Lay of the Land
Happy Christmas Everybody
Just a short blog this week to wish all my current and future customers the very best of Christmases, and wish you all the very best for 2012. Thanks for being...
Just a few thanks!
We’re gradually making progress with the Garden Centre now, albeit a lot of hard graft still to be done. A massive thanks to eldest son Peter, without whom we’d be...
A good week for Lay of the Land
Gosh! Another week passed, and it was all a blur. The first full week of Rob and I working together, side by side, and all in all things went pretty...
On feeling inspired.
Everyone needs a little inspiration from time to time. This last couple of weeks have been as wet, cold and miserable as any since I started my new venture, and...
Now the hard work really begins!
Red letter day on Wednesday this week. We found out we’d been granted change of use permission by the planners, and can now work towards opening our “pocket” Lay of...
Autumn Jobs
Another busy week behind me. This week I’ve been doing a lot of autumn tidying for customers: Cutting back perennial plants Autumn weed and feed on lawns Raking up the...
A new garden shed
This summer (as Dad had a little more time on his hands, or so we thought) it was decided that the old garden shed, which as you can see from...
The Giggleswick Gardener – Lessons Learned.
A few lessons we’ve learned along the way. Good tools are essential for a start, but good doesn’t always mean most expensive. A cheap pair of secateurs may last a season...
A busy summer in Settle and Giggleswick!
Wow – what happened to summer then? I rather expected my first year as a gardener to be punctuated by spells of inactivity as I built up my customer base,...