Thursday 11 April 2024

Spring Clean Up

 I got some help this weekend


Pruning the thorny white bougainvillia



Nels and Poppi replanting celery.  We will have celery coming out of our ears soon if we don't start eating it.  Celery, the leafy kind, called selino here, is sold with the roots still attached.  We have 3 pots of the stuff now. This 'pot' is an old washing up bowl.  It grows very easily, as does the parsley which has turned into a bush

K got the annual clean up of his back yard over with. An able bodied Albanian lad did an excellent job.  He filled up 14 huge black rubbish bags with weeds and plastic rubbish hidden in the jungle.




Before



After

The front yard is my domain.  The garden is still nice and green.  The clover/sorrel is starting to wilt a little but the nasturtiums have begun to flower, yellow and orange blooms, the mint is taking over the bed by the entrance .  And there is no rubbish in my territory.  
What was left of the big winter wood pile has been taken to the back of the house, and stacked.  Slowly I'm sweeping and cleaning chairs, tables and shutters ready to arrange our summer sitting place




The front roadway should be weed-whacked but in the meantime the knee-high weeds have been cut back.  In a month's time they'll probably be knee-high again.  Unless this heat continues and dries them all out.

Now that wall needs white washing for Easter





24 comments:

  1. What a neat job. I am surprised that celery does so well in your climate Linda. It's originally a marsh plant and if you don't give it enough water it bolts and goes to seed.

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    1. I've noticed celery needs a lot of water. It has started going to seed. I cut all the tops the other day. I don't think it will last when it's really hot even with plenty of water.

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  2. Wow. Those Before and After photos are impressive.
    I gather that you are now sufficiently recovered after your recent surgery to start slowly sweeping and cleaning?

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    1. Huge difference. K hates yard cleaning and a lot of his treasures end up out there. It does my head in.
      Im taking it slowly. A little sweeping, a little weeding. No major work yet

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  3. Looks fabulous. Isn't it great when you get a fit young man to help

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    1. He did a good job. Better than others in years gone by. I'm glad it's done and looking clean. For a while

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  4. Before and after, what a contrast, well done the young lad. Nice to have help from your granddaughters too.

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    1. Those two photos really show the difference. The weeds seem to have grown much taller this winter

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  5. Great job. Lovely to be preparing for summer. A storm is covering the whole country at the moment and it is miserable. Still warm.

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    1. There's no rain forecast here for another week. I dont want a storm but a good shower would be great

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  6. A busy hive of activity at your place.
    I was thinking of hiring a school age person to weed one of the flower gardens. But they’re not into hard work around here. Would rather play video games and ask mum and dad for what they need.
    Yes I’m that old woman lol
    It’s looking fantastic. Well done to you all

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    1. I think most young kids here are the same. It's easier to pay someone for a days work. Here its easy to find a gardener or a handy man. Maybe not so easy where you are

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  7. Summer is less than 2 months away now; I can hardly wait.

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    1. Yes! Our first visitors from downunder arrive at the beginning of June. Not so far away now

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  8. Here too I am in the middle of spring cleaning, my daughter and granddaughter wanted to come and paint the door, I told them to wait until after the bombing by the Iranians. We may not need it.

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    1. Hell, your comment says so much more than youve written down. Hoping that attack never comes

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  9. That is a remarkably cleared back yard (doesn't K have conniptions worrying that something valuable might get swept up in the clearance?) I think I prefer the mystery and possibilities of treasure in the green overgrown back yard however.

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    1. So many hidden treasures! Most of them plastic or the colour of rust

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  10. Looks like you guys had a huge cleanup there, it's all going to look great. I don't know if you can get it there but here we can buy miniature rainbow spinach, it grows all year and it's quite sweet.

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  11. Thank you Linda for thinking of me. Iam ok so far.

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    1. You're always ony mind at times like this. Thank goodness you're ok

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  12. Wow, you have been busy !
    So much to do after a long winters nap, but your hard work has made such a difference.
    Kudos to the team.
    Jo

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  13. It feels good to get the big jobs done!

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