I have gardened this patch of ground for 28 years – I had it ploughed out of the field. It is MY garden.

After we developed rabbits – we managed with Flexinet for several years – I did a lambing season next door and Graham put up proper rabbit fence and I dug it in – that was about 25 years ago and the fence has got old – scary that I have gardened long enough to have rotted a fence…

So given no veg could be grown this year due to Open House Surgery we took the opportunity to pull out the fence ready to be replaced as soon as Graham has time. We also pulled out the wretched Privet hedge that I – fledgling skint gardener – had thought was A Good Idea to grown from cuttings… Nasty thing grew like hell, was impossible to control, killed more veg than it protected and was an actual slug and snail farm.

Gardening By JCB…

Soft fruit bushes got a good prune…

When I came here the remains of the cottage garden was to the west of the house in Kites Close and near the base of an old greenhouse was this Rhubarb plant –

It was the first thing I planted in this garden and all lawn mowings since have been piled on it – and it remains – with some chives and the Moss Roses I brought from The Biddle – my childhood home – as the last traces of my veg garden.

I applied two coats of chemicals – Roundup and SBK.

I hired a Rotavator a few weeks ago  – but the ground was too hard. I want to get it gone over before spring if I can – or at least somewhere clean on it to stack the goose manure  -which now the sheep have been sold and the horses are on shavings is my only source of FYM!

It is as if I was never here…Ouch!

So it begins again…