Domesticity and Gardening
Posted: Sun 20 February, 2005 Filed under: General 2 Comments »Yes, most of the weekend has been spent in the garden – and I’m knackered. Most of it’s not too bad: let me loose with a pair of secateurs and I’m normally quite cheerful. The plants might not be, but I am.
Anyway, Jasmine’s a bastard, and grows everywhere. Pine sap makes me cough. Never noticed it before, but today it did. Russian Vines are a determined bunch of sods, and take a lot of time to cut right back. Buddleias are fun – and easy – you just cut ’em right back.
Composters, on the other hand, are an utter sod. We’ve got two, and both needed emptying of compost, and any manky shite that hadn’t yet broken down needed to go back in. That’s not so bad in one of them, which actually has a hatch at the bottom so you can get stuff out. The other one was designed by some utter twunt who couldn’t see why you’d need access to the bottom of it, so it’s designed as one solid body. Grrrr.
Still, we’ve got a load of good compost out of ’em, and it’s saved a bundle on buying the stuff. And all the rest is back in (or all over my clothes) and going to be rotting back down a bit more.
Now, is that domestic or what? Pretty good exercise though, all that forking, digging, and trimming.
Wow, impressed isn’t the word. I award a knighthood to the woman who tamed you Lyle. BTW isn’t russian vine banned? aren’t you supposed to report it and have it exterminated? it’s either that or another typeof equally invasive vine. As for killing it, don’t use herbicide because that will just kill you. I suggest a good session on the beer and a post kebab barf on the base of it, seems to kill off everything else, even the notoriously hardy rye grass.
Saw your comments about Russian Vines Do you live anywhere near London as I really want some Russian Vine roots for a large expance of empty wall and cant seem to find any xxxxxxxxxxxxxx