Getting ready for May house inspection.
May. 6th, 2012 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supermouseBefore I get onto gardening, I liked this letter to a girl.
The part of the house inspection I am given to get ready for is the garden. So, today, I:
Sawed out neat squares from the blown-down trellises to make smaller frames for the winter squash.
Took the rest of them apart and stacked the pieces.
Cleaned the masonry to repaint, only to find we're out of masonry paint.
Took out about fifty dead canes from last year's bushes.
Mowed the lawn, filling our not-small mower's basket up twice.
Edged same.
Stained the decking rails, fence and bird feeder. (You can't even see where I stained the decking rails in November - the weather has scoured it all back to bare wood).
Weeded, although only enough to appease the house agent.
I'm going to see if the local nursery will deliver me a bulk amount of bedding compost for all the May sowing, and the delayed late-April sowing. I basically need enough to cover the vast bulk of a twenty-foot-long, four-foot-deep bed six inches deep.
The part of the house inspection I am given to get ready for is the garden. So, today, I:
Sawed out neat squares from the blown-down trellises to make smaller frames for the winter squash.
Took the rest of them apart and stacked the pieces.
Cleaned the masonry to repaint, only to find we're out of masonry paint.
Took out about fifty dead canes from last year's bushes.
Mowed the lawn, filling our not-small mower's basket up twice.
Edged same.
Stained the decking rails, fence and bird feeder. (You can't even see where I stained the decking rails in November - the weather has scoured it all back to bare wood).
Weeded, although only enough to appease the house agent.
I'm going to see if the local nursery will deliver me a bulk amount of bedding compost for all the May sowing, and the delayed late-April sowing. I basically need enough to cover the vast bulk of a twenty-foot-long, four-foot-deep bed six inches deep.
