Having helped a friend sort out a storage unit this morning, we managed to get out to the allotments by 1pm this afternoon and what a busy afternoon it was.
They haven't worked for five months so both the lawnmower and the strimmer took their time to spark.. but sure enough, vroom vroom, the mower soon fired up and off she went to cut the grass.
That done, she used the grass strimmer and went over areas where you can't use a lawn mover and
what a difference it makes to the look of the plots when the edges are neat and tidy!
And, what a different set of back muscles you use too! Every single muscle in the lower and upper back are used when you swing a strimmer back and forth or push a lawn mower.
And don't even start on what her poor old right hand goes through after the first couple of times of using the strimmer!
After eighteen years of working this land, she's learnt not do the plots all in one go but to split the work into sections and strim, weed and prune and then repeat the sequence.
This means not one set of muscles works all day long and that she can actually walk off site at the end of the day and not be classified as a basket case!
It was another glorious day, she planted bulbs and corms and pulled out the white carnations, which she'll replenish with new stock from the Richmond branch of Homebase.
After watering the strawberry plants she planted yesterday, she weeded another section of the terrace and a cutting bed of jonquils and dark blue hyacinths, both of which she loves.
And looked at her watch! Goodness me, it was past 4pm, time to leave for there's a bus at 4.30pm on Satuedays which we could catch if she was quick!
Tools put away, Shack locked up, off we went up the track, just in time to cross the road and catch the bus!
It was another very productive day and today will be much of the same sort of work which means that everything has been done.
Now comes the work of cutting down and digging out those gooseberry bushes and cutting down the non-flowering jasmine! BIG jobs, both of them.. but they have to be go, they're old and not earning their space!
We'll be back tomorrow.. with more tales of life on an allotment, which is pretty much what our life consists of at the moment.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 24th, 2019.
They haven't worked for five months so both the lawnmower and the strimmer took their time to spark.. but sure enough, vroom vroom, the mower soon fired up and off she went to cut the grass.
That done, she used the grass strimmer and went over areas where you can't use a lawn mover and
what a difference it makes to the look of the plots when the edges are neat and tidy!
And, what a different set of back muscles you use too! Every single muscle in the lower and upper back are used when you swing a strimmer back and forth or push a lawn mower.
And don't even start on what her poor old right hand goes through after the first couple of times of using the strimmer!
After eighteen years of working this land, she's learnt not do the plots all in one go but to split the work into sections and strim, weed and prune and then repeat the sequence.
This means not one set of muscles works all day long and that she can actually walk off site at the end of the day and not be classified as a basket case!
It was another glorious day, she planted bulbs and corms and pulled out the white carnations, which she'll replenish with new stock from the Richmond branch of Homebase.
After watering the strawberry plants she planted yesterday, she weeded another section of the terrace and a cutting bed of jonquils and dark blue hyacinths, both of which she loves.
And looked at her watch! Goodness me, it was past 4pm, time to leave for there's a bus at 4.30pm on Satuedays which we could catch if she was quick!
Tools put away, Shack locked up, off we went up the track, just in time to cross the road and catch the bus!
It was another very productive day and today will be much of the same sort of work which means that everything has been done.
Now comes the work of cutting down and digging out those gooseberry bushes and cutting down the non-flowering jasmine! BIG jobs, both of them.. but they have to be go, they're old and not earning their space!
We'll be back tomorrow.. with more tales of life on an allotment, which is pretty much what our life consists of at the moment.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 24th, 2019.
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