I spent quite a lovely afternoon scratching about the garden. I had domestic overload yesterday, so I was pretty keen to get outside.
As I mentioned a few days back, the main vegetable patch is a bit over run and weedy and I was pretty keen to start sorting it out.
I really didn’t get very far before the weather set in and got colder and damper than I was happy being – and the weeding here is pretty slow as there are so many tiny little weeds to fiddle about with!
I kept having to catch and throw chickens over the fence that were getting into the lower garden somehow! I need to revamp my fences ASAP
I noticed I was lacking a few chickens during the bread frenzy – I stuck my head in the coop to see 4 of them trying to lay an egg in the same nesting box! Idiots! (Two jumped down straight away before I could get the photo as they spied the bread!)
Since I was already filthy, I didn’t want to quit my gardening day, so I figured clearing out the hothouse was a good move
The tangle of dead tomato bush on the right bottom is a plant that has been growing for over 18 months! I had taken a lateral at the end of a season, kept it alive over winter, then replanted it in the hothouse. Amazing. (By the way I managed to kill ALL the laterals I was trying to winter this year!!)
After I cleared things up, weeded and dug, I put some of the compost that we got from the local nursery around all the remaining plants.
I sadly picked my last tomatoes. Now the long wait until the next season gets underway (I won’t buy shop tomatoes anymore. We just go without for a while. Too expensive for no flavour.)
I found a bag of bulbs that were desperately trying to grow! Poor things.
I shoved them in the little garden behind the hothouse, so its up to them now.
And what is a day in Flowerdale without a rainbow or six??
Hope your Sunday was/is brilliant!
Cheers!
