A lovely day with a leisurely late start. I didn't do much til after Gardener's Question time, when I went outside to do some real gardening of my own.
I first spent quite a while cutting back a load of shrubs which form a boundary between ours and next door... it's not really a hedge, more a border with assorted small trees, brambles, ground elder, Vinca and Alkanet. I ripped and cut loads out, including a large Hebe which died over winter.
This made space for me to get to the back of the raised bed where I replaced a bean wigwam which had been in 2 years and was getting brittle. I wired together 3 long branches and made another. Then I planted out quite a few of the Pea Beans in toilet rolls, two plants per leg of the wigwam. I also planted out 9 curly kale plants, 6 sweetcorn, and got a load of seedling American Land Cress and Perpetual Spinach put in the pots they vacated and I'll either sell them down at Country Fresh or at some charity event.
So I was happy to have got some planting done. In the evening I signed up to use eBay as I have a few things to sell, and spent some time getting a free business card deal together. The company even offer an online version.
A very late evening as one of my friends was in crisis and I spent some time on the phone, after 2am.
I first spent quite a while cutting back a load of shrubs which form a boundary between ours and next door... it's not really a hedge, more a border with assorted small trees, brambles, ground elder, Vinca and Alkanet. I ripped and cut loads out, including a large Hebe which died over winter.
This made space for me to get to the back of the raised bed where I replaced a bean wigwam which had been in 2 years and was getting brittle. I wired together 3 long branches and made another. Then I planted out quite a few of the Pea Beans in toilet rolls, two plants per leg of the wigwam. I also planted out 9 curly kale plants, 6 sweetcorn, and got a load of seedling American Land Cress and Perpetual Spinach put in the pots they vacated and I'll either sell them down at Country Fresh or at some charity event.
So I was happy to have got some planting done. In the evening I signed up to use eBay as I have a few things to sell, and spent some time getting a free business card deal together. The company even offer an online version.
A very late evening as one of my friends was in crisis and I spent some time on the phone, after 2am.
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