2009
Happy belated New Year
Well it has been several months since I have typed into this blog...and not much to say today either! Been digging up potatoes, letting the brussel sprouts go to waste (oops) and collecting fruit and pretty much finished everything this year.
A bit of tidying up to do - the new shed has lasted very well considering it is an old filing cabinet - slight rust starting at the base and hinges think it has one more year from it until it will be turned into a raised bed?
I bought heaps of plants and small trees to make into a fruiting hedge down the right of the plot - from Hedgehog Nurseries. Sent to my work (and kindly placed into the car boot by the helpful security man Mike). Kept me busy planting them half a day as I studiously measured the planting spaces for the first 10 then gave up and dug holes and squished them in any old way hahaha. The trees are a mixture of hazel, beech and hawthorn while the bush type ones are dogwood, dog rose, wild rose and blackthorn. As I labeled all the twigs before I planted them, the finished line has lots of white tags blowing gaily in the wind, very pretty for this time of year when most of the plot is dirt and weeds.
I will be moving at the end of this month so need to get organised for that - even less time at no 55 and I am dreading the possibility that our new house might be too far away from the plot for me to keep it on...I think I will manage and don't want to think too much about that just now - too busy packing away everything for the move. Although I am sure the council might have plots close the the new house too :-)
Well it has been several months since I have typed into this blog...and not much to say today either! Been digging up potatoes, letting the brussel sprouts go to waste (oops) and collecting fruit and pretty much finished everything this year.
A bit of tidying up to do - the new shed has lasted very well considering it is an old filing cabinet - slight rust starting at the base and hinges think it has one more year from it until it will be turned into a raised bed?
I bought heaps of plants and small trees to make into a fruiting hedge down the right of the plot - from Hedgehog Nurseries. Sent to my work (and kindly placed into the car boot by the helpful security man Mike). Kept me busy planting them half a day as I studiously measured the planting spaces for the first 10 then gave up and dug holes and squished them in any old way hahaha. The trees are a mixture of hazel, beech and hawthorn while the bush type ones are dogwood, dog rose, wild rose and blackthorn. As I labeled all the twigs before I planted them, the finished line has lots of white tags blowing gaily in the wind, very pretty for this time of year when most of the plot is dirt and weeds.
I will be moving at the end of this month so need to get organised for that - even less time at no 55 and I am dreading the possibility that our new house might be too far away from the plot for me to keep it on...I think I will manage and don't want to think too much about that just now - too busy packing away everything for the move. Although I am sure the council might have plots close the the new house too :-)
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