I feel like I haven’t done much up the ‘plot this past
month. It was my last week at work and the weather wasn’t great, so I haven’t done
as much as I’d planned for the month.
I had a donation of bricks from a friend and I invested in
some new tarps, so I now have five veg beds covered over, one flower bed
covered, and one flower bed replanted but left uncovered. I have planted two
onion sets (one red and one white) and covered them over with fleece to keep
them cosy warm ready for spring. I have nearly finished digging out a mound of
soil and used it to raise ground level in other beds, and I have discovered my first ever homegrown quince, on a plant we grew from seed!
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| Plot 31 looks very different compared to a month ago; read here! The bed at the bottom right is my mint patch - it isn't worth growing anything else there as it floods so badly. I need to dig out and sort that, too.... |
Ok so having written it down it does look like I did loads last
month…
Next on my list is digging out an old wasps nest and using
the soil from that mound to raise the ground level in my herb bed, which also
needs digging out and replanting, so these two jobs must be done in tandem. I have
more herbs to plant (rosemary, thyme and chives), and I have three packs of
daffodil bulbs to put in too. The red-tailed bumbles couldn’t get enough of the
chives this year so I am going to plant them more spread out across the bed
instead of in a central clump.
After that I want to build (read: get David to build) an
archway over my central path between two beds. This will make a decorative
feature but it will also give me somewhere permanent to grow climbing crops
every year – beans, peas, nasturtiums, sweet peas, tomatoes, cucumbers,
pumpkins, and whatever else I fancy. I picture it to be very simple – a few
lengths of 2x2 timber with bracing beams, and some 25mm square gardeners mesh
stapled on so things can grow up it.
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| The sad, sunken, overgrown herb bed. |
I have three more beds in need of turning, weeding &
covering, and then I need to dig out the quince, build up the soil level &
improve drainage, then replant the quince. I need to go and buy some compost, poop (haven't decided between horse or chicken yet), and gravel to build up the level, so this may have to wait...!
We had a suspected shed break in this month. On first
inspection nothing had been taken but I removed half of my tools just incase
people came back. On second inspection my folding pruning saw is missing, which
is incredibly annoying as it is very useful for pruning and coppicing!
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| Improved shed security ft half a slab and three bricks. |
Next year I want a blueberry bush and a picnic bench, and a
larger patio area around the shed and in front of the compost bins…. Enough to
keep both David and myself busy for a while J
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| Sprahts! |
