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01/02/2007
End of year update
Well, the blog (like the garden) has been neglected for a few months. Managed to get out in the garden on Sunday for a few hours - windy but a pleasant cold sunny day.
Pulled up the last of the carrots - these will be fed to the guinea pigs I reckon; had a few sprouts and parsnips, too, plus lots of parsley.
Pruned the crab apple trees; both had a lot of vigorous stuff growing up from the roots; I assume from below the graft. Also pruned the gooseberries and took a little off the two minarette apple trees - just took out a couple of crossing branches. Had a general tidy-up and weed of the veg patches - put the old asparagus fern on the compost heap, weeded around the onions & garlic planted in the autumn, cut down the chrysanths, put some compost over the top of the dahlia tubers, which I don't bother to dig-up in the winter any more. Thanks to Alex for helping! There is a great deal of tidying up to be done before spring, though. Yasmin's friend Kate has just taken on an allotment; she has three kids under 5; if she can manage it, so can I!
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