Do you keep your garden clean?
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or is your garden one of those with a rusty old car and broken paving slabs in?
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Unfortunately the little bugger is now doing its business on my back lawn and I'm hoping against hope that one day I'll catch it in the act and if I do then its a goner. Three years and I've only seen it once and then made the mistake of not choosing a head shot. I spent well over 3 grand on the back garden and the bloody cat's ruining it.
In a perfect world, i'd be able to just get some grass grown on both sides of the path and leave it at that, but at the moment it's just large open patches of dirt and a few weeds !
Phew, I was a bit concerned initially at the thought of slabs and rusty things in one's lady garden..:o:o
Our back garden isn't worth keeping up, it's small and ugly and never gets much sun. I do wish the neighbors would stop using it as an ashtray though.
There is a delicate balance between something that attracts the birds to the table and the bushes that draw them and seem horribly overgrown.
I do have a wonderful beast who comes to cut lawns and be bizarrely over-enthusiastic in cutting back borders. But - overall, I try to maintain the mix between wild-life friendly and not pissing off the neighbours.
On first glance I read that as 'usually has a horse draped over it' which gives a completely different picture in my mind
no room for anything rusting.
The driveway gets a good sweep and a tidy up every week.
The back garden has been a bit neglected though, but late last summer I started to give it an overhaul. Ivy removed from side of garage, leylandi hedges cut down and completely removed as they were getting too big to trim properly. I have, however, unearthed an old dog kennel that was hidden by the hedges and I never knew was there
This spring/summer the plan is to repair a damaged part of the fence, rip out and get rid of that old dog kennel, thoroughly clean and tidy it all up and plant some shrubs to brighten it up. I also need to take a strimmer to the weed patch next to the dog kennel that was also hidden by the hedges. My garden is about three feet longer than I thought it was
Last year I grew tomatoes, red cabbage, runner beans, cucumbers, aubergines, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, carrots and parsnips (which we had for xmas dinner). Its only about 5m x 6/7m in size with a path down one side and a gravel bit under the window with a bench. Its south facing so gets the sun from 9-4, It's all open and before anyone asks, we haven't had anyone come and nick any of it yet, though we live at the end of a cul-de-sac.
The back garden was re-done last year, so now its paved and decked with half of it grass. Before then, it looked like a bombsite with mud everywhere as I had kept chickens (which didn't help with the mud). I'm now banned from having any more!