This was todays project. Got the idea to use old wine bottles for the edging from Pinterest. I really wanted to use them to make the path, but there were too many tree roots in the way to be able to dig in deep enough to set them in the ground firmly enough, never mind, I'm quite pleased with this.

I'm not planting my potatoes yet as we have more cold weather and possibly snow forecast for the weekend, but I have put some earlies in pots in the mini greenhouse, also a pot of garlic and some nasturtians. 

Hope spring comes soon.

Today is officially the first day of spring and the sun was shining the bitter wind of yesterday had blown itself out and the snow is just a memory.

To celebrate the turning of the season I put the lights back on the archway.

Then I started making a new section of fence out of some old bed slats which I had given me and have been collecting dust under my bed ever since.

That's where it is going.

And there it is in place

Looks better from this side.

More snow today and bitterly cold , winter is definitely putting up a fight this year. No gardening for me this weekend. 

The wooden chairs in the back garden are looking a bit sorry for themselves, they are green with algae and the birds have been using them as a public convenience. So the project for the weekend is operation chair. 

A quick rub down and two coats of Cuprinol later they are looking much happier. 

Roll on summer I am ready 😊

A couple of snowdrops in the pot, and some daffodils in with the lavender, spring is coming to my back garden at last.😁

Meanwhile work is progressing on the new  bit of garden. Both compost bins have been moved but the multiple trips back and forth with their contents have made the path a muddy mess, so I placed an old door for the wheel barrow to run on.

The vegetable patch is dug, but the ground is so claggy I can do nothing with it yet except put loads of muck and compost on and hope the worms do their job and work it in. I've bought a load of seed potatoes to start things off, but I think I went a bit mad abd bought too many. I think the earlies and second earlies can go in the ground and the maincrop will have to go in tubs, then I can replant with other thi gs when I've harvested the earlies.

I put my saw horse out there and spent a pleasant hour in the sun today cutting wood in the work area.

And the sign saying ' Eileens garden' is on the gate.

Looking at the garden furniture, I decided it was looking a bit in need of some TLC. so eager to be doing something to the garden I decided to get the paint brush out and give it a well deserved facelift.

Not wanting to wait for the weather I brought the first chair indoors. Big mistake. The old paint was all peeling off and the aluminium underneath was oxidising causing a massive dust cloud while I was rubbing it down.

The weather was better when I started the table so the preparation on that and the other chair took place outside.

When I did them last time only a small amount of paint flaked off and I did both chairs and the table in an afternoon, only using one tin of paint. This time they are considerably older and have endured a whole lot more bad weather and most of the paint came off, every time I thought all the loose was off there was some more popped up saying what about me. It took almost a week to get them done one item at a time, two coats of paint. I had got the same paint as before, but either they've changed the colour or the old paint had faded considerably, it was quite a shock when I put the first brushful on and instead of a subdued red lead colour it was a vibrant pillarbox red 😀.

But at last they're finished and I'm getting used to the colour, and I think picking out the roses with gold just finishes them off.

They certainly brightened up the corner of the garden this morning.

Yay, my fence is up.

Time to start planning the new bit of garden.

Took the nest boxes down to clean today and they fell apart 😕. One had a nest of leaves in with a lovely little indentation in it, think a little mouse must have been using it over winter. The other one had no sign of a nest but a lot of droppings in the bottom.

So this afternoon I went into Cardigan and bought two more boxes.

And put them up when I got back.

Saw a sparrow on the telephone wire earlier with a beak full of sheep wool so looks like they'really starting to make there nests. Hope they like the new boxes. 

Ok, I've gone a bit mad with the camera but I was quite excited about this visitor to my garden this morning. A Fieldfare jealously guarding a piece of apple against all comers.

Mrs. Blackbird is thinking "that was put out for me".

Fieldfare doesn't care, possession is 9/10ths of the law.

A Collared Dove comes visiting,

with friends.

Still guarding his apple.

Meanwhile, in the front garden Mr. Blackbird is having a feast.

Fieldfare has finished his meal,

and flown off.

Bye bye Fieldfare.