Yes today she 'liberated' three Jacques Cartier, one Ellen and one Pristine rose bushes and her much beloved and oldest red currant bush from the evil clutches of blackberry briars and chopped down a sycamore that had the temerity to self seed itself!
I know Andrew and Matt are going to do it but she had to do the outer edges and go as far in as the rose bushes so that they knew where NOT to slash and destroy!
Another four hours were spent out there! Her waist is shrinking and she has a bit more energy each time she goes. The next day she will be going out there is on Wednesday for tomorrow, Tuesday, she is taking a couple of things to be valued.. she doesn't use them.. so they should be sold to someone who would love them and then do she will a few hours at the shop.
On Thursday morning she is doing the first part of the salami making, then she'll go to the allotments in the afternoon and take a bucket with her. For it is our much beloved Susan's birthday on Friday so she will fill it with roses and we'll take the roses and a big chocolate salami with us when we go to Singing With Dementia after lunch.
The weather today was supposed to be most cloudy but apparently it was pleasant, perhaps it was a good thing it wasn't too hot, for wearing thick jeans, leather lace-up boots and leather gauntlets are not the coolest of clothes!
But very necessary! She has a couple of scars where she fought a briar and lost skin and blood! So she was properly protected when she tackled this patch, all twenty five square feet of it and over ten feet high at the tallest bit! But by slowly loploplopping away, she has reduced it greatly in size.
You can actually walk down the old paths now, it's a bit wiggly as there are heaps of cuttings on the ground, nothing the guys can't deal with. But the difficult bit will be in the place where the old green house used to be, there is a high wooden fence there, she's thinking that perhaps it would be easier to remove the fencing to allow the guys into this area.
It will take some doing but would save them time. And time is money! She wants this all done and taken away in the one day! She'll lop down the jasmine and drag it over herself, they can chop it up and take it with the briars and raspberry canes.
Yes, all the old raspberry canes are going, despite the fact they 'promise' a huge amount of fruit this year, she has other plans for this space. A large bed of globe artichokes.. the purple and the green ones. She loves them and SO do I! So, it is slowly coming back to what it used to be like, pruned roses, neat paths and with lots of new double height raised beds.
She is going to have another BIG job on her hands, which is taking ten feet off the top of her yellow gage! It was supposed to be the smallest root stock there is but it's standing there, as bold as brass, at well over sixteen feet high! Not for long dearest.. not for long!
She lopped the two equally tall Stella cherries, that stand either side of it, last year. They have responded well and are covered in fruit, she will throw huge sheets of net curtaining over them.. it looks very funny but does the trick!
There's still much to do but 'it' and she are not going anywhere this summer, it will all be done and as she wants it. Then, before we know it, it will be fruit picking time and time to cover everything in manure and put the plots to bed for the winter!
She'll wait for the asparagus canes to dry off in November, then she'll weed that bed, cover it in seaweed and manure and top it off with a big square of membrane for the winter.
Our bewitching hour is fast approaching.. I hope you've all had a happy week end and done pleasant things.
GeeGee Parrot.
May 25th, 2015.
I know Andrew and Matt are going to do it but she had to do the outer edges and go as far in as the rose bushes so that they knew where NOT to slash and destroy!
Another four hours were spent out there! Her waist is shrinking and she has a bit more energy each time she goes. The next day she will be going out there is on Wednesday for tomorrow, Tuesday, she is taking a couple of things to be valued.. she doesn't use them.. so they should be sold to someone who would love them and then do she will a few hours at the shop.
On Thursday morning she is doing the first part of the salami making, then she'll go to the allotments in the afternoon and take a bucket with her. For it is our much beloved Susan's birthday on Friday so she will fill it with roses and we'll take the roses and a big chocolate salami with us when we go to Singing With Dementia after lunch.
The weather today was supposed to be most cloudy but apparently it was pleasant, perhaps it was a good thing it wasn't too hot, for wearing thick jeans, leather lace-up boots and leather gauntlets are not the coolest of clothes!
But very necessary! She has a couple of scars where she fought a briar and lost skin and blood! So she was properly protected when she tackled this patch, all twenty five square feet of it and over ten feet high at the tallest bit! But by slowly loploplopping away, she has reduced it greatly in size.
You can actually walk down the old paths now, it's a bit wiggly as there are heaps of cuttings on the ground, nothing the guys can't deal with. But the difficult bit will be in the place where the old green house used to be, there is a high wooden fence there, she's thinking that perhaps it would be easier to remove the fencing to allow the guys into this area.
It will take some doing but would save them time. And time is money! She wants this all done and taken away in the one day! She'll lop down the jasmine and drag it over herself, they can chop it up and take it with the briars and raspberry canes.
Yes, all the old raspberry canes are going, despite the fact they 'promise' a huge amount of fruit this year, she has other plans for this space. A large bed of globe artichokes.. the purple and the green ones. She loves them and SO do I! So, it is slowly coming back to what it used to be like, pruned roses, neat paths and with lots of new double height raised beds.
She is going to have another BIG job on her hands, which is taking ten feet off the top of her yellow gage! It was supposed to be the smallest root stock there is but it's standing there, as bold as brass, at well over sixteen feet high! Not for long dearest.. not for long!
She lopped the two equally tall Stella cherries, that stand either side of it, last year. They have responded well and are covered in fruit, she will throw huge sheets of net curtaining over them.. it looks very funny but does the trick!
There's still much to do but 'it' and she are not going anywhere this summer, it will all be done and as she wants it. Then, before we know it, it will be fruit picking time and time to cover everything in manure and put the plots to bed for the winter!
She'll wait for the asparagus canes to dry off in November, then she'll weed that bed, cover it in seaweed and manure and top it off with a big square of membrane for the winter.
Our bewitching hour is fast approaching.. I hope you've all had a happy week end and done pleasant things.
GeeGee Parrot.
May 25th, 2015.
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