well... i just spent an hour in my garden and i am just getting rid of EVERYTHING there except the dirt and my lavendar. everything else has to go and then I'll start from scratch this autumn or next spring. depends on how far i get this summer with clearing the garden totally. hehe.
some of the bushes have grown into being like small trees which are hell to get out of the ground when you don't have some great manly tools. hehe. but i am working my butt off out there (so it's ok that i don't get to the gym so often... i simply work out with gardening. LOL)and i can really see the progress. :) some of the overgrown bushes has grown outside my fence, and the fence being of pretty cheap quality will not last for a long time of branches and bushes growing through it so it's good that i get it cleared out!!!

i need some stuff to get rid of the ants. cos i got a LOT of them. i don't want to totally wipe out the ant population in my garden. i just don't want them invading my terrasse and i don't want them to live too close to my house... i know this sounds like i don't like ants. but i do. it's just that ants can get into my house when the doors are closed and i don't want to have ants in my livingroom or my bedroom for that matter. and the ants on my terrasse... well... i don't want to have ants crawling all over me if i sit out there for a long time. haha.

i think it's pretty exciting to see how well i actually get the garden cleared... some of the plants and flowers and bushes hav overgrown so much that they are almost impossible to move. so i can only hope that i got it all, you know? hehe.

i really feel that eventhough i am killing the plants by taking them out of the dirt and into big black bags i am in good contact with nature when i'm out there in my garden. i like getting my hands dirty and i like to save the beetles and worms from getting into the bags just in the last minute (yeah, i feel that i'm saving lifes. LOL) and i like to see that my garden is getting less and less overwhelming to look at :) if only i could have some help from, let's say.... MY DAD! but oooooh no. his wife doesn't want them to help me (she's always walking in his foot prints when he's out here... strange bitch, if you ask me) but she has no problems laughing at my garden because it's so unorganized. she has no problems with telling me i need to get something done with the garden. but when i tell her that i need help to do that she shuts up and looks at me in that way that tells you "well, you are NOT going to ask me!" and then if i keep talking about me needing hepl with the garden then she tells me that my dad doesn't have time to come and help me all the time. that he has a life on his own. well.. i'm not asking him to come here for days and days... i'm asking for a few hours with my dad. a few hours with hard work and quality time. but it seems that i am doing ok without their help after all. it just takes more time and i have more pain in my muscles afterwards than i would have if i got help from someone.

I really hope that "Ønskehaven" (a garden-tv show where people get the garden they wish for and that my mom contacted after she got home from her visit) will come and get me the best garden i could ever dream of: lots of herbs to use in food and teas and other things that can help you get well if you are ill in any way. lots of pretty flowers that i can use in bouquets and that i can dry and also use in herbal medication. and then i want vegetables and other things i can eat: carrots, strawberries, onions, carrots... stuff like that. if i could get these things in my garden i would be SO happy! and i think i need to find a good spot for Birger to be placed when he's outside in his cage. as it is right now i take his chair out and put it on the terrasse and then i place him on it. but it'd be nice to have a place for him that was out there all the time so i didn't have to move that goddamn chair around so much. perhaps a little air tight box where i could keep my smaller gardening tools and then Birger could be on top of the box?

i think the biggest project in my garden is to get rid of my tree. you know i love trees so much... but the tree in my garden is too big (both height-wise and wide-wise) to my garden, i think. perhaps if i got rid of that tree i could get a nice apple tree instead? they aren't so big and apples are useful :) i think i'd want either golde delicious-apples or royal gale-apples if i ever got an apple tree.

perhaps i should join a gardening community when my garden is cleared so i can get some ideas as to what i should get. and a herbal community as well!

*headbanging to Flat Beat*