Me and my bezzer worked our fucking arses off today and have got the garden looking as good as it could again.
Widened and weeded the flower beds and cut a curve into one corner of the lawn then mowed it.
Composted all the failed romanesco's
sunflowers, old pots of tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes, MELONS
and squashes (with all the savalgable compost going onto the flower beds and the strawberries).
Cut back the lavender.
Emptied the old compost bin (tricky business involving sticking the top half into the new bin, then lifting the old one off and moving the good stuff into trenches dug into the old cauli and pea beds using a huge plastic sheet). Weeded the strawberry bed and moved the thyme and the rosemary from the other raised bed (now empty and also topped up with lots of the spent veg compost - going to put flowers into it this time around) into the front with the other herbs.
Also moved the bench up onto the balcony, put all the empty pots etc neatly into the greenhouse and gave the whole place a thorough sweeping.
It was baking today too, so also got what will doubtless be the last sun tan of the year.
Next jobs are to put up some more wire for the jasmine and clematis, plant a lot more flowers/shrubby/bushy things in the beds and do some pots for the balcony with more 'climbing things'....
Absolutely KNACKERED but well pleased with our work, too....we sat and had tea and fags when we'd finished and spent half an hour massively congratulating ourselves on our sterling effort, lol.
Niiiiice chillis, foggers - they shit all over mine, tbf!