National Gardening Week – First Update after 4 hours of work….

I managed to get the garden into a better shape. It’s miles away from finished, but take a first look.

Before: 

Abandoned garden

Abandoned garden

Compost

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I cannot say this enough, to whoever planted the bamboo in the neighbours’ garden, which grows its roots into ours, it was a really bad idea.
It took ages to remove the roots and it’s still not completely done.

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There was also another surprise. I found a large amount of sneils. Eeeeh, I always forget about them and whenever I start to dig around the garden, the first few hours of seeing them are rather unpleasant. They started to climb up the pot walls….but I’ll spare you that

Garden sneils

So I kept on digging

Gardening

and weeding

Compost

As I was unearthing all sorts of bugs, a tiny bird showed up to take advantage of that

Red Tit bird

Red tit bird

I also cut off the hydrangea:

Hydrangea

Hydrangea

and fixed the runner bean support net against the fence attaching it with cable ties to bamboo sticks that I had cut off while weeding.
You can almost not see the net.

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So in 4 hours I managed to get the garden from this:

Abandoned garden

to this: 

Urban Gardening

I hope you like the progress

#NationalGardeningWeek #ngw

http://www.nationalgardeningweek.org.uk/