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It turned out to be a really pleasant afternoon. I got a couple of hours in the garden and (finally) finished digging over the patch where I had trees. I'll put some pictures in my progress thread.

(18-01-2022, 09:35 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: [ -> ]I've a row of raspberries next to some currant bushes. The best raspberry canes are now in the middle of the bushes. while the row of raspberries is a bit pathetic. In the row, a lot were 3' to 4' high while from the bushes were 7' easily.

That's what happened to me...the newer ones have migrated further away from its original patch. Out of all the fruit and veg I grow I get best return from raspberries so I'm thinking to move the better canes back into their original spot.

(18-01-2022, 09:35 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: [ -> ]I've a row of raspberries next to some currant bushes. The best raspberry canes are now in the middle of the bushes. while the row of raspberries is a bit pathetic. In the row, a lot were 3' to 4' high while from the bushes were 7' easily.

Same happened here, maybe rasps like bedfellows.

It was cold out today, so I didn't spend long outdoors. But I did take all the ivy off the front of the shed so I could see what needs to be done to fix the door. I oiled the remaining hinge and will see if I've got a spare somewhere to replace the broken one. The door still won't fit though because the door frame is now a parallelogram.

Mrs H thinks I should just get a new shed, but that's not how it works is it.

I have sorted through all the seeds I currently have at the house (a combination of seeds I thought I could grow on hospital accommodation windowsills and the seed swap seeds) and made an organised list of them on Google Notes (so it's searchable!) Anything that didn't yet have a sowing reminder as a scheduled task on my phone now has one.

It took a surprisingly long time!

Next, I need to get hold of all my other seeds from my parents' house and do the same with them. Then, I just need to work out what the gaps are and go about filling them in

Hmm, I was a bit lazy today. It was wet in the morning and really cold this afternoon. It was a friends birthday and I always leave things until the last minute so I stayed in, made some earrings and just went and looked at my seedlings.

Made a new river gate and put in place. Last one washed away. Turns out I have holes in both welly’s!

A lovely warm day - perfect for emptying compost from the hotbin. Filled 4 x 30 litre pots and wheelbarrowed 2 down to the far end of the garden. The other 2 went in GH No.4 to dry out and warm up a bit. Didn't have room for all 4 pots.
Went out collecting "stuff" afterwards including a large metal fireguard .I already have one and my thoughts are that the 2 guards will make a small enclosure around something that I don't want the dogs or chooks to trample or around a fruit bush?
The garden is filling up with child gates and playpens, and the playhouse. A couple of fireguards won't look out of place. .

Took delivery of some seed potatoes. I had been going to just use home grown seed but my vitabella seed was a failure so I ordered fresh - and couldn't resist ordering another 6 varieties to try at the same time - to economise on the postage.
I put some seeds on tissue to check for viability - parsnip as they take a while to germinate anyway and some self saved sweet peppers and quinoa.
Then I went out and pruned some fruit trees. One of the apple trees I'm not too sure what to do with it as it has thrown up an excess of new shoots all over.

Arternoon all

Was at Rockfit yesterday fort the first time this year. The Box/core session was cancelled because the instructor had covid!

I assumed the Box/core would be cancelled for tonight as well.Just found out that it is back on again tonight as another instructor has taken over.

Thats my evening sorted then.

Just about to go outdoors and chop a few sticks. There is summat quite soothing about pulling a chair up, getting an axe in the hand and casually chopping sticks on a large tree stump!