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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Major works in the garden

Why is it that just when you get things to a perfect condition in the garden, you decide to go in for some major, disruptive project? I suppose it’s the constant striving after an even more perfect perfection than you already have …

So this weekend has been a busy one: we’ve dug up three currant bushes, a tayberry and some very prickly raspberry canes, a thornless blackberry (hurrah for thornless, so much easier to uproot without donating a fair amount of your life blood to the soil) and my prized and lovely Katsura tree. Now we have a patch of bare earth which looks miserable, and a whole collection of fruit bushes making a miniature pot-jungle on the path.

And next weekend … we shall begin the insanely complicated process of putting together the greenhouse! Yes, over 300 components of aluminium and polycarbonate glazing, bags of sand and bags of gravel, cement, steel posts and all the rest of the paraphernalia are waiting in the garage to become a small Eden (except it’s a standard greenhouse, not a biome) in which I shall grow tender crops and exotic plants.

There’s only one problem. Well, two, really. Problem number one is trying to guess how long it will take us to do the assembly – a weekend, a week, a month? It looks worryingly difficult.

Problem number two is that the list of things I want to grow is already too big for the greenhouse, and I’m adding to it at least three times a day ….

Labels: fruit bushes, greenhouse

The All Seasons Gardener at 4:18 AM

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