What a difference a day (or two!) makes!

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The sunny and dry weather continued over the weekend, with the added bonus of the wind being less chilly than on Friday.  I had another full day on Saturday working mostly in the back garden, but must admit that by Sunday I was starting to flag somewhat so only did a couple of hours in the morning!

My first job was to yank out the handful of weeds in the bed between the garden shed and the log store.  As I mentioned previously there was quite literally barely even a handful of weeds to be honest, so that little job was soon done.  I think it took longer to haul all my stuff up to the bed than the task itself actually took 😄

I started with the raspberries and blackberries in the tubs.  Considering the soil in the tubs came from the infamous soil mountain, which as you may recall was chock-a-block with weeds of many kinds, there was barely anything to pull out at all!

I gave them all a slight trim to tidy them up, then just fluffed-up the soil and sprinkled over some chicken manure pellets.  Adrian is going to get the leaf blower out at some point to clear out the leaves that have gathered behind the tubs. 

I've been pleasantly surprised at the lack of weeds at the moment ~ it's certainly made tidying up the beds much easier and quicker.

I trimmed the escallonia in the galvanised tub to a slightly better shape.  I planted two little trailing fuchsias, Pink Galore, with the escallonia but forgot to dig them up last autumn.  You can imagine how surprised I was to see that they appear to have some tiny green shoots on them despite being out all winter!  It will be interesting to see if they do indeed grow again ~ I'll keep you posted 😊

Everything in the water bowl bed seems happily settled.  A job I really must get done this year is to repair the poor hare's front legs 😳  I took the tops off the pottery toadstools over winter so that they didn't get damaged by the high winds we get.

I still need to sort out the fountain in the water bowl as it's come adrift from the wires I attached to hold it in one place.  I couldn't face putting my hands in that very cold water, though, so left it for another day 😉

Ta-daa!  Adrian has now given the old arbour seat (or what's left of it LOL) three coats of wood stain, so it's looking very smart.  Now we've got to do some research on what will be the best growhouse to fit within it, as we've decided we're definitely not up to making it into one ourselves 😄