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Spring projects

Astridlora

Have you started any spring projects of late?

I felt really depressed over the winter, it seemed one of those tiresome endless winters to me, where spring feels like it’s never going to come. But I feel brighter now seeing the sun again and the flowers starting to grow in the garden. I walk outside and everything is bright and alive again, that’s something for me to smile about.

My home has fallen in to a forgotten and abandoned state, inside and out, due to my own lack of motivation, can’t blame anybody else other than myself. Some days I just can’t muster up energy to do a lot. But since spring and the brighter weather I decided to get out in the fresh air and try to start some spring related outdoor projects…

So I decided to clear the garden up a bit!

My progress over this weekend, clearing fallen trees, and ivy off the stone wall.
Sadly the ivy has damaged the wall, some of the stone came off with the ivy, I will try to work out how to fix this. Today I want to cut the grass, if I can get the old mower to start up lol.

I got it from this….

 

To this!

Very pleased.

I’m looking forward to seeing/hearing about your own projects.

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  • Looking good and it feels good I think to get things like this done or underway, nice its outdoors too. I'm not a gardener myself but do like to get outside when I can, mainly walking. No specific projects apart from hopefully selling the house! Hope you keep things going!

  • in reply to White_Dragon

    I'm tidying up and refurbishing a couple of flower beds and turning the veg bed into a fruit patch, climate change means my veg get hammered by strong and salty winds, but fruit does really well, so I've got some dwarf fruit trees in and some raspberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes in and an enlarged strawberry patch.

    Where are you moving to WhiteD?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Good luck with your fruit patch. That sounds amazing, such a fun project too. I wish I had the skill and inclination to do such things in my garden, but I wouldn't have a clue where to start. My garden gets a lot high winds and in the past when my mum was still alive our veg patch got decimated.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Good luck with your fruit patch. That sounds amazing, such a fun project too. I wish I had the skill and inclination to do such things in my garden, but I wouldn't have a clue where to start. My garden gets a lot high winds and in the past when my mum was still alive our veg patch got decimated.

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  • in reply to Astridlora

    Actually growing fruit is really easy, blueberries like an acidic soil, so thats a big pot and a bag of ericacious compost, keep them watered and just let them do thier thing.

    Raspberries, and black, red and white currents don't seem to mind any soil, they don't mind wind either, one of the reasons I'm turning from veg to fruit. You can get small plants for £3 each in Morrisons or garden centres or online. Just dig a patch of ground over and remove weeds, plant your plants, cover with some bark chippings water well and a feed of something like liquid seaweed once a week and off you go.

    I have my strawberries in window boxes on an old table in the garden, they don't seem to mind any sort of soil, but they are quite hungry plants and need a good water with liquid seaweed or chicken poo pellets, I surround mine with straw as a mulch, it keeps the fruit off the soil.

    When it's autumn have a look on Youtube for tutorials on how to prune your fruit bushes, its all fairly easy, or you could look up gardeners world and see how Monty Don does it, I find it best to find someone who you like and can understand and stick with them or you'll get confused. Strawberry plants will have babies that come off runners abit like spider plants, I get a small pot of compost and poke the new plantlet into the  pot of compost and peg it in place with a paperclip that I've undone, or a hair grip and just leave it, make sure its watered and dosen't dry out, then next spring, clip the runner off both the new plant and the mother plant. You can double your amount of plants easily.