2022 - What I did today

I've done nothing gardening related today other than admiring my pot of ranunculus picotee cafe that I got from Farmer Gracy - they're poking up out of the soil!

Oh and I bought a wheelbarrow for the concrete

Finally planted the daffodil and tulip bulbs I bought last year. At least I know they're viable as they all had green shoots.
Still have some hyacinths to plant.
Moved a few stray Elephant garlic plants out of a pot and planted them next to some of their brothers and sisters in one of the permanent Ellie G beds.

Loaded a trailer of wood that I'll be stacking it once its split.

Dug up couch grass - enough to fill a big trug.
Very satisfying when a long strand of root comes out of the soil or a knotted tangle of roots.
This wasn't on my day's agenda but it was in the sun and that's helps my decision making no end.

Yesterday I continued weeding out bittercress from fruit cage and tidying up strawberries. In there are two blueberries in pots as our soil is alkaline. The pots are set down in the soil a bit for stability. Unfortunately one blueberry looks dead, or very nearly, and has been overrun with raspberries so I dug out the raspberries reluctantly (why is it the best canes are those in the wrong place) then dug out the pot and put outside the cage. Moved the unstable strawberry tower into its new place where old blueberry was.

Had a very slow week garden-wise, but did manage to prune the roses yesterday and cut all the edges of the grass paths in the potager.

Had a big job on cleaning out the stove stripped it all back and scraped it down, lots of hard soot, then ash vac it. Brought in a load of turf and logs to the bunkers outside the house. Chopped kindling. Then finally got to the tunnel, dug 3 of the raised beds, added BFB, seaweed granules and raked them over, weeded around the herb bed and added BFB and seaweed around the herbs. Watered the herbs and the garlic, checked my heritage carrots they are ready for digging next week. .

^^^That puts my taming my fig and hacking my bay to shame.

I've sowed some seeds, admired the toms that have made an appearance, which is quick - only six days to germinate!

I also bought two fruit trees - a Golden Delicious and a Victoria plum. They'll go into pots initially, as we're moving the big stuff around, like the greenhouse and getting rid of sheds. I need the flexibility, so pots it is. I just hope I have some that are big enough!

Dig out loads of couch grass not to mention a ton of flint in order to extend a flower bed. More tomorrow I hope then I will add soil from what I call one of the ‘rubbish’ compost heaps. Just where I dump all the stuff I don’t want in the proper compost.