2021 - What I did today

This week I've been up in Bolton getting my daughter's new house ready for her to move in after Easter. As a moving-in present I've built her a raised bed in her tiny paved back yard. I was rather constrained to only use materials I could carry through the house, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.



The bed is currently getting just 2 hours of afternoon sun, hopefully this will be enough to get things going and it might get a bit more in the height of summer. I've given her some chitted potatoes to put in, and she's got some onion seedlings coming along nicely on the windowsill. I reckon a few sweet peas would be good on that trellis, too.

While I was up there, I made a Dowding-type no-dig bed for my son in Salford. He's not a gardener but he does like to cook so I have hopes of converting him yet. He had plenty of cardboard, I donated all my old compost from last year and topped it up with four bags of JI 2 from the local shed. I've never done this before, I've always been a digger, so it will be interesting to see what happens. I put it in the brightest spot, but it doesn't get much more direct sunlight than the daughter's yard.



I'm not doing much in my own garden apart from routine maintenance. Hopefully we will get some action on the house move soon, the agent is confident we should be in by the end of June at least. We'll see.

I lived in Salford when I went to Uni and I stayed on when I worked. 
 A couple of places. Salford quays before the makeover - it was quick to walk into town from there. Alf from Corrie lived in the flat above  
Thems were the days!