Wednesday 5 June 2013

A BIG Thank You to Andy!


My sisters and I are taking mum on holiday to Scotland tomorrow.  She was born in Greenock and left at the age of 25 when she married Dad.  She is 91 now.  There's a 1932 photo of her standing outside a large house: my younger sister went on Google Earth and the house is still standing looking exactly the same.  So we are off down memory lane for a few days.

In the meantime Andy will be left at home with a pile of wood which will miraculously transform into seven raised beds for my allotment.  He'll deserve something better than a stick of rock when I get back.
He has already made a MASSIVE difference to the place.  Here's what it looked like on Saturday:



AWFUL!!  To make matters worse the new neighbours plot looks like this:



So challenge was on!  I spent all day Sunday there and reclaimed ..... one bed!
Monday morning Andy turned up with the lawn mower and muscles and reclaimed the whole thing!



So a BIG thank you to Andy!!
Obviously I still have some digging to do!
Once he has put the new raised beds down I'm going to grown biennials this year instead of lots of veg.  I think there's still time to plant a few spring onions, carrots and beetroot.

In the meantime does anyone know any good recipes for clover ??

7 comments:

  1. Yay to Andy! And yay to you for taking your mum to her childhood home! I'm excited to hear more about both after you get back!

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  2. Men - they have their uses.

    Well done Andy.

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  3. So Andy did already a great job, your allotment soon will be fine. Nice to take your mum on a memory tour, have fun together.

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  4. Patricia,
    I'm here over Janneke. I love your blog and think your allotment will be better than neighbor's one.
    Nadezda
    http://northern-garden.blogspot.com/

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  5. Quite a transformation. We all need an Andy or two.

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  6. Hello I've just found your blog and am now a follower.

    You have some lovely photos on here and your garden is very pretty.
    Bye for now
    Julie :o)

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  7. Love your new header - I wish I could grow lupins but the slugs and snails always make short work of them. Well done Andy for tackling the allotment - it just shows how quickly nature reclaims what is hers. Have a lovely break with your Mum and sisters.

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