Hello!
Little spring flowers are starting to show up!
Today was quite a nice day, so we managed to get some useful outside things done.
We put newspaper and cardboard down and topped this with woodchips… still need some more to finish the top end but it looks 100% from before when it was all crazy weeds
The trailer is full of soil that we got from Sharons the other day. I thought I should top up the strawberry patches as a start
I ended up sieving the soil – roughly – just to remove big rocks or roots.
I then mixed it in with the leftover cow-poo-straw which made a nice mix (If you are into that sort of stuff…)
It went on top of the pine bark
Ready – time to scavenge about for strawberry plants. They all were looking a bit tiny and sad
I got quite a few out of this patch – I need to rescue the remainder and do some topping up here next!!
Slightly underwhelming so far… hopefully they will like the new patch and sit up well within a month or two.
This was the bed last season that killed two plantings of strawberries! (I still am completely clueless why!!) It ended up with tomatoes instead.
Hopefully this new improved mix will be agreeable for them!
I also weeded this patch and added the remaining soil mix – needs a bit more of a top up but I reckon it will be the place for lettuce and rocket.
Anyway – things are happening.
I guess I’ll need to sort my seeds and get cracking on the planting soon!!
Yay
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Cheers
