2024 - What I did today

Copper beech leaf raking and pulverising. Lots of bags of chopped up leaves for future compost.

Sowed old seeds - microgreens and flowers. Raked and turned dead grass mounds. Weeded Veg Plot 3 and a path in Strip 3.

A little bit of bramble cutting. While looking for suitable long thin bits. All suitable lengths had thorns and leaves removed. And hit with a hammer along the full length to make them nice and bendy.

Some weeding in VP5 and Strip3.
Had a Flu injection!

A little bit of bramble cutting. While looking for suitable long thin bits. All suitable lengths had thorns and leaves removed. And hit with a hammer along the full length to make them nice and bendy.

I wondered how blackberry lengths would work.  We have a spindle 'hedge' near the compost bins. The spindle hasn't been cut for ages and they lengths of growth are well over 6ft and very bendy, ideal for your purpose. Not a lot of use for you down here though.

There are lots of long thin bits here where brambles have climbed up into trees/hedges then dropped suckers down to the ground, ready to root. I pull up as many as I can as they're a trip hazard. They're very flexible though.

I've got a few arm muscle pains after this mornings workout. It was thought the excercises were getting to easy for me so 2KG weights were added to each wrist for an hours boot camp!  Luckily I was allowed to take them off for the Half hour boxing that followed!
I did intend going to view and walk with Kato around a wood I am intrested in today but the weather is awful for trudging around a forest. Tomorrows forecast is better so will leave it until then.................that's if the weathermen/women get it right this time?

Bottled up more apples but ran out of jars. I'm a bit disappointed that Home Bargains have either run out or stopped doing 1 ltre mason jars at £1.29 each, other places are far more expensive.

Just a bit of GH tidying. Each time I pull up a tomato plant I replace it with a 30 ltr pot that I fill with old compost from the GH bed........another one done today! Need to find something to plant/sow in it now. Maybe a potato or two, with peas and some salad leaves on top.

Dog walked, visited allotment then crawled under my motorhome, took off the broken pump and fitte a new one for my Eberspacher diesel heater for inside. More complicated than it sounds but now I have a choice of diesel heater (cheapest to run!) propane gas heating (2nd cheapest) or electric heating whilst on hookup at a site.  Another walk for Kato now then that's it for today!