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Looking good!

The plots looking good even if I do say so myself.  For the past few weeks we’ve managed to re-weed most of the plot and also add some more veg.  We’ve add some cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli and broad beans to the site and the pigeons had a field day!  We returned 4 days later to find the plants decimated – we knew something like this was going to happen but just tried to chance it.  We paid the price.  I had to replace 50% of the plants yesterday with new ones from the garden center.

I guess you live and learn.

I then purchased some netting for the plants and using some of my daughters ball pit ball’s made a nice little ‘cage’.

I’ve also added some Globe Artichoke and 2 Butternut Squash – we’ve now run out of space. 

Next year I’m going to plan the space a little better and hopefully take over the back part of the plot as it’s now severely over grown.  We’ll see I guess.

 

 

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At least I did something today.

Been feeling absolutely rubbish all week, had a bit of a cold, but Sunday came around and I had just two hours to dig.  I got on site about 10:00am and I was the only person there, I had a quick look over the patch and it looked like I’d loads more to do than I thought.

I started digging away, still trying to remove the strawberry patch, and I found that the soil was slightly damp and quite hard work to turn over.  I also found there was a load more weeds (Couch grass I think) here, I fill my bucket up in seconds.  I think I’ll have to see if I can have a controlled fire in one of those metal bins with the chimney on the top.

Once nice part of the day was the Robin that seemed to be very friendly and allowed me to get very close.  Whilst he was eating some of my worms, he was also eating grubs and other insects that we’re turned over.  He ate one particularly crunchy fly, I could hear every mouthful!

Robin helping me dig.

 I don’t feel like I’ve achieved much today but I’m just happy I got out, I headed home just before 12pm.

 

 

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