@Marlorena I’ve been thinking the same, we also missed the most recent storm and have had very little wind. Last year it just seemed to be storm after stop and constant high winds!! I’m not complaining but does feel like I’m waiting for the other boot to drop!!
I’m slowly making progress setting in the first layer of sleepers for my new raised bed. Digging out those boulders is no fun! Soil depth near the hedge is a generous (for here) 30cm:
As I rise up the incline, I’m lucky to get 10cm of topsoil before I hit rocky clay subsoil:
Smudge enjoying a bit of trenching:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
o/t.. but I've just dug a nice big hole.. takes me some times these days, especially since I lost my helper a couple of years ago.. he used to dig big holes for me, once I started them off, used to make a right mess, sometimes more of a hindrance.. and often dug in the wrong place.. I had no intention of putting anything in there.. ..anyway, I got a new clematis arriving from Taylor's so I got ahead..
oh how extraordinary, I've just seen Nollie's post which wasn't there when I posted mine, very much on a similar theme... I don't think I could manage that soil composition..
@Nollie, that soil and boulder taking out is hard work! Smudge is so fluffy and look at those eyes.
@Marlorena, lovely helper you had. Soil is looking so nice and crumbly.
Here everything is sticky red clay. My boots get super heavy with all the mud attached under and around it. Shovel and gloves everything slippery. Can't believe I am preparing for dry summer. All those nicely lined pots from driveway are planted here now. It used to be my cut flowers daisies bed.
Roses from Harkness arrived... with a hole in the plastic wrapping the roots and the roots protruding from the top of the plastic. If they were moist when they were packed, they certainly weren't when they arrived. The stems have a bit of unsettling wrinkling going on, too... Like what is the point of digging out those nice long roots if you aren't going to pack them properly?😬
Ha, yes snap, Marlorena. Now you can see why I get soil envy, yours and newbies looks so much better. The next house will have to have decent soil, I certainly couldn’t cope with all this rock extraction and raised bed making in my growing dotage!
There is a huge absence by your side when you lose a dog. I still really miss Sandra. Smudge is at the disruptive/destructive stage, but it’s good to have a black woolly monster back by my gardening side again. Old boy Bill keeps well out of the way!
Not great packing WAMS, that ridged, dehydrated look on canes is never a good sign..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Good to know red clay is good for roses. I am not sure if it is red or yellow clay here. I planted out second lot of pots in middle of nowhere 😄. I wanted to make a vegetable raised bed here but this location doesn't get much sun.
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As I rise up the incline, I’m lucky to get 10cm of topsoil before I hit rocky clay subsoil:
Smudge enjoying a bit of trenching:
I had no intention of putting anything in there..
..anyway, I got a new clematis arriving from Taylor's so I got ahead..
oh how extraordinary, I've just seen Nollie's post which wasn't there when I posted mine, very much on a similar theme... I don't think I could manage that soil composition..
@Marlorena, lovely helper you had. Soil is looking so nice and crumbly.
Here everything is sticky red clay. My boots get super heavy with all the mud attached under and around it. Shovel and gloves everything slippery. Can't believe I am preparing for dry summer. All those nicely lined pots from driveway are planted here now. It used to be my cut flowers daisies bed.
Like what is the point of digging out those nice long roots if you aren't going to pack them properly?😬
The potted one looks fine, though.
...thanks.. we miss him... some of your roses look iffy, shoddy packing really.. potted one looks good..
@newbie77
you have a large garden.. I think red clay is good for roses, I used to garden on clay..
@Nollie
Today it's your turn for a nice bath after that... Smudge is nicely clipped..
There is a huge absence by your side when you lose a dog. I still really miss Sandra. Smudge is at the disruptive/destructive stage, but it’s good to have a black woolly monster back by my gardening side again. Old boy Bill keeps well out of the way!
I planted out second lot of pots in middle of nowhere 😄. I wanted to make a vegetable raised bed here but this location doesn't get much sun.
Third lot of pots need to wait a few days.