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Thoughts on a mornings gardening
Our next door neighbours cut their lawns yesterday and this morning they
looks dreadful - the lawns not the neighbours - all wobbly lines and lumps of grass that were too wet for the mower to pick up. I have long wide borders and I usually crash about in the undergrowth getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up the garden in an orderly fashion, how do dim mothers give birth to Mary Poppins like daughters :-) Every year I manage to leave some wooden handled tools outside all winter, of course this morning two of them broke, I found one favorite trowel in the bottom of a lavender bush, so now I have to grovel to HIM to mend them for me and face another lecture :-( So now my morning tasks are done and I am going to have lunch but first I will go and put all my tools away :-) kate |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
Kate Morgan writes
Our next door neighbours cut their lawns yesterday and this morning they looks dreadful - the lawns not the neighbours - all wobbly lines and lumps of grass that were too wet for the mower to pick up. I have long wide borders and I usually crash about in the undergrowth getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up the garden in an orderly fashion, how do dim mothers give birth to Mary Poppins like daughters :-) Every year I manage to leave some wooden handled tools outside all winter, of course this morning two of them broke, I found one favorite trowel in the bottom of a lavender bush, so now I have to grovel to HIM to mend them for me and face another lecture :-( Or learn to mend your own. Or do a cost benefit analysis comparing the time finding and putting away every single time with the rather rare event of spending time and/or money replacing. (And remember to keep a count of chisels used for paint stirrers and all the other typically male ways of misusing tools) -- Kay |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
"Kate Morgan" wrote Our next door neighbours cut their lawns yesterday and this morning they looks dreadful - the lawns not the neighbours - all wobbly lines and lumps of grass that were too wet for the mower to pick up. I have long wide borders and I usually crash about in the undergrowth getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up the garden in an orderly fashion, how do dim mothers give birth to Mary Poppins like daughters :-) :-) Yes, it's a good idea. It's also a good way of motivating yourself, for the times when it seems like there's such a lot to do that it's too overwhelming to begin. Another way I trick myself into getting started is to tell myself I only have to do half and hour, then I can stop. By the time I've got into the swing I'm enjoying myself and then stay out and do much more. ;) -- Sue |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
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:-) Yes, it's a good idea. It's also a good way of motivating yourself, for the times when it seems like there's such a lot to do that it's too overwhelming to begin. Another way I trick myself into getting started is to tell myself I only have to do half and hour, then I can stop. By the time I've got into the swing I'm enjoying myself and then stay out and do much more. ;) do you find that sometimes when things are going really well you do far too much and then are exhausted the next day ? |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
"Kate Morgan" wrote do you find that sometimes when things are going really well you do far too much and then are exhausted the next day ? Yes! Especially if it involves barrowing or turning compost. I've got to move three large wooden bins, two of which are fairly full, to a better site further down the garden soon. I'm hoping I can sweet-talk the Other Half into helping. ;) -- Sue |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
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Thoughts on a mornings gardening
"K" wrote in message ... Kate Morgan writes Our next door neighbours cut their lawns yesterday and this morning they looks dreadful - the lawns not the neighbours - all wobbly lines and lumps of grass that were too wet for the mower to pick up. I have long wide borders and I usually crash about in the undergrowth getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up the garden in an orderly fashion, how do dim mothers give birth to Mary Poppins like daughters :-) Every year I manage to leave some wooden handled tools outside all winter, of course this morning two of them broke, I found one favorite trowel in the bottom of a lavender bush, so now I have to grovel to HIM to mend them for me and face another lecture :-( Or learn to mend your own. Or do a cost benefit analysis comparing the time finding and putting away every single time with the rather rare event of spending time and/or money replacing. (And remember to keep a count of chisels used for paint stirrers and all the other typically male ways of misusing tools) Males, misusing tools! How dare you! Go and wash your mouth out this instant! Alan -- Kay |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:24:09 -0000, Kate Morgan wrote:
getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up the garden in an orderly fashion, Yes ! or Raised beds !! For 20y I did as the books said, dug in copious quantities of compost heaps and leaf stuff, all to no avail on my heavy clay, it just gobbled it up :(, with nothing to show in the following year(s). Then I made raised no-dig beds. Bliss ! Instant enjoyment (well almost ! after I got over the surprise !!) Why am I relating this ? Because of the spin-off :- Just do half of that bed and have a cuppa, then do the other half bed next, and leave the other beds till the following days. Consequently, the 'patch' is divided up into bits one can admire with a cuppa Much less intimidating and before you know it the whole lot is done well ahead of time ! |
Thoughts on a mornings gardening
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:24:09 -0000, Kate Morgan wrote:
getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up the garden in an orderly fashion, Yes ! or Raised beds !! For 20y I did as the books said, dug in copious quantities of compost heaps and leaf stuff, all to no avail on my heavy clay, it just gobbled it up :(, with nothing to show in the following year(s). Then I made raised no-dig beds. Bliss ! Instant enjoyment (well almost ! after I got over the surprise !!) Why am I relating this ? Because of the spin-off :- Just do half of that bed and have a cuppa, then do the other half bed next, and leave the other beds till the following days. Consequently, the 'patch' is divided up into bits one can admire with a cuppa Much less intimidating and before you know it the whole lot is done well ahead of time ! I quite fancy the idea of raised beds,very useful in view of advancing year`s plus back ache, trouble is my borders are very established and I could not take on the job of changing everything now. So far my method of doing a strip a day is working :-) |
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