Just found that the gloves I use for Nettle pulling are two right hand ones. I must have thrown away the left when we packed up to move.
Only about 600 0r so, mostly seedling Auriculas. Today's work on the Stump bed. [img] First line of rocks. [img] Rocks buried. [img] Second...
We have been watching the light on that bed before deciding how best to proceed. There were 17 large rocks on it, so I will use them to create...
Tried some of the Boss's hand cream, yesterday. Cien from Lidl I think. Instant reduction of roughness. Better than anything I have tried before....
Nettles are the worst thing with the gloves with knotted style backs and leatherish fronts. I use the kind of rubberised gloves which Refuse...
Yes and yes. Surgical ones for potting compost and cheap gardening ones for general work. Otherwise my hands get very dry and cracked, even with...
Not birthday, wish it was, Golden Wedding.
50 years today!
Spent the last few days clearing out one bed in particular. It had a huge tree stump in the middle of it and roots all over. There were some very...
Not been here long enough to really check the weather out. Seems a little less Frost prone than the other place which was a frost pocket. Biggest...
Definitely get well soon.
The slightly winding driveway could be a bit of a problem in that it is shared by four properties and there is no formal ie legal agreement as to...
The hedging ones will have to be done by the fencing company. Not sure about the rest of them. We will have a go first and see if we can do it.
I have added some pictures of the more problematical areas with massive conifers and laurels.
We moved 6.1 miles. I know as I did 7 trips with plants in the car loaded to the gunwales. No decisions made as yet, except that some of the...
So we are here and I have done as I threatened and taken pictures of it as it was when we arrived (except for the boxes and boxes of plants). Not...
Here and obviously online. BT were very good,putting in a new telephone socket and setting up the hub. Moving was, and still is, utterly...
Boxes to the left of them, boxes to the right of them. Boxes, boxes every where . Last day here. Last ever bath last night (shower only in new...
Chionodoxa have now been subsumed into Scilla, so the name is Scilla luciliae.
Pleased you feel fit enough to post again.
