New Experience

It’s been a while since my last post and something happened with the garden this season that hasn’t happened before and I bet I’m not alone.

Normally around about late September or October you’ll get a grey but basically dry day, and you’ll know that the Indian Summer isn’t going to happen and you’ll batten down the hatches for winter. For us that means covering the BBQ’s, fire pit, chiminea’s and swing chair and putting all the garden toys and games into the garage or summerhouse and clearing the lawn of all the normal bits and pieces that in summer just live there. A couple of hours of work.

Autumn 2011 wasn’t like that, if you’ll recall the mercury hit about 27 or 28 on the 2nd of October. The grey but basically dry day never came, or at least by the time it did we were well into Autumn, nearly winter and the weather was so mild anyway there seemed little point.

Then we went skiing for a week and in that week it snowed, heavily apparently, but even that was short lived and upon inspection the garden doesn’t look much worse for wear except maybe a bit of light rusting on the metal objects. The weather report last night said more snow is expected but I’m certainly not doing it now, the weather was so nice two weeks ago the lawn got its first mow of the year.

So it has been a bit erratic but I’m not complaining, we have all been able to enjoy our gardens a lot more through late autumn, winter and early spring than at any other time I can remember and there has been less work involved as well. Here’s hoping we never have to batten down the hatches again.