Nursewhen Digs It Up

Good to have you back Nurse your neighbour's patchwork lawn is coming along quite nicely now I bet your very relieved.

Good luck in sorting out the quarrying I'm sure you will get there in the end.:thumb:Hel.xxx.

 

Hi Hel,
It's good to be back. The front lawn is looking much better, but I wish it would stop raining because now it desperately needs to be mowed and as I now use a push mower, it's really hard work when it gets long. I wish my neighbours would take a turn at it.

I've got a skip and a man with a mini digger coming on Friday, so it's starting to get moving now.

 

Hooray for burly men with mini diggers!

The skip arrived, the mini digger arrived, he looked at my quarry and said 'that won't take long' and what a great job he did. Lifted off the top soil, piled it up, dug out the rubbish, loaded up the skip, emptied my hippo bags and evened it all out. It took 2 hours. I should have done this ages ago.





So that's why I couldn't get the spade into the ground!



Goodbye to bad rubbish!

 

Yay!!!! :D

 

whohoo brilliant u can start making it look lovely now

 

hope you have many happy hours planting up that garden now.:thumb:

 

Didn't they say that about Stonehenge?

 

Any updates??

 

Having read PeterS's article on improving clay, I decided that adding a bit of straw to my clay would do it the world of good. I then found that it's surprisingly difficult to buy straw! I kept ringing up straw suppliers who would fall about laughing when I asked for just a couple of bales.

so I took a drive into the country, found a farm with bales on the field and asked the nice farmer if I could buy a couple. He very kindly loaded them into my car and charged me £2.00. Bargain!

The nice chap with the digger threw in a scoop of topsoil (I think he felt sorry for me), so I spread the straw around and shovelled some of the top soil over the top to hold it down.

Unfortunately, the soil was delivered into the trench that I'm still working on because there's still rubbish that needs digging out, but it was too near to the skip for the digger to get to.

So I'm going to have to dig the top soil out of the trench and continue quarrying.
I don't think I'm going to get much more done this year (since it won't stop raining!), so I'll probably cover the section nearest the house and leave it until spring when I'll get another load of topsoil and compost and finish the job.

(The neighbours cut the lawn last week. Hooray!)

 

just read this thread for the firs time now, but cna i ask, has the first bed been covered this whole time?

 

What a nightmare. I'm sure you'll get it sorted in the spring

 

Yes it has. Will that cause me a problem?

 

don't think so, i was just amazed you hadn't started planting it yet!!even if the others weren't ready...

 

Hi NurseWhen.

I've been watching this thread from the beginning and just wanted to say you've done a wonderful job so far! :D

Ant.

 

Ah, that's because I have long term plans. I want a box hedge to run all down the garden and I didn't want to have a third started one year and two thirds started the next because I'd end with a mismatched hedge.
Also, I was using the covered area for my skip and hippo bag. And on top of that, after making a mess of my back garden which took years to rectify, I've learned patience and the rewards of proper preparartion.

Thanks all for your encouragement