First post. The gardens, front and back.

Hi David, hope you are well... This blog is primarily so that you can see the progress of the gardens. I'll post pics of what I have done here and you can either comment or email me with comments if you need to...

However, it is also so my mum can see what I'm doing. You see, she used to make me and my brother and sister (Dad refused) help her in the garden and we used to hate it. We much prefered destroying the garden with the football.

So mum, this is also for you. I am gardening now. Please feel free to comment and suggest....

A bit of background (sorry David, you obviously know all this)....

The house where I work has two gardens, one at the front, one at the back. The front was a 4 x 5 metre overgrown mess when I first saw it. This has now been cleared (mostly - there is a type of weed that grows back at a phenomenal speed. Can't remember its name but I already think of it as my nemesis). So the front is a bit of a blank canvas...

The back garden is really nice. About ten metres across and 30(ish) metres long. It's got flower beds down each side and slab steps leading up to a paved section at the back where the shed is. The flower beds are full of the nemesis, so some work to do there. Generally, there's a lot of tidying up and clearing to be done.

I'm about half way up both beds on the weeding and have some grass seed to put down. If either of you (or anyone else that reads this), has any advice, it is always welcome.

Anyway, am enjoying being outside, made friends with a robin and a blackbird, who appreciated the worms I was turning up (sorry worms) and I get the pleasure of a break when Tommi comes out to have a cigarette or the lovely Syn makes me a cup of tea...

Well, that's it for the first post - more to come....