2024 - What I did today

Yesterday was preparing for the arrival of the new thornless baby. The blackberry. I've limited space due to thug but I'm not burning my boats with thug until Columbia starts taking off (is she a space shuttle methinks?). I dug up the 2yr old unproductive weedy looking tayberry. Well, it's unproductive for me, as I think wildlife of some sort had any fruits before I had a look in. I didn't realise the tayerry fruited around the same time as raspberries and are therefore more attractive to birds etc. The thug fruit never get touched, or at least if they do, I dont notice it because there's so many blackberries. I moved tayberry to a bare spot in the bottom fruit cage and gave it bed of well rotten manure to sit in. At least it's safe from the wildlife there ....maybe. Columbia will go in the same spot as tayberry but we (I mean him) dug a fine new deep and wide hole especially for the new baby. She won't be able to say she hasn't got good root room. After that bit of fun it was vacuuming loads of copper beech leaves out of the flower border. We're forecast rain most of the day so I don't think Columbia will be planted today.

By the way Vinny, hope your flank regrows to your satisfaction and you can get back to hulahooping soon. I've a image in my mind of you in a hula skirt. It's put me off my coffee! All the best for a quick recovery. At least I'm sympathetic, sort of.