My poor aching back.

[Gruntfuttock]

Although all my back garden is lawn there was a weed patch, so I found it irresistible to dig it over and tidy up the edges where it meets the lawn. As I'm only here for a year or so I don't want to spend too much money on it so I bought a mixed bag of daff. and narcissus bulbs for £10.00 and planted them yesterday, there must have been about 500 bulbs.

Then to finish off I planted a pack of 3 Allium Christophii bulbs which I embarrassingly won in the raffle at the first meeting of the local gardening society I attended. We had those in the park and I will always try to fit them in to any garden I design.

In the spring I'll grow some annual seeds and fill the bed with colour.

Well, you couldn't expect me to go another year without any gardening, could you.

[kHT]

Oh you poor thing! I knew you would be out in the dirt as one finds that is so relaxing
even as a renter! You should of put them in pots and sunk them that way so you can take
them with after your year is up? Photos in the spring please!

[eastwood2007]

I know what you mean, Mr. G! We lived out of state (Colorado) for a year back in 2000. I had never been a renter before...even though I wasn't into gardening like I am now, I still had to fertilize and clean up the lawn and reshape/edge the beds that were there. Just couldn't stand it!

Funny thing is, that I think living in Colorado actually fueled my gardening fever. For those of you that don't know, parts of Co are arid desert-like places with only decomposed granite for 'soil.' Just about the only thing that will grow there are yuccas. I missed my gardening so much, that when I got back to Kansas is when I started going crazy....

Wishing you the best!

BTW, do you miss working at the park?

[Gruntfuttock]

I enjoyed working in the park, I had to be there at 7:30 weekday mornings which was a jolt to my system, but I liked that time of the morning. The dog walkers were very friendly and we would chat. Once I got into a routine it was really good. The boss left me to do what I wanted and I ended up ordering him around which he didn't seem to mind. Tough if he did, he was a lazy sod.

I wasn't sorry to leave though, I had had enough and with winter coming there wasn't much more to do for a few months. I had turned round a tired looking garden and it was so nice to get compliments from the general public and the top bosses, I've never had that before.

I haven't worked since the middle of September, but preparing to start the company has been tedious in the extreme.

[Midnight Reiter Too]

Did you take photos of your daffodils?