2024 - What I did today

It's clearing up and clearing out time. I cleared out compost no.3, sieved and bagged up the remaining compost, then put the bags in a square dalek for storing until next spring. Now, having an empty 1m³ bin, I started chopping down outdoor toms, sweetcorn and anything else past its best to refill it.

I've some room in the gh so set up a winter sowing station. Nothing elaborate, just returned some staging slats and plonked a tray on top. Whether it will get used is open to debate. Sowed some broad beans. Filled an MFB with some old dirt from a cracked terracotta pot full of dumped white, very invasive, white narcissus then replanted the bulbs in a bed enclosed by bricks. Although the bed is in the shade of the copper beech, the bulbs are so prolific at least some will thrive. Sowed peas in the MFB.