2022 - What I did today

Cut down a hazel that had outgrown its place in the hedge and was leaning over an apple tree. Attacked the bamboo snapping off the young shoots and cut whatever I could closer to the ground. Did some buttercup digging out and dock pulling up or snapping off seed heads.
Admired the courgettes - even gave them a little fondle. Maybe tomorrow.

Nothing in the garden today, other than adding stuff to the compost bin.

But I did finish my essay, leaving me with only a presentation and a self-reflection to write tomorrow. Then it's time to pack for Corfu, and do some last minute setting up of a bed and planting out (cause I have anxiety about leaving the watering of the greenhouse to the others)

Weeded the carrot bed. Potted on some more plants for the new garden. Planted up my new bare root plants that arrived today.

Visited the new garden of a friend in the UK - he's done so much with a small space with lots of fruit trees and bushes, a veg patch, a couple of wild areas, a pond and some borders, plus a greenhouse and a couple of seating areas. A real lesson in utilising the space you have.

Cut down a hazel that had outgrown its place in the hedge and was leaning over an apple tree. Attacked the bamboo snapping off the young shoots and cut whatever I could closer to the ground. Did some buttercup digging out and dock pulling up or snapping off seed heads.
Admired the courgettes - even gave them a little fondle. Maybe tomorrow.

Fondling courgettes? I wonder what Sigmund Freud would have to say about that?

Started ferrying manure, soil, grass clippings, and leaves from plot to home to fill my planter at home. It holds 350litres and will house my tomatoes and cucumbers, hopefully!

Will also use 100litres of shop compost as its its first year.

Planted this up today, it's not much but all we can fit in the back yard. Maybe slightly overloaded but there are 8 tomatoes and 4 cucumbers in the planter, the pots contain sweet peppers.

The green trug will be planted with leaves, Mrs B is kindly taking on that task(I've told her she needs to live up to Bren's expertise)!

The tomatoes and cucs should be smallish and all fit but lets see, I'm not to bothered if things have to sprawl around as its year1 test

I can't cut it off, Sigmund. I want to see how big it can grow.

In other news, cut down another hazel and shredded the branches . Weeded a "bed" and covered it with shreddies. Also topped up the Hotbin which boosted the heat almost immediately. Cleared out the brambles that lurked under the hazel and discovered a very leggy hydrangea I'd forgotten was there.
Pulled out some chard from the GH to make room for some tomatoes and found an ant's nest - some of the beasties were getting ready to fly. Must be Wimbledon soon.

Seed sowing, weeding GH and strawberry bed then mulching in between bean rows.

I've finished my essay (yay!) and my presentation (yay!) and I'm doing the self-reflection tomorrow.

I headed out in the garden after tea, and laid out some cardboard next to the chicken coop, then topped with horse manure from one of the compost bins. I'll put some homemade compost in there too tomorrow, once it's dried out a bit, so I can spread it more easily. Sweetcorn, squashes and the odd cucumber will be planted out there .

Tomorrow I'm planning on taking off the top layer in the big compost bin and transfer that to the three small ones, and see if I can get useable compost out of the biggun

Dug over a carrot bed in the poly tunnel, watered and fed tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs, watered the garlic and potatoes all in the tunnel. Put nets on my strawberries, fixed the root fly collars on the recently planted cabbage plants the wind had blown most of the off. Weeded 2/3’s of my onion bed until the rain stopped me. All in all a good 1/2 day inthe garden as later went for dinner and then on to a rugby match.