My home is a mess

jpscloud

Thanks bearcub... yes it has worn me out, I feel a bit crap again now but glad I did it, as it's now drizzling and horrible.

Cat, I bought this house because of the garden... I tried living without one, once... it nearly finished me off. I'm a pathalogical gardener but true to my messy gene, I'm a wildlife gardener, and that's "wildlife" as in "can't be bothered to clear all that scruffy stuff up, hope something makes use of it for a home for the winter", not as in "not a blade of grass out of place"!

I'm yawning for England now.

laurel7172

Happy birthday for yesterday, Kitty! Enjoy the pub!

Well done Jacci :T Hope your arm isn't hurting too much tonight.

Well done in the garden, jps. I have an Aldi morello trained against the garage wall. Lots of blossom last year, but no fruit set. And the birds got all that did I had another tree delivery today-a mirabelle (a friend of mine makes the best jam I've ever tasted from hers), an apricot and...a huge extravagance, but I still haven't spent anywhere near the cost of getting the hedge trimmed...a graft of a graft of a graft of *the tree from which Newton's apple fell*. :j I'm excited, my son is excited, my daughter managed a "Cool", my dad and even my mum were excited. The geek is strong in this one, Luke. They're heeled in for now...but they're going to need planting fairly sharpish.

Another one to say demessying is not compulsory, Cat. I've done naff-all, all week, it feels.

*And* while my parents were over, my dad was looking for something and walked into my bedroom. Naturally, the bed stayed tidy for a matter of hours before reverting to its drug-addict layabout look, and though there's less of it, there's still stuff everywhere. :eek: I so wish they hadn't seen it...but I could hardly say that it actually wasn't too bad compared to last week... :o:o

The one thing I did achieve this evening is to tidy up the grouting in my bathroom from the tiling my dad did...at least a year ago. I was starting to think of the scraper and grout tub as normal bathroom accessories. :rotfl:

bearcub

I'm so sorry, Cat, reading back, it did sound as if I was talking to a child.

I do know how you feel, jps and laurel, as my OH and I are keen gardeners. We left a big family friendly garden, to this place with a small rather time-consuming plot, but definitely wildlife friendly. Exciting link to history in your garden, then laurel! Oops about your dad and your bedroom!

jpscloud

laurel7172 wrote: »

I have an Aldi morello trained against the garage wall. Lots of blossom last year, but no fruit set.

I'm hopelessly excited about mine! Did yours have blossom on it the first year of planting? I sooo want some blossom this year, but am prepared to lose most of the cherries to the birds, if it ever has any on!

laurel7172 wrote: »

The one thing I did achieve this evening is to tidy up the grouting in my bathroom from the tiling my dad did...at least a year ago. I was starting to think of the scraper and grout tub as normal bathroom accessories. :rotfl:

I still have a tube of silicone sealant sitting on the side of the bath

laurel7172

Thanks, bearcub.

I just have a 1980's suburban garden...so it's big only by today's pocket-handkerchief standards and small by any other measure. Hence the nursery trees. Having had to do all that work getting rid of somebody else's planting mistakes, I decided I wanted to know *exactly* what the rootstock was and therefore *exactly* how big each one would grow. No room for error-literally

laurel7172

I think it might have done...this will be its third, or maybe fourth year. It didn't do much for a while, but I'd deliberately got one with evenly spaced, whippy branches because I'd ALWAYS wanted a wall-trained fruit tree. We put the wires up last year and tied it in, and it took off like a rocket. Either it was finally ready to go or it thrives on S&M

laurel7172

I still have a tube of silicone sealant sitting on the side of the bath

If I hadn't had a blitz on the family bathroom pre our Chinese exchange student, so would I have...:o

Cat501

bearcub wrote: »

I'm so sorry, Cat, reading back, it did sound as if I was talking to a child.

lol I was confused there bearcub, didn't know what you meant! Please don't be silly, I didn't take it that way at all!!!! God knows I usually need reminding to do stuff!!:D

hart44

Good morning messies

I have been up since 4.30 again, I keep getting headaches, it feels like someone has smacked the back of my head with a lump of wood the Doc has given me some tabs and said it was tight muscules in my neck but they just dope me out all day, Im ok after a warm shower and a coffee but Im fed up with waking so early

Well thats my moan of the day done :rotfl:

Didn't get much done yesterday as it was Mrs W's day she was home when I got there so had a good natter and she told me she is putting the house up for sale but was staying in the area so she will still need me also asked if I could do a few extra days to get the house deep cleaned to show it off to new buyers, I of course said yes

Today I have to run my DD to work for 9 then Im off to Mrs J's to clean for her, she is a Head teacher so will prob be there when I go so another natter

Im not going to touch my garden till the weather improves then the whole thing is getting dug over and Im going to start again . When I moved in with my OH the very long garden was so over grown I didn't even know how long the garden was we strimmed it down but the grass is just dandelions and cooch grass . I want to put in raised beds and slab the bottom end near the shed and put a new lawn area down. I have a lot of work to do there

Kitty I am so very sorry I missed your birthday but I hope it went well and you managed to avoid any cleaning on your day

As for school parent evening I went to the 1st one when DD went to high school, never again, they just told me what I had already read in her report and I had to wait hrs just to hear it all and loads of other parents where pushing about down narrow corridors :mad: when my son goes in Sept this yr Im not even going to the 1st one, if there is anything I need to ask I will make my own appointment

Must get DD to work now so catch up later Have a great morning

thriftwizard

Morning everyone! I joined in a whole back, but seem to spend most of my sporadic moments online catching up rather than posting. Can't resist all this talk of gardens, though... I've spent the week cleaning & "tidying" up my shop/workshop - the shop bits don't look too bad, and the workshop does look as if I might occasionally be able to find things now - and in the process my home has gone from bad to worse. And I'm totally fed up with both - I just want to be outside or in the greenhouse I don't actually have!

Jpscloud, your garden sounds a bit like ours. W did actually plan it as a wildlife/mini permaculture Forest garden, and it does pretty well for us in terms of producing food, but some of our neighbours think it's just neglected - not a petunia in sight, just lots of greenery with the occasional native-type flower! But we do grow a lot of herbs, salad, top & soft fruit and are self-sufficient in eggs, without a lot of work,although it's actually not that big & we are in the centre of our little town. We also have lots of visiting wild birds, and help from hedgehogs, frogs & toads, not to mention foxes & even the odd badger.

NEED to get my tomato seedlings going now... I insisted on a big growhouse, one of the 6' wide by 2' deep ones, as the only place we sensibly could put it was alongside the driveway, and every year I solemnly try to grow enough tomatoes for at least one lunch! But somehow the growhouse, like everything else round here, has filled up with odds & sods - time for a spring clean there too, I think.
We too have a Morello cherry in the front garden, and it took several years to get going properly. It's absolutely beautiful in flower, and always sets loads of fruit, but we have to beat the birds to it - though we always leave them some too - then we sit & eat most of them, just halved & dipped in sugar - delicious! Any left will also be dipped in sugar & stuck into the dehydrator for winter snacks.

We also have two quinces, two hazels, a russset apple and raspberries around there, underplanted with rhubarb, thyme, sage & rosemary, and the hedge contains cherry plums as well as beech & dog rose, quite a lot for a space 13' x 30', but it all grows well together somehow. Sadly some of our neighbours can be heard muttering, "We'll never win XXX In Bloom with that muddle in the street..." though they're not averse to relieving us of some of the spare apples from the big Blenheim Orange round the back, or half a dozen eggs now & then. You can't win 'em all, can you?!