Garden Disaster
Instead of ignoring the situation as I have for the last 2 years (!) I have decided to get out and tackle the piece of imported field which I pretend is a garden. Before this weekend, it had a knee-length "lawn", a thriving wasp population, a slug metropolis and many other unsavoury cat by-products hidden in the grass. But now, the grass is no more!
You can actually see the paving slab that the chimenia is stood on, and the brick path that long-since vanished beneath clover and grass has re-appeared, so I can walk from patio to patio without fear. There is an issue though. Look closely at the grass on the following:
There is very little green and a lot of thatch. I raked and raked whilst being chased by wasps (and I mean chased - a few of them actually hit the window in the back door quite hard as I hurredly closed it behind me!!!) and tried to get as much of the cuttings up as possible, but I'm worried now that there is not enough left to survive this heat. They've forecast heavy showers and thunder for today though, so I'm hoping that it will be all right. The good thing is that the weeds will grow quicker than the grass, so I can spot and dig them out fairly easily.
For you nature people out there, I rescued many spiders and waited for the crickets to move and made sure that the carnage was minimised. I didn't even swat any wasps.
If the grass does die, then I have some good paving plans, and if it doesn't, I have made an oath to actually keep on top of it from now on, as I want to be able to use my garden, for relaxation, entertaining, and peaceful reflection rather than have it lurk out there being a constant source of guilt! Watch this space - next instalment is Border Control!!!
You can actually see the paving slab that the chimenia is stood on, and the brick path that long-since vanished beneath clover and grass has re-appeared, so I can walk from patio to patio without fear. There is an issue though. Look closely at the grass on the following:
There is very little green and a lot of thatch. I raked and raked whilst being chased by wasps (and I mean chased - a few of them actually hit the window in the back door quite hard as I hurredly closed it behind me!!!) and tried to get as much of the cuttings up as possible, but I'm worried now that there is not enough left to survive this heat. They've forecast heavy showers and thunder for today though, so I'm hoping that it will be all right. The good thing is that the weeds will grow quicker than the grass, so I can spot and dig them out fairly easily.
For you nature people out there, I rescued many spiders and waited for the crickets to move and made sure that the carnage was minimised. I didn't even swat any wasps.
If the grass does die, then I have some good paving plans, and if it doesn't, I have made an oath to actually keep on top of it from now on, as I want to be able to use my garden, for relaxation, entertaining, and peaceful reflection rather than have it lurk out there being a constant source of guilt! Watch this space - next instalment is Border Control!!!
posted by Catherine at 09:27
1 Comments:
The grass will recover my sweet.... perhaps you could water it a bit if the rains don't come. they haven't here! and it's very therapeutic to stand in the garden with a hose pipe or watering can for 15 minutes or so... See you soon. Kathy xx
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