Yes, I’ve been dealing with some timber issues.<\/p>\n
But first, I was up even before the final alarm sounded. I’d made breakfast and coffee and was back up here with my food by the time it went off.<\/p>\n
I was on the web pages at 08:45 too and that has to be something of a record and I did two full pages before finishing at 12:00 and then it was off outside. And first thing that I noticed was that two more courgette plants are rearing their pretty little heads.<\/p>\n
Now, if you remember the story of the raised bed that will contain the soft fruit, that was hacked out a few years ago of what was the jungle. But with all of the old weeds dying off and the new ones not quite established, it was possible to clear quite a large area around it, and so I attacked that today.<\/p>\n
Surrounding the bed are lots of those horrible ground elder trees that sprout up like forests in just a year or two. I’ve hacked down about a dozen of those and they are stacked out to dry for a couple of years. One day, I’ll pull up the roots too.<\/p>\n
Now, the sunlight streams onto the soft fruit bed almost all the day, which is what should happen.<\/p>\n
There was an apple tree that had been flattened and was growing horizontally. I had a couple of tree stakes and so I’ve now staked that tree upright in the vertical – and it’s blooming now.<\/p>\n
When I cleared the ground for the bed, I stacked some of these ground elder trees and od course they are now bone-dry. I ended up with two barrow-loads of small kindling that will do me for much of next winter and there’s still plenty to go at. I need to clear some space though in order to have a decent garden fire.<\/p>\n
Final job was to water all of the plants in the garden. A hot day today, so they needed it. <\/p>\n
And I can see that I’ll have to start some weeding soon.<\/p>\n
