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Gardening Experiences Archived Articles |
Gardening Experiences Archived Articles written by Mike Spencer
Gardening Experiences November 2008 Article
"Back to the lawn ......... obviously other work was going on whilst
waiting for the weeds to succumb but when they were dead we dug the
ground, cleared the roots, stones, etc and levelled it to the best of
our ability. Off again to the ‘Vivero’ to buy grass seed that we
liberally scattered onto the lawn area and covered in ‘sustrato’ or
compost as we Brits know it."
Gardening Experiences October 2008 Article
"Firstly it was get rid of the weeds or “malas hierbas” as we came to
know and hate them. I had been rather impressed seeing our Spanish
neighbours on their land armed with large back-pack pressure sprayers
and had bought one. No point in having the weapon without the
ammunition so I also had a 5 litre container of what I was assured was
a vicious weed killer."
Gardening Experiences September 2008 Article
"Let your wife loose in the local shopping mall and
you end up with a small dent in your credit card, let her loose in
southern Spain and you end up with a small cortijo together with 5000
square metres of rock, scrub and weeds – well not weeds as us Brits
know them, more the sort of plants that eventually developed into
triffids in John Wyndham’s famous book ..... and masses of them."
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