Getting there

Spent about three quarters of an hour at the back through the last two days, doing the same as usual – pulling weeds and seeds out, chopping bits up for the rubbish.

Blissfully, however, I also did a few minutes of unthreading-the-bindweed(?)-from-the-lavender, which is what I did last year. It wasn’t really blissful, but it was getting back to where I was last year. I’m afraid, however, that that’ll be the limit. There’s still quite a steep slope behind those lavender, and I just can’t see myself working on that until the autumn, when the foliage of the weeds dies down.

There will be so, so much work to do to get the ground I’m currently working on cleared. I’ve currently managed to clear almost all the weed foliage from the top third – I’m ready to start digging again on that bit, and it won’t actually take too long, as long as there’s been a bit of rain – thats the bit thats been dug over twice in the last year. Path is definitely clear, and I’m also clearing the other side – that has two or three inches of soil thats developed over carpet I laid down as mulch years ago. And its also heavily shaded by a sycamore from next door – I need to be brave and get up a ladder to saw some branches off, but I need somebody to stand on the bottom of the ladder first.

I’m just keeping on going!