And life can resume...

Monday 28 April 2014

You may have noted some serious lack of blogging (and commenting) lately - we've been busy. It all started with our holiday back in March. I said to Mr MiH that I did not mind waking up in the not so nice rental holiday flat because of the view. When at home, we could have a nice garden view, but to be honest it was a bit of a state. 

Forward a couple of weeks we were finding inspiration for small gardens and making a rough design of what it could be. 


Mr MiH believes in doing it himself (everything - even building a shed). All good but it takes time - sometimes a looonnnggg time. So I said ok for DIY but we take a week off and we do it seriously. My parents came over to look after Baby MiH for the first part (not easy when all he want to do is get involved) an he was at nursery for the second part (the rainy, muddy part). 



Who knew it wa so hard to clean up a garden and make it bare again! Of course, it has not helped that our garden is loaded with pebbles and half of my time was spent 'purifying the earth'. 


Mr MiH has goy rid of the lawn, again for such a small patch, it took forever - well 3 days. But on Sunday, it was finally done, and new lawn is on, green and healthy!  


So phase 1 is over, except that you cannot tread on the lawn for 6 weeks and it needs a lot of attention during that time. Now is time to take care of the flower beds and hedging - my favourite part! All ready for the summer. 

Do not worry, this blog is not about to become a gardening one - but as this has been my 'craft' for the past 8 days, and I am really proud of Mr MiH work (I am only his aide when it comes to gardening) I thought I would share it here! Some of my knits have progressed but more on that in te course of the week. 

12 comments:

  1. Oh your garden looks great! Amazing what a lot of work and some fresh green can do! Will you also get baby MiH a sandbox? Personally I would not mind some more posts of you on your gardening progress. I´m a gardening enthusiast myself with only a veranda and some raised beds to play in the dirt and plant. If I had your garden I would probably plant some blackberry bushes (the one kind without thornes) and some strawberries and cherry tomatoes for baby MiH on the sides. :-)

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  2. What a difference the new lawn made to your garden space! I must say, I am impressed - I have rarely managed to keep a plant alive for more than a few days, apart from the weeds on our little "terrace" {if it can really be called that} so to me, this kind of handiwork is beyond impressive. Well done, Mr. MiH!
    xox,
    Cee

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  3. The sod looks lovely! Doing any sort of home renovation project is A LOT of work. I'm always amazed by how much effort goes into something like this! But, it is worth it to have a space you enjoy and look forward to spending time in!

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  4. Gardening is good, honest work. I can imagine the self I satisfaction you will all feel when it's 100% complete. It's looking great.

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  5. How fun! I don't mind peeks into your yard at all. Happy gardening

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  6. I've really enjoyed watching the day to day transformations!

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  7. How exciting Nat! Beautiful photos, good luck with the rest of it :o)

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  8. Your lawn looks beautiful already! How nice to have a little green space of your own.

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  9. I enjoyed your gardening post! look forward to seeing the flowers

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  10. What a wonderful garden nook this is becoming! Awesome work there, lady. :)

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  11. Very nice to see you back!
    By the way, I'm back to London in May, maybe this round it would finally work out with a meet up?

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