More Stumpy Success

Action Man ignored his doctor's advice and took the oleander stump out today. That big steel bar? Apparently it's a fencing bar. Yeah, he just used that, like he was uprooting a turnip.

Meanwhile, I carted away 6 wheelbarrows full of rocks from around the stump of the spiny palm tree and patiently began digging my encircling trench. When it was about a foot deep, the heavens opened. I abandoned the job. The stump will still be there next week! Maybe wet clay will be easier to chip through than dry clay.

Shopping: Spent some more cash. Jute twine. Garden wire. 4L of Seasol. A watering can. Total: $31. That brings our running total to $122.

I seasol-ed the finger lime and the mandarin trees. Someone remind me to do it again in a fortnight, OK?

Maybe I need a gardening calendar. Would that make me a total garden nerd, then?

Blunt Tool Put to Poisonous Use

No, I'm not talking about Cheney. I'm talking about the blunt pruning saw that I tried to use to hack off the multi-armed medusa that was the oleander (now, officially mine to destroy as I please! Muahaha!)

Most of my gardening tools were still in transit or packed in boxes. And I could only find one gardening glove. But I couldn't wait any longer.

Boy, do I wish I'd at least gone out and bought a new saw.

By the end, I was just cutting through the bark and then snapping the branches off with brute force.

Action Man asked me to leave a mtre or so to help with the stump removal later on.

And...voila!

Who knew there was a letterbox behind there?