Chapter 2: Day Of Action
Start The Work
Incidently one of my neighbours next door kept quite a nice garden both back and front of thier house and that gave me a bit of inspiSo one day in August 2015 i decided to do something about it. ration. My brother Roger who lives with me helped me to literatelly just crop all the overgrown foliage and weeds right down to ground level. I obtained some of those council green recycle bags, and filled them all up with the cut down weeds. We must have used about 30 in all, it was that bad.
The Old Shed
Next we have to empty the old shed of all the accumulated rubbish and pile it all at the front of the garden, with all the rest of the other accumulated rubbish. Now you have to picture the scene that nobody has set foot in that shed for years. Foliage from a nearby tree growing in my neighbours garden had spread into the shed and it was sprouting out of the roof. I know that there is actually 2 old televisions, 2 chest of drawers ,2 old bike frames, a rusty old lawnmower and an assortment of objects that had long been forgotten. This is one of those occasions where you have to roll your sleeves up and take the bull by the horns, an old english saying, and just drag everything outside.
Inside The Shed
garden in a We had to use a pair of heavy duty snips to cut away the branches that had grown inside. When we had finished we were able to step fully inside and then we could see how rotten and decayed it had become. We then set about dismanteling the shed. Actually it literally fell apart because it was so neglected. It had so much woodworm that there was not much holding it together. All the parts were piled with the rest of the debris . I can tell you it looked quite a sight but now we could see the new light.
Rubbish Clearance
The next stage was to get all the rubbish and junk cleared away. I checked through my local yellow pages and local paper but there was not much to choose. So i went online and Googled for garden rubbish clearance for my area, Twickenham, and a few choices came up. I made an appointment and some one came round to make an estimate and it came to £300.00 . If you seriously want to clear your garden of junk you have to be prepared to spend some money. The green waste bags i put out into the street ready for the Council rubbish collection day.
Rubbish Cleared
A week later the day arrived for the main pile of junk to be removed. This is all piled at the front patio area of the garden.The 2 man team piled all the junk into the dump truck, it had to be done in 2 loads, it was that bad. After about 2 hours it was all cleared and what a difference. With all the loose debris and and green waste bags out of the way the garden looked better already.
Back Of Garden
At the back of my garden there is a field with a infant school built on it, and the entire perimiter of the field has had a large fence running along all the back gardens attatched to it. Also at the back there is an old fence that we erected several years ago .Between our fence and the fence shielding the field there is a 3 foot gap and a lot of bramble had grown and it was over hanging our fence so the next task was to get between the 2 fences and we just hacked the whole lot down. Afterwards there was another pile of bramble to dispose of so we had to obtain more council green sacks. Just to point out some of you are probable wondering why don't i burn the bramble, but it only makes more mess and i am not in favour of large bonfires in the garden.