Therapy
- By Haidee Clarke
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- 12 Feb, 2019
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Today..... we are mostly feeling a little damp
Despite having our eyes poked out by big lumps of hail at the weekend, we finally managed to get out an do some real work in the vegetable garden. Actually despite the random showers we enjoyed being out on the windy hill. It is starting to feel a bit like spring out there!
In an ideal world we would have created the raised beds we want, but life gets in the way. However, one hour, a bit of chicken wire and a couple of old fence posts, and we managed to create another rabbit-proof area in the garden. The children will have a small area each in which to grow the things they want, plus we will be able to move our gooseberry bushes behind fencing. Which roughly translated means the children get to learn to look after their own vegetables and the gooseberries will no longer be exposed to those naughty chickens!
Along the rear side of the fence we have decided to plant the sweet peas that are currently looking like triffids in their propagators. We fear that we have gone in too early on the propagation front as the lids had to be removed; the new plants had shot up too much and were already trying to break out . Also fearing that we will be strangled in our sleep [we had to move the propagator tray into our bedroom to get more light]. All that aside, as long as we can keep those plants under control and they make it through to plant out, they will be planted in two trenches that were dug between the fence and stone wall. The trenches were dug to accommodate a pile of weathered ash, the contents of old pots and some dead cut flowers. According to Terry Walton, this is perfect compost for the sweet peas, whilst freeing up some soil for use across the rest of the garden. It also gave us an excuse for a tidy!
In an ideal world we would have created the raised beds we want, but life gets in the way. However, one hour, a bit of chicken wire and a couple of old fence posts, and we managed to create another rabbit-proof area in the garden. The children will have a small area each in which to grow the things they want, plus we will be able to move our gooseberry bushes behind fencing. Which roughly translated means the children get to learn to look after their own vegetables and the gooseberries will no longer be exposed to those naughty chickens!
Along the rear side of the fence we have decided to plant the sweet peas that are currently looking like triffids in their propagators. We fear that we have gone in too early on the propagation front as the lids had to be removed; the new plants had shot up too much and were already trying to break out . Also fearing that we will be strangled in our sleep [we had to move the propagator tray into our bedroom to get more light]. All that aside, as long as we can keep those plants under control and they make it through to plant out, they will be planted in two trenches that were dug between the fence and stone wall. The trenches were dug to accommodate a pile of weathered ash, the contents of old pots and some dead cut flowers. According to Terry Walton, this is perfect compost for the sweet peas, whilst freeing up some soil for use across the rest of the garden. It also gave us an excuse for a tidy!