Pruning, washing, moving earth...

A nice sharp, bright day today. I intended to keep filling up the middle raised bed by digging earth from the back of the garden, but also chopping 5cm from all the lawn edges. MBH worked at pruning the beds either side of the steps. I did OK, but was distracted by keeping the children clear of MBH, minor jobs and remembering to squeeze the gates so that you couldn't see straight through them! I was still glum all day after putting my foot through the ceiling of the kitchen when doing the plumbing for the extension...

This is just annoying really, since we need to get plasterers in anyway, but still. What a muppet.

The beds before and after:





And the jasmine, which is just about giving over at the moment:

You can see the garlic coming up in the background, and the frame I put in today - this had sunflowers growing up it last year.


A shame we don't have htm-smell, because this is really fragrant at the moment.


I also put the kids to work - and they did a great job!

The Extension preparation

After probably two years of humming, harring, planning and preparing, we finally expect the builders at 8:00 tomorrow morning, with a JCB. We had to prepare the ground for them, saving and destroying various plants.


E. photographed me struggling with the frame with H. "helping".


Then we yanked out the pyracantha (nowhere for this one to go, so it gets the chop) and various herbs, that are now distributed around the garden.



Then I noticed the cable supplying the garden shed and thought that was best dug out rather than chopped by a JCB. And here we are, ready for the off.