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Greetings earthy people,
Well what a change in the weather today, it started raining about 10am ish, and its still p————-ouring down now (you thought i was going to say a naughty word then didnt you !)
But we did manage to do an hours weeding this morning and i must say its a great feeling when you dig a weed up and it turns out tobe a huge one covering a bigger area than you thought, by the time the rain started i’d almost filled my wheel barrow with weeds and prunnings of dead bits off the verious shrubs,

When i stop & think about it this shower is a good thing as it soaks in the granulated feed into the soil and waters the seeds ive sown.

After we got rained off i went into the barn and painted a second coat on the large garden bench so the days not all be lost.

I was thinking about the state this place was in when we first got sight of it (the house and land)
Nobody had lived in this house for 25 years and so not only did the complete house need lots doing to it but the land was well over grown and back to nature,

We fell in love with this house because of its location and the 2 acre land all around it,
The neighbours thought i was mad when i said i was going to make this field into a beautiful garden and an orchard.
Here we are now 9 years on and the house if almost finished except for a bit of outside pointing,
And the garden really is nice “but” as any gardener will tell you “a gardens never finished” your just keeping mother nature waiting, As soon as you no longer garden!
then she steps in and takes it back.
If you think about it we garden people go against all the rules by trying to grow against all the odds, IE we bring plants/shrubs from all parts of the world, from all different climates and growing conditions and try to grow them.
We dont want any weeds near our plants so we remove them, I bet half the time these weeds help the plants to grow,
Ive always expected to hear one day they’ve found a cure for some illness in the common chick weed or nettle, And to think we’ve been chucking them on the compost heap.

Yes gardening is full of questions and sometimes when i read the victorian ways of gardening i have to laugh,

I was reading today about how the victorians used urination (wee wee ) to verious uses,
(1) Was to have the masters bedroom “potty” taken to the gardener and the urination would be emptied onto the compost heap to aid the rotting down of the household compost waste, (no problem there)
(2) It was found that the common mole could be scared away from his mole tunnel if the smell’s of human urination was put in the entrance to the tunnel "mole hill soil removed and the hole will be found there,

The emplyed gardener was encouraged to urinate down the moles tunnel,
could you just imagen one sunday next door returning from church with the children and seeing the head gardener with his trousers down & kneeling down,
(delivering the weekly mole deterent) !

“Honest me lord its not how it looks, im a happy married man im just trying to scare the “mole” away"

Yes gardening has come a long way since the early victorian gardening ways.
Regards and
Good gardening to you all.

• 26 Apr, 2013
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