| #771 |
Well... I have NOT hoovered for months (Jay does it all, bless him)
We have had fantastic weather the last couple of weeks so I have....
- planted some cuttings from elder and hydrangea in a spot that was recently cleared of couch grass.
- sowed radish, various kinds of beans and peas
- planted out leeks
- moved a red currant bush that I planted behind the barn. It's the only thing that survived - the blueberries, black currants, gooseberry and raspberries all gave up the ghost. The ground is very, very stony, and I didn't realise until I was in the middle of planting them, and then I ran out of time to move them before they met their maker. The red currant bush has joined the rhubarb, raspberry tree and the raspberry in front of the house.
- collected loads and loads of aquilegia seeds from plants of all colours (I can't remember which colours they all were!). Are they good to sow now, for little plants ready for spring?
- been chanterelle picking, along with lingonberries and other mushrooms. I have a gigantic mushroom book that I am learning loads from.
- found that blueberries, or bilberries as they are called in the UK, are having a really bad year here. I have found at most twenty berries since I started looking.
- assisted Jay in cutting up a huge tree that fell during a storm last winter, with the aim to have it for firewood. We cut it in half and since it had fallen across a narrow part of the pond, we had to drag it up the other side with the car. It went swimmingly, pardon the pun. We will drag up the rest at the weekend.
- been weeding all four veg beds, and not much is coming up since then. I just need to weed the paths now.
- got the shredder fixed, and planning on using that lots over the coming weeks, as we are pruning the hazelnuts, coinciding hopefully with the harvest. The nuts are a good size! The bushes are just desperate for pruning. If we want to, we can prune the neighbour's hazel bushes too, but I think they're too shaded to ever have a decent harvest.
- established that we are not getting a single plum this year.
We have had fantastic weather the last couple of weeks so I have....
- planted some cuttings from elder and hydrangea in a spot that was recently cleared of couch grass.
- sowed radish, various kinds of beans and peas
- planted out leeks
- moved a red currant bush that I planted behind the barn. It's the only thing that survived - the blueberries, black currants, gooseberry and raspberries all gave up the ghost. The ground is very, very stony, and I didn't realise until I was in the middle of planting them, and then I ran out of time to move them before they met their maker. The red currant bush has joined the rhubarb, raspberry tree and the raspberry in front of the house.
- collected loads and loads of aquilegia seeds from plants of all colours (I can't remember which colours they all were!). Are they good to sow now, for little plants ready for spring?
- been chanterelle picking, along with lingonberries and other mushrooms. I have a gigantic mushroom book that I am learning loads from.
- found that blueberries, or bilberries as they are called in the UK, are having a really bad year here. I have found at most twenty berries since I started looking.
- assisted Jay in cutting up a huge tree that fell during a storm last winter, with the aim to have it for firewood. We cut it in half and since it had fallen across a narrow part of the pond, we had to drag it up the other side with the car. It went swimmingly, pardon the pun. We will drag up the rest at the weekend.
- been weeding all four veg beds, and not much is coming up since then. I just need to weed the paths now.
- got the shredder fixed, and planning on using that lots over the coming weeks, as we are pruning the hazelnuts, coinciding hopefully with the harvest. The nuts are a good size! The bushes are just desperate for pruning. If we want to, we can prune the neighbour's hazel bushes too, but I think they're too shaded to ever have a decent harvest.
- established that we are not getting a single plum this year.
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