Up and down the track she went eight times, trundling along with a wheelbarrow, up empty, down full of horse manure. She made a new raised bed last weekend with double board edges and being so high, it took a LOT of manure to fill it to the top of the boards.
After this, seemingly endless, trundling back and forth, it was light work to plant all the cloves from two huge garlic into beds that she made in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Worm had pulled the manure that she had covered them in down into the soil and it's light and fluffy and, it was weed free!
It was a glorious day! Too chilly for me to go but she was wearing cold weather clothes and boots and had a woollen hat for when the sun went down. Short hair and chilly autumnal days equal cold ears!
And.. She is.. OH.. SO happy! The tree surgeons have been and taken down all of the dreaded self-seeded sycamore trees which covered the plot to the east / south east of our plots numbers 39 and 41.
There were so many of them and they were so big we never got sunshine until after 1.30pm and now the difference in light on our plots is truly amazing!
At 4pm, with the sun and the temperature dropping fast, it was time to gather her tools together, lock up the Shack and catch the bus home but not before she had gathered a bag of winter leaves, sorrel, chard, cabbage, endive, which is going crimson as the temperature drops, spinach, mizuna and landcress.
There weren't enough to put in a box to bring home but certainly enough to pop into her mouth and savour.. ah, Autumn Raspberries but there were lots of glorious roses to pick. Pristine, Peace, Ellen, Compassion being some of them.
She's off there again tomorrow at some outrageous hour to meet Corinne, they're renting a van and collecting as many pallets as they can to repair their fences and will use the van to carry giant Hippo bags full of manure down to their plots.
Corinne will bring a home-made yumyum, she's a 'serious' baker and mum will produce proper coffee. The weather forecast is for a bright sunny day.. sounds good to me.
I'll doze at home.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 5th, 2017.
After this, seemingly endless, trundling back and forth, it was light work to plant all the cloves from two huge garlic into beds that she made in September.
Mr. and Mrs. Worm had pulled the manure that she had covered them in down into the soil and it's light and fluffy and, it was weed free!
It was a glorious day! Too chilly for me to go but she was wearing cold weather clothes and boots and had a woollen hat for when the sun went down. Short hair and chilly autumnal days equal cold ears!
And.. She is.. OH.. SO happy! The tree surgeons have been and taken down all of the dreaded self-seeded sycamore trees which covered the plot to the east / south east of our plots numbers 39 and 41.
There were so many of them and they were so big we never got sunshine until after 1.30pm and now the difference in light on our plots is truly amazing!
At 4pm, with the sun and the temperature dropping fast, it was time to gather her tools together, lock up the Shack and catch the bus home but not before she had gathered a bag of winter leaves, sorrel, chard, cabbage, endive, which is going crimson as the temperature drops, spinach, mizuna and landcress.
There weren't enough to put in a box to bring home but certainly enough to pop into her mouth and savour.. ah, Autumn Raspberries but there were lots of glorious roses to pick. Pristine, Peace, Ellen, Compassion being some of them.
She's off there again tomorrow at some outrageous hour to meet Corinne, they're renting a van and collecting as many pallets as they can to repair their fences and will use the van to carry giant Hippo bags full of manure down to their plots.
Corinne will bring a home-made yumyum, she's a 'serious' baker and mum will produce proper coffee. The weather forecast is for a bright sunny day.. sounds good to me.
I'll doze at home.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 5th, 2017.
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