My Tots100 Home Club garden challenge was always going to be a tough one. What with it being used as a football pitch for my boys, the grass had given up and left town, just look at the sorry state of it before. So I asked the experts at Homebase how to deal with my bare patches of lawn on their Facebook App and they came back and said that the only way to get it looking tip top again was to either patch it with turf or reseed it and try and keep the boys off it.
We decided to reseed it, as September is the ideal time for this and purchased Some Patch Magic and have told the boys that it is off limits. The fact that it is due to rain for a couple of days will help too, as will the hopefull warm patch at the end of the week.
One of our other big issues is the fact that the boys balls foil our attempts to introduce solar lighting in to the garden. They have broken every lamp we have introduced. So when I saw that Homebase had solar lanterns you could fence mount, we decided to give it a try.
I have to say they were a doddle to install and we have placed them around the fence and one at a lower level above the boys picnic table. They came complete with the screws. They are a soft light, so create a lovely glow in the garden and are above ball height so will hopefully stay the course!
Now there was supposed to be a lot more going on in the garden, including relocating the swings and wirglygigg, but the following happened when I slipped on a ball! I am hoping that it is just a bad sprain, but I think I am developing a name for myself and becoming a liability to myself.
But I am sure you can see that there has been vast improvements made and we managed to get 8 lanterns up, some balk chipping laid where we had removed the playhouse and also topped up the soil in all the raised beds.
Boys and gardens are a tricky mix! We have exactly the same problems, plus a dog and BMX skidding practise. I might give the patch stuff a go. As for the lights – ooh, fab. They’re on my garden wish list. Now get well soon and now we’re by the seaside on the other side of the country maybe we can get together in term time! xxx
Oh Jen you are worse than me when it comes to injuring oneself. I hope it isn’t too badly hurt xoxo
Oh dear, you are having a hard time. Boys balls, almost as bad as lego to stand on! Hope it gets better soon. Juliex
Ouch, but glad you are on the mend. The garden is looking fab x
Oh I love the idea of fence mounted solar lights…I’m stealing that idea 🙂 Hope you’re feeling better now xx
Liz » They are fab, we have had them up a week and they are lovely, they just give a small glow to the area
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