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02/24/2006
Routine Maintenance
Not too much exciting stuff to add here. At the weekend, I cut back the ivy down the side of the house, also pruned the adjacent mixed hedge. Cut all the herbaceous perennials in the 'railway beds' next to the patio down to the ground and did a bit of weeding. Moved all the old roof tiles stacked on the patio down to by the shed. Haven't decided what to do with these yet - they just seem like they'll be useful for something.
Acquired two blueberry plants (Bluecrop and Goldtraube 71) and planted these in large pots of ericaceous compost. Also planted a Gaultheria procumbens in the bed that has all the other ericaceous plants. Have two of these already, but it was only 50p at B&Q because it's berries were looking a bit past it! Potted up some aconites - some to give to dad, others dug up and posted to an A4A poster who wanted some. Also potted on some of the bay trees which were in danger of getting potbound in spring. Have about 25 bay trees in pots now, plan is to start training them as standards when they grow some more. Plenty spare plants to let me learn how to do it!
On Sunday, worked in the fruit cage and veg patch. Finished tidying up the strawberries, tied in all the raspberries applied a few cm of compost everywhere and removed all weeds. Quite a satisfying result. Just need a bit of maintenance to the actual cage now. Also put some compost on some of the empty veg beds, removed some old plant material and did a bit of weeding. Cut back the crysanthemums in the veg garden. Quite a few are dead, so will probably put a few spot plants (eg lettuce or chard) in the gaps. Harvested sprouts and leeks for roast dinner.
In the week, got seeds from ready to grow - cape gooseberry, naranjilla, dwarf pomegranate and huckleberry. Looking forward to trying naranjilla for first time. Also got various kinds of potato from kind lady from A4A :-) and started these off chitting.
Bit of snow during the week and frost, too - paraffin heater on a couple of nights in the greenhouse
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