2022 - What I did today

I spent yesterday trying to get some plants in the ground. My new beds have very variable depth, and I'm not sure about planting much over the curtains as they won't break down fast enough to let the roots through (if they break down at all - I'm not certain they are all natural fibres!) I have therefore cut some holes in the curtains, so may end up with some very grassy weedy beds.

I also made some tripods out of wired together prunings. Let's just pretend that I was going for the rustic look... They'll look better once stuff has grown over them, but there's also a high risk of them blowing over at that point!

My poor plants are a bit stunted. A combination of the rubbish woody B&Q compost I started out with, and having left them in pots for too long. Hopefully they will still come to something. I did manage to thoroughly upset my courgette plants by failing to harden them off. Based on previous experience, most things don't need carefully hardening off, but it seems the courgettes may be an exception. One snapped in half in the wind, one looked too pathetic to plant out right away and the two that made it into the ground are looking very sad.

I have a lot more to plant out, and then lots of seeds to sow. Sadly, I don't have prunings to make many more tripods, so I'm trying to work out if I can cut anything else down!