Well, apart from building the new compost boxes, and spreading the old compost onto the vegetable beds (soon to be filled with potatoes), Mark did some other garden work – and we have photos to prove it too!
He swept and washed the bottom patio and path area outside kitchen and patio doors and put out the small table and chairs in anticipation of some much-desired sunshine. He did some weeding and cutting back of the bottom and right-side garden beds and tidied up the summer jasmine which grows in a box outside the utility door. We have a box of lavender which we cut back at this time of year too and Mark has done the same to our small purple hebes which we put into our ‘municipal bed’ as we lovingly call it, at the lower end of the right border. Photos to follow. I will also try and take some photos of our garden lights, which we had fitted by an electrician – basically several lights leading from the bottom patio, right up the side path and finishing with a floodlight fitted to the summer house which lights up the zig zag path.
He also tackled some of the cutting back, but I am a little worried that some of the geraniums have been ripped out as well, unless they haven’t even started to come through at all yet. Time will tell – if I end up posting photos of empty soil, you will be able to guess the reason!
Someone else seems to be gardening, as the bonfire smoke is somewhat infusing into the house – quick, John, shut the windows…..
