Spring

Yuzu is a Japanese citrus. It has culinary uses as do the limes, lemons and Kashmiri lime that I grow out in my front patio. It seems to have a micro climate and my fig is started to bud again. The vine is still dormant as is the olive.

galen what does it taste like? No micro climate in my garden. On the South Downs so winds blows like the clappers both from the sea and east Brrr.

Spent morning cutting back the bamboo - nice lot of canes for staking now.

Think it is too early for nematodes that I have bought- they are in the fridge. Temperature has to be consistently above 5c - ground that is - so think the nights are too cold for that yet. Have hostas to protect they worked well last year when I tried them for the first time.

Wish they would put up the fence - dog dug a hole in next doors garden this morning whilst my back was turned.

Spent a happy hour watching someone else give my 2 lawns their first proper cut of the year.
Our garden is going to be a problem this year as H now has no interest and presently I am not fit enough. We do have neighbours who have gardeners but one is too busy to take anymore work on and what I have seen of the other firm doesn't fill me with confidence.
We had quite a bit made easy care 2 years ago but it comes very expensive buying slate and stone and then large containers and ornamental plants.

AgeUk used to have people volunteering to help older people with their garden for a modest fee - don't know whether they still do and a local school had boys doing the same sort of thing for a part of their DofE. Might be worth a couple of phone calls?

I want to pay someone to come and at least cut the grass once a week, but husband won't give in - "We can do it!"
Gardeners here charge about £15 per hour - how much in the UK?