Further gardenage

[avevale_intelligencer]

Another four and a half hours today, this time hacking back the magnolia, which was stupidly trying to bud again, so we've probably traumatised it for life...but if you don't do things when you have the energy, you can't do them when you haven't, and we need to be able to walk around these trees. The apple will have to wait till it's finished appling. BTW, if anyone wants huge amounts of Bramleys and possibly some unidentified dessert species, give it a few more weeks and come and get 'em. There's more than we can possibly use, and I hate to see them rotting on the ground. They're probably even organic.

Discovered a surviving fuchsia under the bindweed. Hope we haven't killed it.

Have an angle grinder for chopping up the ex-shed, and are considering hiring a shredder to get rid of vast tottering piles of holly and magnolia cuttings. Have moved and emptied compost bin and replaced incinerator.

Am knackered. Even more so than yesterday. Sense of achievement wearing a touch thin.

Comments

[jahura.livejournal.com]

I would reccommend getting the chipper. At the very least, it's theraputic.

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

if you don't do things when you have the energy, you can't do them when you haven't

I wonder, if I was to put this on a sign and hang it where B keeps bumping into it the message might get through?

Well done for sticking with it :)

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

If you can find someone who presses apples and returns you some of the juice for their trouble, then do it. Bramley juice is wonderful. My MIL does this - she gets back i/3 of the juice in well-sealed bottles, which keep. We fight over the stuff when we go to visit.