Very carefully, is the answer!
We grow golden and red varieties, their thorns are spiny-sharp, so the pruning of these bushes is done after she has walked around the bush to get the shape in her mind.
Then, making her glove-covered hand as small as possible, she reaches into the centre of the plant to snip off any branches or twigs that are growing inwards.
She did fourteen gooseberry bushes, another row and a half of the asparagus bed, oh boy, that is such a dull and dreary job but she is getting there.. slowly.. very slowly.
And lots of pushing and pulling with the little hand mower, it may not be the easiest or quickest way to cut grass but after a few times, it looks quite good, it is a cylinder mower with a roller at the back, not the sort that has a blade that goes round and round, I don't know what that type of mower is called, I'm a parrot, not a gardener!
Despite the weather folk saying it is 'hot', it is not that warm out there, I am content to stay at home, it is only mid March and that wind is chilly-billy when the sky is cloudy.
Tomorrow she has to leave earlier than usual, for she has to go to the shed to buy potash for the fruit bushes and trees.
So we are going to bed early, we had a light, tasty supper and will watch the end of an interesting TimeTeam programme on The Battle of Hastings.
It has informed her that William The Bastard, aka William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy was the second cousin of Edward The Confessor! She
certainly was never taught that at school!
Any of them..
But that is now over and it is time for lights out, so it is "Goodnight" from her and "PipPip" from me.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 15th, 2014.
Post script.. Well, we were on our way to bed until she heard that a documentary was going to be shown on BBC1 on how they discovered the skeleton of King Richard 3rd underneath a car parking lot.. this could not be missed!
And boy, oh boy, he most certainly did have a hunchback! I will write about this in another post.
We grow golden and red varieties, their thorns are spiny-sharp, so the pruning of these bushes is done after she has walked around the bush to get the shape in her mind.
Then, making her glove-covered hand as small as possible, she reaches into the centre of the plant to snip off any branches or twigs that are growing inwards.
She did fourteen gooseberry bushes, another row and a half of the asparagus bed, oh boy, that is such a dull and dreary job but she is getting there.. slowly.. very slowly.
And lots of pushing and pulling with the little hand mower, it may not be the easiest or quickest way to cut grass but after a few times, it looks quite good, it is a cylinder mower with a roller at the back, not the sort that has a blade that goes round and round, I don't know what that type of mower is called, I'm a parrot, not a gardener!
Despite the weather folk saying it is 'hot', it is not that warm out there, I am content to stay at home, it is only mid March and that wind is chilly-billy when the sky is cloudy.
Tomorrow she has to leave earlier than usual, for she has to go to the shed to buy potash for the fruit bushes and trees.
So we are going to bed early, we had a light, tasty supper and will watch the end of an interesting TimeTeam programme on The Battle of Hastings.
It has informed her that William The Bastard, aka William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy was the second cousin of Edward The Confessor! She
certainly was never taught that at school!
Any of them..
But that is now over and it is time for lights out, so it is "Goodnight" from her and "PipPip" from me.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 15th, 2014.
Post script.. Well, we were on our way to bed until she heard that a documentary was going to be shown on BBC1 on how they discovered the skeleton of King Richard 3rd underneath a car parking lot.. this could not be missed!
And boy, oh boy, he most certainly did have a hunchback! I will write about this in another post.
GeeGee makes me want to cross the pond to eat HER fresh produce!
ReplyDeleteYou will just have to come and stay.. May is a good month as the Asparagus is up and tasting yumyumy!
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