2023 - What I did today

Not today, but yesterday:

Pruned my currant bushes (two small ones that I've planted, plus a big blackcurrant that came with the garden)

Pruned the tree at the bottom of the garden (maybe a poplar? I'm not sure if I quite decided what it was last year) so that it's not hanging over the greenhouse as much and isn't as tall. I need to get a ladder out to prune the top of the central trunk though. No idea if I'm pruning it correctly seeing as I don't actually know what it is, but I do know I can't let it get much bigger. Put my new pruning saw to good use doing it, and now have a supply of beanpoles!

Decided to follow on from that success by pruning the Mystery Shrub. A huge well-established shrub that was an absolute tangle of thin branches. I left it last year so that I could identify it before tackling it. However, it ended up absolutely infested with caterpillars so I never got to see proper leaves. I decided it needed thinning out to minimise the risk of another infestation and have chopped it back to three main stems. It is a fraction of the size it was. Hope I haven't destroyed it!

Finally, I did some weeding, though there's loads more general tidying and sorting to be done.

Haven't done any sowing yet. Unfortunately, for work reasons, I'm not going to be able to grow anything that will have to spend the summer in the greenhouse this year. So no chillies or aubergines, and I'm going to have to be very careful about choosing just a couple of tomatoes that will be happy outside.