A guess it's a prologue

To bring me up to speed, this is a brief summery of what has happened in the garden recently.


Lawn mowing.  This is something I'm happy to do as it gives me an hour or so to talk to myself in my head.  We have a small strip in front of the property, (I do the neighbours too, as she is getting on a little), then the rest of the front garden, and then the rear lawn.


The lawn in the front is very mossy, as is the very back of the back lawn.  I'm assuming it is because this gets less sunshine and holds moisture better.  There are also many dandelions in the back lawn.


For the past couple of months I have been attempting to grown so plants from seed.  Salvia's, Foxgloves, Petunia's and Dahlia's.  Last weekend I erected a mini greenhouse, the Salvia's and Dahlia's have now been put in here.  The Foxgloves and the Petunia's have been a little less successful, and are still on the propagator indoors.


I also purchased the Cottage Garden Collection, from Thompson & Morgan.  The arrived last week and were potted up on Monday and straight in the mini-greenhouse.  I don't know if this is the right thing to do, but I do know that knocking them all over the floor the following day, when going to water them is not the best idea.  I guess these things happen.


Also on Monday, I decided to fork the far right corner of the back garden.  I want to turn it into a some sort of productive bed, but it is in constant shade so I shall have to be careful what I put here.  Jazz, our fat bellied silk furred lady cat, thinks that I spent a good hour making a lovely latrine for her.  I'd rather her do it there than in the house, but it is rude for her to sit there waiting for me to finish raking and as soon as my back is turned...


When 'starting gardening' last year, I dug this with a spade to find that 10 years ago when the previous council pirates, er, I mean tenants, lived in the house, they must have decided that this was a good place to bury treasure.  Treasure, that is if you count asbestos as treasure.  The majority of this was removed, but the occasional piece rears its ugly head.  Although I did find a silver teaspoon too, so maybe there is a hidden hoard further down.