This bed is SO PRETTY and I am so pleased with it. My one ambition today was to weed some of it. I managed maybe a metre-and-a-half sq? Broke myself. But I chose was the worst bit of it, the rest is less grass, more chickweed and it holds no fear.

State of my so called "lawn".

I reckon I need another 2 sessions out there to have got the whole bed done. A few days& #39; rest, and I& #39;ll do the next session.

The tulips are on their second year with no sign of flagging.

After I& #39;ve finished the bit of bed I& #39;m working on now (I& #39;ll need a few days rest and then I& #39;ll go out and do the next session), I& #39;m going to skip doing anything to my "rockery" (that& #39;s this pic).

In many ways that will be the easiest - yet also the fiddliest bit to do. It is mostly planted up already. It can wait.

The next Big Project is to turn THIS into a bed like the one at the top of this thread. All grass and thistles now. It& #39;ll take me a while. Watch me. #gardening

One very heartening thing: the bit of bed I& #39;ve reclaimed at the top of the thread was utterly riddled with bindweed. I was pulling it out of there like a fucking spaghetti farmer, double hand fulls at every twitch of the spade, and no sign of it lessening as I dug deeper.