Property News · August 4, 2023

The joy of gardensitting – very little work and a lot of reward


You’ll have an over-eager list of instructions to follow, but if in doubt follow these golden rulesAh, the great British summer. Perhaps you’re lucky enough to escape it all with a holiday, or maybe you’re staying at home and have volunteered to look after someone else’s garden. Depending on whose garden, this can be a holiday of its own. Other people’s gardens can offer plenty, novelty chief among them. If you don’t have access to your own open space, looking after another’s garden is akin to borrowing a dog for the weekend, offering you all of the good bits (lazing around, dining alfresco, counting butterflies) with none of the bad (mollusc-based concerns, tidying sheds, fox poo). If you do have a garden, someone else’s can offer opportunity for stealing ideas as well as new perspectives on your own. Perhaps your beds aren’t doing too badly, after all.If your pal’s enough of a gardener to enlist you to look after their space, chances are you’ll have an over-eager list of instructions to follow. If not, these are the crucial ones: if it’s been dry, water the containers, the veg patch and the roses; don’t go mad watering the beds or the lawn. Make sure you’re watering the soil, rather than the leaves, and do so either in the morning or the evening – anything done in the middle of the day will evaporate before it hits the roots. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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