New member, novice gardener, big garden

Hello,

I've been lurking on the forum for a few days and decided to sign up. I'm a novice gardener and bought a house last year with my husband. He's a better gardener than me but it would be difficult to be worse!
After spending a year in the house we've almost finished rearranging all the furniture and have started doing things to the garden. So far most of that has consisted in killing off, (deliberately) all the plants that needed to be bubble and fleece wrapped through the winter, cutting down some of the trees, planting and harvesting lots of strawberries.

My first projects are to continue to remove all the conifers planed next to the foundations. I find having dwarf conifers planted 10 to 30cm away from the foundations too scary. Then I need to figure out if a Gingko tree planted 1-1.5m away from the foundations can be moved. As well as that I have some ant nests that need to be killed and 3 weeks ago about 10,000 moles moved into my garden.
On top of that my sister in laws dog is moving in with us in 2 weeks and I'm 5 months pregnant. Luckily, I like a nice project to keep me busy.

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Isandri. It sounds like you've got your work cut out in more ways than one.

 

Hello and welcome Isandri

Wow, it does sound like you've got a lot on, but it sounds like you've got it all well planned, so that's half the battle sorted straight away.

Can I make a suggestion? (I'm going to anyway ), it might be a good idea to section off parts of the garden and have your part and the dog's part, just because dogs have a tendency to damage gardens, and by next spring time, you'll no doubt be wanting to spend quality time on a nice lawn with your new addition, without having to worry about what the dog might have done on the patch of grass you're about to lay on.

 

Sheal and Clueless you have a point about me having a lot going on. Luckily me and my husband have very nice work patterns, 2 weeks in work and 4 at home so we have the time. The comment about the dog is good one. I think something will have to be put in as a temporary measure as it's a big dog. I was planning on picking up the dog poo, but is it bad that I was thinking about fencing the baby in and not the dog

 

That makes perfect sense to me. The dog will be capable of looking after itself. It wont taste test a poisonous plant, it wont try to grab a thorny rose bush, and if it disappears for a few seconds, you wont be in blind panic.

If you section off a bit for you and baby, at least you'll know exactly what your baby can or can't get hold of.

 

Good evening Isandri,
welcome to Gardeners Corner . So glad you've taken the plunge. So much help and good advice here on just about anything. Moles are a nightmare aren't they.
have fun here,

 

Welcome