I'm sure I'm not the only one to be deterred from getting to grips with the garden - we're all behind! Hard to do much with frozen soil and soul-curling easterlies.
However, this Sunday glimpsed a break in the cold! Lovely day so got on with some much needed tidying up.
So much to do but keeping it focused and simple helps to control what would otherwise be an overwhelming amount of space. This weekend was about secateurs. Simply walking the garden, cutting out last year's stems, thinning out ramblers and pruning fruit bushes was a pleasant hour's work. Quick finish with the yardbrush made paths look clearer and the garden immediately fresher.
Managing time is a theme running throughout all these posts. To be both tasty - and hasty - this garden demands the strict organisation of time. The way I do it is to make sure that tasks are planned in advance, focusing on a specific area of the garden.
Next weekend will see me tackling two casualties of the winter: some wooden troughs rotted completely through require dismantling, geranium cuttings need to be taken from larger specimens overwintered on the kitchen sill and seeds started. These latter will all be initially set inside lest we become further plagued by the weirding our global weather is currently undergoing.
