Gardening - love it or hate it

[accymel]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

It brings a lot of joy to see people looking after their gardens, I could sit and watch them all day

I could too but doesnt get mine done does it, i could do with a gardener

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by accymel

I could too but doesnt get mine done does it, i could do with a gardener

I can't do with seeing a damsel in distress so next time your lawn needs mowing let me know. I'll lend you my mower, it has a grass box

[accymel]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

I can't do with seeing a damsel in distress so next time your lawn needs mowing let me know. I'll lend you my mower, it has a grass box

I thought my dreams were answered reading half of that then wondered whats the catch & yes i found it - i have to do it myself i was hoping then u was going to offer to help this distressed damsel out by utilising your gardening skills heehehe

ps looks like the grass box will have to do then ho-hum

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by accymel

then wondered whats the catch & yes i found it - i have to do it myself

I'm not as stupid as I look

[accymel]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

I'm not as stupid as I look

I thought u was a gentleman hummmmph

[jambutty]

I used to like a bit of gardening but my tired old body cannot do any these days. I wasn’t very knowledgeable about it save for the basics. But I could read and understand what was written on seed/bulb packets and in books so my previous gardens were OK if not spectacular. I was able to grow some very nice radishes and lettuce but was a complete failure with carrots.

My current garden was until recently a wilderness of grass and the odd wild flower. My landlord (Twin Valley Homes) was constantly bleating about its wilderness and just wouldn’t accept that I was growing various varieties of grass. No sense of humour some people.

So a couple of weeks ago I hired one of them rotavator things and my 25 years old grandson spent an afternoon churning everything up until it looked like a ploughed field. A quick rake over, by him, made it more or less levelish and I sowed a few packets of meadow flowers and a patch for some poppies. The poppies, if they come up, will form a large V shape in the middle. V for victory of our forces in two world wars and a subtle gesture to my landlord but it will go over his head.

Beware when hiring petrol engine powered gardening tools from Smiths on King Street, Blackburn. I couldn’t hire it for just the Saturday at £27.50 plus vat, it had to be for the whole weekend but they did knock off 20%. It was delivered on the Friday late afternoon with a full tank of petrol and was due to be collected on the Monday. Charge of £4 each way.

Monday afternoon came and went and no collection. I rang them. Sorry we forgot was the reply. We’ll collect tomorrow afternoon. Yup! You’ve guessed it. I rang them at about 4:30pm on the Tuesday. The van is in Lower Darwen, he’ll be with you very soon. He never arrived.

Wednesday. I still have your rotavator and if you don’t collect it today I’m charging you £20 a day storage. By the way why have you charged me £4.50 for 5 litres of petrol when the tank only holds one litre? That’s fraud. Eventually I was offered a refund of delivery charges and the £4.50.

I’m returning the machine with a full tank and when the driver calls make sure that he has all the money with him. If he hasn’t he doesn’t take the machine away.

They eventually arrive on mid Thursday morning with the money in an envelope and took away the machine.

And now I want some rain and look forward to a garden of meadow flowers and poppies in a month or two.

[accymel]

Mmmm now thats how i explain my back garden as a wild habitat, yup growing alsorts of native wild grass, root, ivy, old fencing etc well who knows what widlife are breeding there in an untouched environment, im calling it conservation not mess hehehehehe

[WillowTheWhisp]

Officially I haven't got a garden - well that's according to HBC. I can't possibly produce garden waste they tell me because I have no garden. OK I grant you it's not big enough for a lawn and sitting out dining al fresco but it does have some plants and the odd tree (one very odd tree). I'm currently cultivating a nice crop of dandelions and one ferocious nettle. I suppose I'll have to get out there with the weedkiller now the Totem Pole is finished

[accymel]

Hehehehehehehe Willow u finished it, hope your daughter was pleased with it ??

I killed off a lawn full & a half of dandelions apart from the edges - wonder how long they will grow back

[WillowTheWhisp]

She says it's "Well cool"

[accymel]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

She says it's "Well cool"

Awwwww brilliant least your efforts was appreciated

[WillowTheWhisp]

I went out tonight and she did some final tweaking and twiddly bits while I was out.

[shillelagh]

My gardens are too big back front and side. I got a little border in front of the house with too big grass bits and the back is 99% grass the rest is what ive dug out to put some bushes in. By the way im cultivating dandelions, some big green leaves and daisies in mine. That is until i mow it - which should be soon because my neighbours have all theirs cut down nice and neat. My lawn mower is one of them that puts stripes in it and it does have a grass box so mel if you want stripes in your garden you can borrow mine!!!

Photos of the border, back garden and part of the front garden.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Nice big garden there and your flower border looks lovely.

[accymel]

I would love bowling green grass or a footy pitch grass with the stripes hehehehehe but i'd have a hard job with my garden grass & soil