Hello! Best day of spring so far! I am so sleepy now – soaking up all that sun for a change (Vitamin D Overload)
Our friends left late morning after a lovely couple of days catching up. I was going to take it easy, but… too good of a day to waste!
First step – finishing pruning the raspberries and cutting out the dead canes.
I unstrung the rows and got into cutting out the dead stuff… and an oopsie on cutting off three growing ones accidentally!! Grrrr!!
All cleaned up and restrung – did some weeding too and I have a new anti-favourite weed. It hangs on like the docks, but it is multiple legged – like an octopus and wraps itself around everything and is a shocker to pull out. My hands/wrists are sore tonight! Plus it was kind of slippery-muddy in the ground so all weeds were hard to get proper hold of!
These lines give the canes a bit more stability when the wind gets up. I have also tied bunches together to stop them growing haywire out sideways.
Green manure going ahead in leaps and bounds
Lucky lettuce plants got let out of their milk containers today 🙂
Then it was onto my ’round two’ of planting runner beans
I redug the area and also dug through some mushroom compost
Hopefully this lot will start growing before a new batch of baby millipedes start to snack on them!
Two rows in again, covered and watered.
Still sunshine left… so I trotted off to the duck yard to get the beetroot in
To my delight, I saw a few potato plants poking through the soil! This was despite my husband wantonly trampling all over BOTH patches to catch two naughty chooks that got in there because ‘they might have damaged the garden’Â eek
I am banking on the toughness of potatoes!! (and Jeff’s amazing weight loss over the course of this year! haha)
The patch that I intended for the beetroot that I dug up a few weeks ago was full of big clumpy bits, so I got down and crumbled it best I could
Dumped in a bag of mushroom compost –
Worked all that through then planted & watered my beetroot seeds!
Best day I have had in the garden for a while! Very satisfying. Fingers crossed for a few more gorgeous days like this in the near future!
Hope everybody’s Friday is superlative!
Cheers!
Hello Lisa!
I love your raspberry rows with the structure that allows them to be protected with netting from hungry birds!
Happy Spring!
Thank-you! We decided to make sure we had some structure in place right from the start so we wouldn’t be fighting the birds or makeshift netting. I am so glad we took the time to do that! I prefer ME to be eating all that fruit! 😀
Sounds like a wonderful day in your garden!! You got a lot done. There is nothing more gratifying than a good day in the dirt! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Pat! Its just lovely being out there again properly (not just in between rainstorms!) Oh – and the end of day shower is divine! 😀 Have a lovely day!