Gardener To The Big House
The head gardeners diary.
23 March 2023
Barge on the River Aire
18 February 2023
Second Year Geraniums
14 February 2023
Some Pruning Work.
Today I have been doing some pruning work at the hall.
The first job was to give the Pyracantha a bit of a trim. I removed all the long growth and then tidied up the arms. There was nothing to be tied in so I was spared that job.
25 January 2023
Christmas Tomatoes. (Month One).
If you remember, just before Christmas I did a sowing of Tomato seeds, well as promised here is a monthly follow up picture so you can track their progress. I got quite a lot of the seeds to germinate but just chose to bring on six, one of which has since died. But thats okay as I only really need a couple of plants.
15 January 2023
DIY Paneling Job
10 January 2023
Back to work.
7 January 2023
Timothy - Michael's Shoe Tree.
A couple of entries past I showed a picture of the discarded christmas trees, in fact the picture below. Welllll! The head gardener went and had one of his brainwaves, take a look at the second picture to reveal all.
Timothy - Michael showing off his brill idea. Apparently he got fed up of tripping over badly parked shoes and boots when herding his toys so he went and invented a shoe tree. I have it in the garage and it is proving to be very useful. There is even a place on the top to hang my hat.5 January 2023
This Mornings Sunrise.
Back To The Future.
Yesterday we took down all the Christmas trees and decorations and gave the place a tidy up. I think the official time for doing so is Friday but Vicki is busy towards the end of the week so we thought it would be good to get tidy for the weekend. As the trees were starting to lose their needle quite badly we cut the branches off were they stud and bagged them up and it worked well and saved messing up the whole house dragging the trees through it.
29 December 2022
The Return Of Ratty.
Today has been another lazy day, mostly on account of still being mostly one handed. Also this morning we had a friend called Pat come to visit so I was being sociable. I noticed during one of my trips to the garage for logs that it appears that the rat is back. I caught it pilfering the apples a few weeks back so I moved them out and the rat has not been seen since but as I say I've noticed that there is evidence of a return so the trap has been baited and set so we will see what happens next.
I took this picture of the sunrise whilst on this morning's dog walk. This is as it came and not enhanced with any kind of filters.
I sowed some herb seeds a couple of weeks ago so I was pleased to see the Parsley has germinated. It's actually for work but as there is no gardener there at the moment I brought them home to look after.