What an amazing thing rain is!
All of a sudden my grass, which had previously thought it was the middle of August and apparently gone on holiday, has suddenly sprung into life and started to grow like there’s no tomorrow. Which is all good news for my composting efforts! I’ve just been looking at some fantastic new wooden composting bins to replace my rather tacky and very ugly black plastic ones. There’s a superb 470 litre wooden one which I really fancy but I may have to go for something a little cheaper, such as the Hazel box which costs less than £45.
Now that the lawn has got some moisture on it, I’m thinking about giving it a feed. The Wormcast Organic Lawn Reviver looks an excellent product, given the suffering my grass has had recently. I suppose I’ll also need to edge. My efforts with a strimmer, though highly entertaining, were not met with unanimous acclamation by Mrs VZ, who has informed me, in no uncertain terms that a better edge will be achieved by using an Edger. Ho hum..
Virtually all of our free time in April, including the entire Easter period was spent weeding and removing the curse of our garden, Bindweed, from the beds. The much needed rain, though bringing much joy to all of our plants is also bringing untold benefits to those pesky weeds. We used all of our composted mulch on a relatively small, OK TINY, area so now we need to buy in Mulch for the rest of it. Being unimpressed with woodchip & bark, we came across Strulch, an organic mineralised straw based Mulch, at our recent visit to Alnwick. Aside from it being eco-friendly, it also looks great (side by side with the other mulches in the
Also need to do something about those pesky slugs and snails which also come out in the rain. I thought this Slug and Snail Trapper was great, that’ll teach the blighters.
Ah, well, back to work for now.
Peter Van Zelst is the principal of innovative-internet-marketing.com, Online Marketing Specialists.
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