Started a few seed trays off of wildflowers to get some plugs out in spring. Also bought water butt number 4 after last years drought bringing me up to 874l of storage plus wildlife pond and whisky barrel pond. Hopefully these should allow me to keep the pond topped up with rain water if we have another dry summer.
Finally managed to dig up a huge red currant bush that had been planted many years ago in one of the veg patches as we had decided to turn it into a soft fruit area. Didn't work! Black currant was dug and moved into the orchard before the frosts and only now were we able to move the red currant. What an amount of space we have got back for veg. Great.
Whether they survive is another matter but we do have both currants in other areas of the garden.
I started on Friday with the first replanting of the little grow (1 Knapweed and 4 Catmint), and sowed Chillies, and more Knapweed and Catmint as the first batch was disappointing. I will sow all the February Wildflowers today. I had to replant a little Peach tree as the pot was broken by the frost. I did some garden clearance, but the soil is still frozen.So, I have to wait. The Verbena has got frost damage and needs to come out. One of the foxes broke a stem of the Bowles Mauve.
I dug out a huge old agapanthus that's been in my sights for ages. It's nothing special flower-wise and not particularly prolific, and I want the space for something else. The rootball is so heavy I can't lift it so I've left it upside-down hoping that the soil will dry off and fall out next time I try to shift it. I'll probably have to get the spade to it and chop it up into sections to bin it.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Dug out the 2-year-old compost heap and bagged up the compost, ready for spreading in the veg beds etc. Tomorrow's job is to turn last year's heap into the empty bay.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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I had to replant a little Peach tree as the pot was broken by the frost.
I did some garden clearance, but the soil is still frozen.So, I have to wait. The Verbena has got frost damage and needs to come out. One of the foxes broke a stem of the Bowles Mauve.
I ♥ my garden.