Dyke 2010

This week heralded the beginning of this year's mammoth task of keeping the dyke manageable. As I spent way too much time last year on the dyke - bordering on the obsessive, I've decided to only keep the garden side of the dyke mowed... as well as a foot or so on the verge beside the road. The bloke down the road from here keeps it this way an although the road side of the dyke is left to nature, it looks like it was left deliberately instead of looking totally neglected. I have the longest dyke in the street - in total measuring well over 100m and compared to most households down here, I'm the only person working on it. I'm working full time this year too.. and have a greenhouse full of crops to tend to.... and have half an acre of landscaping to finish... and have over an acre of lawns and nearly half a mile of flower beds to attend to.

**News Flash** Just been informed that my new 10'x10' metal lockable shed will be delivered this Saturday afternoon... This will be going down at the end of the garden, beside the big gap in the fence at the back of the greenhouse. The fence will soon be filled in down there as part of the big landscaping plan already well underway. The weekend before last, I hired a minidigger (yet another digger!!) - a really small one this time to dig out the path to link the path at the back of the summerhouse with the path at the back of the greengouse - through a series of twists, turns, bends, raised (mountainlets)(soon to be planted with groundcovering shrubs. and trees. Moving the soil was so much easier this time round than the time Rob did it in December. It was dry for one thing.