{"id":2188,"date":"2018-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-27th-may-kergodeon\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:23","slug":"sunday-27th-may-kergodeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-27th-may-kergodeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 27th May – KergOdeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite saying in my last blog<\/a> that this week\u2019s major task would be to start clearing the old car park to create the new petanque pitch, I haven\u2019t yet made a start on it!<\/p>\n

Having focussed previously on completing the wall alongside the man shed, this week meant that I had to focus on other areas of the garden that had continued to grow and needed a bit of TLC.\u00a0 It is no consequence that much of Finist\u00e8re is very green but it does mean that everything grows quickly and constantly.<\/p>\n

Many of these tasks, again, don\u2019t make for great photos but really needed to be done.\u00a0 These included clearing around the base of Granary\u2019s hedge where the couch grass had started to take control and choke a number of the smaller privet cuttings that we planted a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

Two of the most impactful changes took place on the north end of the garden.\u00a0 One was a start to try and control the huge amounts of Japanese knot weed we have on our boundary.\u00a0 We hadn\u2019t known that Kergudon had Japanese knot weed when we bought as we had never seen it before so was unable to recognise it.\u00a0 We knew that in the UK it is a serious problem but it appears that the French have a different view as it is fairly widespread here.<\/p>\n

Since moving in we have learnt that most of the garden on the north side of the buildings was a forest of knot weed.\u00a0 The previous owners managed to push this back to the boundary by creating a lawn and mowing regularly killing the weed in the centre.\u00a0\u00a0 In the areas where we have tried to control it we have had some success but it takes time and needs consistent cutting out of any new growth and ideally the root.<\/p>\n

\"JKW\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We had never attacked the weed on the talus on the north boundary which had grown to an incredible size. \u00a0This week we started by strimming this year\u2019s growth \u2013 which is amazingly fast \u2013 and clearing the bank which has again gained us a few metres of garden.\u00a0 We have a plan to attack it properly in the next year or so by digging away at the talus and bank although this will be dependent on acquiring a new bit of kit (Paul Johnson, if you\u2019re reading, we are still keen to collaborate!)<\/p>\n

\"JKW<\/a><\/p>\n

The second big task helped clear the strimmed weed as I had the big bonfire that was desperately needed.\u00a0 We hadn\u2019t had a bonfire in over 2 years and we had continued to use what was the old chicken run (before our time) as a dumping ground for garden waste.\u00a0 In the last couple of years we have felled a number of trees \u2013 assisted too by Storm Zeus last year \u2013 and accumulated about 70 cubic metres of wood and branches.<\/p>\n

\"Bonfire<\/a><\/p>\n

This pile was never the most attractive outlook and, as we want to control the knot weed, we want to convert the area to lawn so that it too can be mown.\u00a0 Clearing the area meant a full day feeding the fire which was tiring and a little sad as the wood would have provided years and years of kindling for the fires but, even with our new garage, we couldn\u2019t store that much! \u00a0To give an impression of the volume this is the size of the ash pile at the end!<\/p>\n

\"Bonny\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Having cleared the waste I can, eventually, start to clear the area completely and keep on top of it with mowing.\u00a0 Added to the list.<\/p>\n

\"Chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

I also mentioned in last week\u2019s blog that we had a final major addition to add to the games room but, as it wasn\u2019t installed at this time last week, I kept it secret.\u00a0 Thankfully, yesterday, I have fully installed this new addition and we are really pleased with it \u2013 a projector and screen to create our own private cinema.<\/p>\n

While we were building the games room, as it is such a good sized space David had the idea to create a cinema for guests to use.\u00a0 We tested it last night with our own screening of one our favourite films, the remake of the Thomas Crown Affair which, we know, has some fairly obvious flaws and clunky plot moves but it is good fun and had a great soundtrack to test the sound system.\u00a0 It is great and I hope something that our guests will enjoy too.<\/p>\n

\"Games<\/a><\/p>\n

I will probably start clearing the petanque pitch in the coming week although the weather has, sadly, broken from the last 3 week\u2019s amazing hot and dry spell \u2013 although the garden desperately needed the rain.<\/p>\n

Kenavo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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