I have just spent the best part of the day in the garden, clearing weeds from the vegetable plot and the area which currently houses Scintilla, the electric powered Fiat Cinquecento, but which will soon be hardstanding space for my caravan. The garden now looks ever so slightly tidier, viewed from the footpath at the side of the house. The rest of it looks no different of course. That would take about a months constant work to improve.
This time I have restricted my efforts to the removal of known weeds. The last time I worked in the garden I was asked to remove a tree like plant that had self seeded and was growing near the fence in the raised section by the greenhouse. An accurate description you might think. Well, I found five or six tree like plants, tall slender, weedy looking - i.e they looked like weeds - so I removed them all. Turns out they were the sunflowers planted by the children. And I missed the problem "tree"completely. Whoops.
So to put that right I will in future return to dealing purley with what I know and understand - "hard" gardening. That is, concrete and fences, greenhouses, steps, paving, decking and the like, mowing the lawn - you can;t go too wrong with that, and digging big holes under strict supervision from 'er indoors. That way I should stay out of trouble.
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