Another day up… you guessed it – the allotment!
Momma P and I tried to beat the heat today without much
success. Momma mowed a bit and I dug a bit and then we went home. I have
finally decided what to do with an abandoned bed – I dug it over, weeded, and
then planted a Japanese Wineberry in it. This should spread and take over the
bed, and I am going to get some new raspberry canes to plant in it too. This
will give me two raspberry beds. There was a large raspberry in this bed before
but I chopped it all the way down last year. I wasn’t sure that it’d survive
such a brutal hacking, but it is springing back to life, so all is not lost.
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| Japanese Wineberry |
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| My brutal hack-job on the raspberry |
A little while ago I bought a comically undersized shopping
basket from The Range, mainly because I like silly things and this amused me
more than it ever should. I have finally (!) decided to use it for allotment
things, alongside my two trug baskets. The CUB (comically undersized basket)
has been used to bring back a mix of salad leaves and herbs, and has the
benefit of being holey which means we can wash produce in the basket and hang
it to drip dry before we use the harvest. Good, eh? Every allotment should have
some CUBs.
In all of the excitement of my carrot seeds growing and now
putting out their first set of true leaves, and possibly due to yesterdays
pizza, I split my shorts on the thigh. With my new air vent I proceeded to do
some weeding - I was planning on cutting down and removing last years sprouts as
they have bolted – but then I heard a bee. And I looked. And I saw a bee. Then another.
Then I realised that they were female hairy footed flower bees!
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| It has been a good weekend for solitary bees and I am happy |
Back home I have started my second six-month temperature
blanket. Already after five days it has more colour variation than the whole of
my first six-month blanket! Momma P has fixed my shorts but I think when I have
demolished the droppings from the Easter Bunny (I did quite well this year), I shall
be going on a diet!
