I am to gardening what @threebikesmcginty is to DIY
So here it is. Last summer I ripped out the overwhelming ivy thing which was slowly taking over the garden and house. I hate Ivy. This was my attempt to finally tackle the garden as we'd done the house. Anyway, lots of sweaty effort later, I won. I turned over the garden, removed some flags, jet washed the remaining ones and who knew, they were different colours. Suddenly the place looked like it had potential.
And then it began. Mrs C envisaged a spa pool with reclined decking or something, the boys wanted an in situ climbing wall, with overhang come basketball net and I just wanted it to not look like a tip. No one could quite agree and I gave up, which, as I was the only one doing the work, was a problem.
Soon the weeds took over, the grass grew threw the paving cracks and it all began to look a bit ramshackle again. of course this was my fault. Apparently I'd made it look worse than it was. I maintained a diplomatic silence on the matter. It was true though, even the dog wouldn't chance his arm in the weeds, I could clearly see he didn't know what was lurking there.
So armed with new found determination, I have shut out demands for reclined decking etc... turned the garden over again, done my best to flatten it and sowed grass seed.
I dunno. I can't get the damn thing as even as I would like but surely green grass is better than triffids.
What do you think?
So here it is. Last summer I ripped out the overwhelming ivy thing which was slowly taking over the garden and house. I hate Ivy. This was my attempt to finally tackle the garden as we'd done the house. Anyway, lots of sweaty effort later, I won. I turned over the garden, removed some flags, jet washed the remaining ones and who knew, they were different colours. Suddenly the place looked like it had potential.
And then it began. Mrs C envisaged a spa pool with reclined decking or something, the boys wanted an in situ climbing wall, with overhang come basketball net and I just wanted it to not look like a tip. No one could quite agree and I gave up, which, as I was the only one doing the work, was a problem.
Soon the weeds took over, the grass grew threw the paving cracks and it all began to look a bit ramshackle again. of course this was my fault. Apparently I'd made it look worse than it was. I maintained a diplomatic silence on the matter. It was true though, even the dog wouldn't chance his arm in the weeds, I could clearly see he didn't know what was lurking there.
So armed with new found determination, I have shut out demands for reclined decking etc... turned the garden over again, done my best to flatten it and sowed grass seed.
I dunno. I can't get the damn thing as even as I would like but surely green grass is better than triffids.
What do you think?
