This week I have mostly pottered about in the garden. I cut the grass again, so the 'lawn' is improving. Yesterday I weeded the vegetable patch and removed a lot of Willow herb roots; these are long and white and break fairly easily, so I will have to watch out for those. I then raked it over and replaced the netting (damn cats). Speaking of cats, I have had two face-offs with the big ginger one this week. I won.
Today we uncovered the veg patch and planted heritage broad beans, garlic and shallots. I know you probably shouldn't mix them, but they needed planting and I don't have much space yet. I got a length of wood from the shed to form drills with in the soil, so everything was in reasonably straight lines. My daughter then wrote the name of each item on a lollipop stick and we labelled the rows. Watered everything and then put the netting back. Can't wait to eat some homegrown food!
Afterwards I started clearing the next patch, which wasn't too difficult. Should finish it next week if the weather holds. I also potted up a Buddleia seedling and sowed some wildflower seeds in a pot that a friend had given me, and sowed some sunflower seeds in pots.
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| Vegetable patch after planting. |
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| Vegetable patch 2 before clearing |
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| Vegetable patch 2 half way through clearing. |
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