May Day, A Garden Spring Clean and a Hedgehog

May Day Bank Holiday always provides the perfect opportunity to get out into the garden and have a really good tidy up. With all the April showers everything is a luscious green, the grass is just the right length to get your first decent mow on it and you have three whole days to potter to and fro among the flowerbeds.

My Recycling Store

A little job I always like to get done over the May Day Bank Holiday is to clear out the log store and give it a real good tidy. All of our log stores here at Dorset Log Stores are made from Tanalith-E pressure treated timbers, which puts them good against fungus and rot for up to fifteen years, but to keep my log store in tip-top condition and to make sure I get the most from my firewood, I like to empty any remaining firewood out, and give the whole log store a real good sweep out.

Never having been a fan of being too cold, my fire place has been roaring all winter long and my fire poker has seen so much use it has nearly worn down to a fire nub and my log store is nearly empty. Giving my log store a clean out now and re-stacking my fire wood will mean that when I order in my logs for next winter, which I always like to do during summer, they are nicely seasoned for when Jack Frost a comes knocking at my door.

You might be asking where the hedgehog comes into this garden spring clean that  I have so carefully planned for May Day Bank Holiday? Well the other night I happened to spy a prickly pal making his way into a gap between the logs that are currently stacked up nicely. I think he has made a little home in there so I will carefully, this weekend, so as not to scare him/her, be making a little hedgehog house next to my recycling store over by the compost heap and then transferring said "hodgeheg" to it's new home.

May Day Bank Holiday provides an ideal opportunity to get out in the garden and if you have a list of little jobs you want to get done, now is a great time to get your log store all ready for whatever the weather might throw at us over the next 8 months, whether it's logs for your chimenea on lazy warm summer evenings or keeping toes warm come November.

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Thanks for Reading
James