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02/07/2006
More tidying up
Didn't get too much done this weekend - we had a visit from a 1 year old, which was more fun than chopping stuff.
Managed to give the Euphorbia a good trim - not sure which species it is, but it's approaching 5 foot high and was shading the greenhouse a fair bit. Cut out all the stems which had flowered last year and generally reduced the ize.
Tidied out the rosebed completely - it was completely covered in fallen leaves and lots of weeds. Put the leaves on the compost heap, pulled out all the weeds, did some pruning of the roses. I keep meaning to remove this bed completely, not really a fan of roses and it's in a place where the boys can potentially get cut by thorns. Need to think about what to replace it with, though. Lots of winter aconites were hiding under the fallen leaves, they look quite nice.
Then set to work on the shady bed under the larch tree. This was in pretty poor condition, with lots of weeds and will need some more planting come spring.
Went to Springfield nursery in Great Chesterford, but didn't buy anything - was on the lookout for some blueberries (they had only 1 variety, at £9.99 each, but you need 2 varieties for pollination). Also want Cape Goosebery seeds, but they had none.
Noticed that Tesco were selling winter jasmine plants for a fiver - I chucked half a dozen of them away last week!
Anyway, our local zoo was selling Tapir & Zebra manure, bagged up. They'll deliver trailerloads locally. Was thinking of posting on allotments4all to see if anyone knew how long Tapir manure had to be composted for before use....
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