Weekend Gardening

I've rearranged the front of the garden and found an ugly plank of cement to use as a retaining wall.  I'm trying to use only that which is already in the garden.  I've moved all the plants at the front to places further back in the garden to make room for a raised bed where I shall do my best to grow (read: kill) vegetables.

Probably another weekends worth of work before it ready for seeds. My poor rough, blistered hands. 

Gardening

So I've spent all of three days work in the garden trying to hack back all the wildness the previous renter's garden negligence.

Last november I spent about 4 hours on the last warm day pulling down the ivy which had decided to take control of several trees and creating quite a dark corner of the garden over the grass. The removal of said ivy really brightened up the place.

Last Sunday afternoon I used my shiny new brown wheelie bin to dispose of all the ivy i cut down and proceeded to conduct a serious ground cleaning of squirrel planted trees, dead bushes and weeds.  That left the garden looking just so:

Aww, snowdrops.

mussles with pasta, potato and brocc.

Tonight for dinner: Mussles from Marks and Spenser.

The mussles came in their own cream sauce so it was easy to throw a couple cloves of garlic and let them simmer.
In another pan I had pasta starting, I sliced up a potato rather thinly and chopped some purple sprouting broccoli, then threw them in the pasta water to cook up.

Took the mussles out of their shells, reduced the cream sauce, dash of pepper. Drained the cooked pasta et al. and mixed together with the cream and mussles and presto: Fabulously tasty.