The Potting Shed

Kathy · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject:

YIPPEEE, all uphill from there. Very Happy

Kathy · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

Well the nights really are getting lighter at last. Loads done in the gardens. Veg beds cleared and dug over, fruit bushes moved and new ones planted. Mr Kathy has performed a chainsaw massacre and the borders are now cleared. The shrubs were really badly out of control so they will now get kept to a manageable level.
The ginormous plum tree has been limbed and we've cleared the honeysuckle away from it, it was getting choked. Around the base of the plum tree we've built a wall which will get filled with flowers.
The space for the greenhouse has been cleared and the cold frame cleaned out.
Apple trees pruned, roses pruned and weeded and I've made a start cleaning the gravel path.
In the dogs bit we've sorted all the wood from a pile of old potato boxes, made a new fire pit and planted fruit bushes along the fence.

I'll get round to taking photos soon! Smile

janowl · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject:

I moved from Kent about 9 months ago now and had a lovely garden there. I am now in Northants, and have a tiny garden but trying to make the most of it. I have weeded, mowed and pruned. The earth is clay here and was lovely in Kent. But most of the plants i brought with me have seemed to survive. Owing to the fact that i have just had a knee replacement i did all this before i had it done, and son came and helped me put trellis up and rearrange some things, so all in all i am quite pleased with it but wish it was bigger. I suppose at least i have a garden, when a lot of people havn't.

Jojo · 2 Star Club Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 632 Location: Lincs

Well any garden is better than nothing,and I think small ones can be made to look bigger with pots and trellis,and as I get older I am pleased I havn't the large garden I used to have.
I have taken up all the old daffodils plants that have not flowered I think they have been in years and I am going to plant the smaller variety, lots of the garden centres have got bedding plants in but I think it's to soon to be planting them yet Confused

Kathy · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject:

We're starting our bedding plant seeds tomorrow Jojo, much too cold up here!

Jojo · 2 Star Club Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 632 Location: Lincs

My seeds from the seed swop are just starting to show,so they will be a while before they are at the planting stage,and it's still giving frost warnings on the weather for us and we are half way down the country Confused

I find you can often pisk up bargains at the garden centre if you wait a couple of months Smile

Kathy · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject:

The tomatoes and bedding plants are poking through, the living room looks like a greenhouse!
The back fence is up and the base for greenhouse 1 is nearly finished. Smile

nanny · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: