Home improvements takeover - 26 September 2006

Here's the photo's, as promised. Green pepper!

Transplanted strawberries

Courgette!

New flowerbed next to shed, knew those stones would be useful somewhere!
And again!
Managed to acquire these pavers from George's raised allotment where they were excess to his requirements. Just the right number for me luckily.

As the heading suggests I've been very busy decorating etc, etc - now we have a dining room and lounge. The wardrobes in our bedroom are also well on the way and will be completed as soon as a missing piece of timber reaches us. The house has been upsidedown for the last fortnight so it is really nice to be back to normal, even if rooms have moved about!

New wildlife area - 17 September 2006

Today I dug a small area at the side of the shed and planted some tall, spindlely, purple flowers that butterflies and bees like. They had a visit from a bee while I was working - nice. Also planted an orange blossom shrub which had outgrown my garden at home. Edged the bed with stones and placed some old branches on top to encourage beetles and spiders etc. .

This weekend I also transplanted some of the strawberry runner plants - some had very long roots and other had hardly any, so fingers crossed!

Unfortunately my camera's batteries ran out today so I can't upload the photo's yet. Killing loads of slugs - going for the chop in half method at the moment as someone said slugs can crawl out of water (was drowning them in the water trough for a while).

Back from holidays! - 12 September 2006

Sorry no news lately but have been on holiday with my hubby Steve to Mallorca which was ace. Here's a photo of us up a mountain just off the windiest, narrowest, steepest road i've ever the driven the wrong side of!!


So went up to check on allotment - all is well. Roger and my Mum have put a new felt roof on the shed which looks very smart. We had no fresh food in the house today and the allotment provided the answer - 6 chilli's, a lovely green pepper (probably the only one), rocket, salad, parsley and 3 courgettes! So chilli and green salad for tea - just need to buy an onion.

Gave everything a good watering as it hasn't rained for a few days. My 2 neighbours, Kath and Leslie are both getting new sheds. Was bit sorry to find out that my neighbour killed their weeds with weedkiller - glad I haven't planted that end now, would prefer not to eat nasty chemicals. Will write again soon - strawbs also doing well.