Actually done quite a lot today - nice, breezy, sunny day. Not quite balmy, but still OK.
Collected a couple of hundred litres of leaves. Potted up a couple of gooseberries from the to-be-replaced raised bed. Finished off the lighting system for the microveg for the first winter batch I have grown. Took down a fence panel in need of repair. Picked the last raspberry harvest of the year - no leaves now so I can find them.
Loved the monogrammed Queen Victoria plant pots in the greenhouse at Buck House.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
Started a new project today, my new veg bed. Was meant to be a no dig but it's become something else, big raised bed with brick sides laid without mortar. I don't have enough bricks so I'm digging up the brick floor under the new bed and salvaging the ones that are ok. Collected up more leaves. Amazingly my big Paulownia was fully clothed this morning and by 4pm every single leaf had fallen off. Oh and I built the kids new trampoline, it does nothing for the garden but they love it
A day at home looking after the boys so managed a few jobs. Collected 2 wheelie bins crammed full of leaves added to the compost, then with the help of the boys we went collecting a couple of wheel barrows of pumpkins from around the village. Yes it's utter lunacy but I just can't see them heading off in a lorry when can compost them. Laid more bricks for the raised bed and cleared more decaying plant material from the perennial beds
Bright, dark, sunny, chucking it down Finally got bored with the April showers nonsense going on outside but did manage a couple of hours. More leaf clearing, divided a rhubarb plant, shifted some of the strawberry army and cleared a planter of the sweetcorn and peas remnants.
No rain today so I finally made it up onto the veg plot with daughter, Sioned. We had a hard frost last night so it did for the last couple of courgette and tomato plants. Bit of a shame as there were a couple of courgettes on them and quite a few tomatoes that were just changing colour. If I had been quicker off he mark I could have harvested them and brought them all in to ripen. They were all squishy when we got up there this afternoon, so in the compost bin with all of it.
Pulled all the pea and broad bean sticks out of the ground and composted the long dead and dried plants, along with the old sweetcorn plants.
Then tidied all the dead and yellowing leaves off of the brassicas before starting the job of staking them.
Finally harvested a swede, a bunch of carrots, and a bunch of Russian Red Kale, all of which we had for dinner. Home grown carrots taste so good!
I shall be back out there tomorrow to stake the rest of the brassicas, and hoe the weeds off the beds prior to mulching them with a good layer of well rotted horse muck from a large heap to which I have access.
Finally a day (well more than an hour) at the plots without rain. Dahlias all blacked by the frost such a shame, at least the Chrysanthemums are a bit more resilient. Finally planted the garlic I had set out in modules, I am putting all the onion family in new raised beds this year to try and circumvent the dreaded white rot. Need to tidy the garden tomorrow as the wind & rain has left a lot of leaves down everywhere.
Just had time to do yet more leaf clearing, the maples are nearly all down but the three very tall birch trees still have lots more leaves to fall - most of them in my courtyard! Asparagus has now turned brown so must cut these down and mulch with manure.
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Collected a couple of hundred litres of leaves. Potted up a couple of gooseberries from the to-be-replaced raised bed. Finished off the lighting system for the microveg for the first winter batch I have grown. Took down a fence panel in need of repair. Picked the last raspberry harvest of the year - no leaves now so I can find them.
Loved the monogrammed Queen Victoria plant pots in the greenhouse at Buck House.
We had a hard frost last night so it did for the last couple of courgette and tomato plants. Bit of a shame as there were a couple of courgettes on them and quite a few tomatoes that were just changing colour. If I had been quicker off he mark I could have harvested them and brought them all in to ripen. They were all squishy when we got up there this afternoon, so in the compost bin with all of it.
Pulled all the pea and broad bean sticks out of the ground and composted the long dead and dried plants, along with the old sweetcorn plants.
Then tidied all the dead and yellowing leaves off of the brassicas before starting the job of staking them.
Finally harvested a swede, a bunch of carrots, and a bunch of Russian Red Kale, all of which we had for dinner. Home grown carrots taste so good!
I shall be back out there tomorrow to stake the rest of the brassicas, and hoe the weeds off the beds prior to mulching them with a good layer of well rotted horse muck from a large heap to which I have access.
Hope to go to allotment tomorrow & Saturday
Asparagus has now turned brown so must cut these down and mulch with manure.