What a weekend. The new shed is up. We ordered a skip in the week and spent most of Friday evening and Saturday morning breaking up old paving slabs and putting them in it along with the remains of the old shed, sundry pieces of brick and lumps of wood and anything else that wasn’t moving!
We also dug a bit more of the vegetable bed and got some peas in and a couple of small rows of chrysanthemums so we can have cut flowers in the summer and autumn. Still need to plant carrots and lettuces and should put in some more radishes and spring onions, but we’ve mostly managed everything. We’re pretty pleased with our efforts, and it should be a lot easier next year without all the garden re-arranging.
We dug around the outside of the new shed and removed as much Japanese Anenome root as we could. It seems a shame to get rid of them because they are lovely, but they are very invasive. I’m sure they will try to grow again, but I will declare war on them with contact poison as they come up. Re-planted the area with some summer bedding and planted some nasturtium seeds. They’ll brighten up the area and the leaves are excellent on salads.
We earthed up the potatoes again. They seem to have gone berserk, hopefully the end product will be good. Everything else we’ve planted seems to be doing quite well, but there’s still no sign of the parsnips. Some of the radishes should ready to eat soon. We’ll be able to have a ceremonial eating of the first fruits (vegs?).
Lawn has been cut, vegetable beds weeded apart from the two thin lines where the parsnips should come up. I don’t know what a parsnip seedling looks like so everything that’s nearby will have to stay until I’m sure one way or the other. The perennial border looks good despite having very little time spent on it. We do have half a dozen new plants to put in it but I’m not sure that will happen before we go on holiday.
We’ve bought a new plastic compost bin to replace the rotten wooden one. It needs to go where the old one was, so that’s going to require a bit of spadework.
Late on Sunday afternoon after we’d stood back and admired the look of the garden we thought we ought to give everything a good watering in. Having done that the heavens opened and we had the majority of June’s rainfall in a couple of hours.
We also dug a bit more of the vegetable bed and got some peas in and a couple of small rows of chrysanthemums so we can have cut flowers in the summer and autumn. Still need to plant carrots and lettuces and should put in some more radishes and spring onions, but we’ve mostly managed everything. We’re pretty pleased with our efforts, and it should be a lot easier next year without all the garden re-arranging.
We dug around the outside of the new shed and removed as much Japanese Anenome root as we could. It seems a shame to get rid of them because they are lovely, but they are very invasive. I’m sure they will try to grow again, but I will declare war on them with contact poison as they come up. Re-planted the area with some summer bedding and planted some nasturtium seeds. They’ll brighten up the area and the leaves are excellent on salads.
We earthed up the potatoes again. They seem to have gone berserk, hopefully the end product will be good. Everything else we’ve planted seems to be doing quite well, but there’s still no sign of the parsnips. Some of the radishes should ready to eat soon. We’ll be able to have a ceremonial eating of the first fruits (vegs?).
Lawn has been cut, vegetable beds weeded apart from the two thin lines where the parsnips should come up. I don’t know what a parsnip seedling looks like so everything that’s nearby will have to stay until I’m sure one way or the other. The perennial border looks good despite having very little time spent on it. We do have half a dozen new plants to put in it but I’m not sure that will happen before we go on holiday.
We’ve bought a new plastic compost bin to replace the rotten wooden one. It needs to go where the old one was, so that’s going to require a bit of spadework.
Late on Sunday afternoon after we’d stood back and admired the look of the garden we thought we ought to give everything a good watering in. Having done that the heavens opened and we had the majority of June’s rainfall in a couple of hours.
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