One advantage of the high winds is that it dried up the soil enough for me to do a bit of digging on the Allotment. Interestingly part of the area was where I grew the Dahlias & Chrysanthemums for cut flower, this soil was very open & crumbly which is a surprise considering how much i have walked on it while tending them this year.
Woah, That's quite the project you've set yourself up for there MissKittyKat.
Dug over and filled the new bed, a literal tonne of earth and mulch has been shifted today. I'm just short about 100l of compost but I have access to free manure so it's no big deal.
This is the last big project for a while, tomorrow I actually get to do some normal stuff like weeding, raking and planting that won't involve masses of heavy lifting and getting a wheelbarrow up and down a steep slope as I installed a second compost bin.
Removing yet more hardcore where some of the block paving was. Fighting with the heavy clay and cursing the previous owners who thought it would be a good idea to block pave most of the garden!!!!! On the plus side I'll have another bed to grow climbers up the wall?
I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Tootles but glad to hear you are back in the garden, take care of yourself.
I didn't really get done what I had planned, thwarted by some diagonal hail and flooding in the pond area.
Instead I tinkered with the brick path I laid the other week. Realised I'd thrown in an extra line of bricks on the corner so fixed that. Need to relay the sand underneath though so they don't snap.
Cut the branches off the Xmas tree and chucked on the 'log' pile, also cut down a rosa rugosa that is cramping my strawberry tree. Going to have to watch that in case it springs back up through my neighbours decking or something. Made some changes to the planting either side of the brick path now it's in place, still need to plant up most of the sunny side.
Thought I'd lost my flock of little birds due to forgetting to fill up the feeders last week, but instead I have somehow gained more birds, house sparrows?
Soaked some hedgehog biscuits for the brownbirds, think there's about 10 of them now. No point letting them go stale
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One advantage of the high winds is that it dried up the soil enough for me to do a bit of digging on the Allotment. Interestingly part of the area was where I grew the Dahlias & Chrysanthemums for cut flower, this soil was very open & crumbly which is a surprise considering how much i have walked on it while tending them this year.
This morning I potted up two huge plants and created a 8ft by 6ft veg bed in my back garden, now I got to add 609l of compost and bark to it.,.
First day out in the garden properly and next garden project started. Levelling out back of garden to become my veggie plot!
Ita going to take a lot of digging and my little fiat only fits one sleeper in at a time ?
Woah, That's quite the project you've set yourself up for there MissKittyKat.
Dug over and filled the new bed, a literal tonne of earth and mulch has been shifted today. I'm just short about 100l of compost but I have access to free manure so it's no big deal.
This is the last big project for a while, tomorrow I actually get to do some normal stuff like weeding, raking and planting that won't involve masses of heavy lifting and getting a wheelbarrow up and down a steep slope as I installed a second compost bin.
I'll just do it in my own time, in no rush and will just look forward to the end result
Some fab projects going on, good stuff
I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Tootles but glad to hear you are back in the garden, take care of yourself.
I didn't really get done what I had planned, thwarted by some diagonal hail and flooding in the pond area.
Instead I tinkered with the brick path I laid the other week. Realised I'd thrown in an extra line of bricks on the corner so fixed that. Need to relay the sand underneath though so they don't snap.
Cut the branches off the Xmas tree and chucked on the 'log' pile, also cut down a rosa rugosa that is cramping my strawberry tree. Going to have to watch that in case it springs back up through my neighbours decking or something. Made some changes to the planting either side of the brick path now it's in place, still need to plant up most of the sunny side.
Thought I'd lost my flock of little birds due to forgetting to fill up the feeders last week, but instead I have somehow gained more birds, house sparrows?
Soaked some hedgehog biscuits for the brownbirds, think there's about 10 of them now. No point letting them go stale
Oh yes, shout out to the person who layed some sort of patio in my back garden and then simply dumped a load of topsoil over it.
Deconstruction in my case at the moment.