{"id":320,"date":"2007-03-25T08:49:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T08:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/back-to-work-in-the-garden\/"},"modified":"2007-03-25T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T08:49:05","slug":"back-to-work-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/back-to-work-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to work in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather is warming up, the clocks have gone forward so it is time to start work in the garden again.<br \/>\nMorgan and I had a productive day yesterday. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lawns (if you can call them that) have been mowed. They&#8217;ve taken a bit of abuse over the winter from being waterlogged and from a pesky little mole and they aren&#8217;t looking great, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll recover.<\/li>\n<li>The willow and white poplar were cut right back as these will hopefully become a hedge along the edge of the garden.<\/li>\n<li>All the beds were edged, forked over and enriched with compost from our compost bins and the plants were all cut back and tidied up.<\/li>\n<li>The compost bins were forked through and sorted out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most things seem to have survived the winter, although the cold snap we had last week was quite a shock to the system to the already shooting Clematis and Gunnera. Now that things are tidy it is time to start getting a little creative out there. The first creative job will be to create a border around the deck out the front and fill it with bedding plants. As usual there are great plans for the garden, but no doubt it will be time-consuming enough just keeping on top of the grass!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully now that it has had some attention it will start to come to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather is warming up, the clocks have gone forward so it is time to start work in the garden again. Morgan and I had a productive day yesterday. The lawns (if you can call them that) have been mowed. 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