Hello, I'm back out in the garden today, well, I'm in the greenhouse at the moment, but
the only reason I'm in here as I was just popping some pots in here that I've
emptied out in the garden, and as I put the pots down I disturbed a little
cluster or very tiny spiders. I'm pretty sure the baby spiders.
I'm quite fearful of them generally, I write about them endlessly in terms of
why why can't they go in there somewhere else, and I think I've even vlogged about
them, saying you wish they'd go and somewhere else. But baby spiders are
a completely different kettle of fish. I think they're really, really cute and it
fascinates me the way that tight-knit cluster babies, when, if you touch
their web they go whoooo and it all spreads out, And then when they feel safe again,
they go back into the huddle - clever!
It seems that today has turned out to be another one of those days where I fully
intended to to get up and have a shower and wash my hair. I ended just having a
quick, wash forgetting about my hair and now it's so late into the day, it
doesn't really seem worth worrying about. So once again, sorry about the bed hair
even though it's now two o'clock in the afternoon. Some of the little jobs that Mr J
and I have managed to get on with today - is breaking up some old wood into
kindling to store in the piggery until next year. It came from two
different places, one was a damson tree that had died and we gathered all the
bits that were savable and hadn't already rotted. Took them to the back of
the piggeries two years ago, so they've sat there rain and shine, snow and wind for the
last two years. But anyway, now we have broken them into bite-sized pieces, well,
kindling sized pieces!
What have you found? Ooh, a hand rake!
That was a good find!
And they're stored in the piggery in the dry so when we want to use them,
come October/November, they should be nice and dry. And the other
source of kindling wood there was some branches from a holly tree which we had
pruned. We didn't have it taken out, but it was in a real awkward
place, but we've left it in and had it quite heavily pruned, because
it was starting to damage the roof of the piggery, so we had it taken
down. As it turned out, the roof of the piggery was already beyond
beyond repair and it just disintegrated. However that's all by the by,
we had lots of wood, just little twiggy branches that are also broken
down now and stored in boxes in the piggery for the winter. What it does mean
is that we've tidied up that area a bit and it will be much easier when we come
to just cutting down the nettles, if we're not trying to then cut
through branches as well! I've also finished planting the Fallgold raspberries
into the raised bed the very far end of the annual vegetable garden.
Mr J and I have been talking about what sort of raised bed we want to
make, or not, for the asparagus to go in. So having decided where it's going to
go, we're now trying to work out whether we want to make a very deep raised bed,
hugelkultur style like we did for the herb bed in the front garden or
whether to keep it in a fairly low bed. It's going to be there for many, many
years, so we kind of need to make the right decision. I think it would be
better to make the right decision sooner rather than later, so we can actually get
that asparagus to the ground. Well that's it for me
today, the wind is picking up and we've got with some black clouds coming overhead.
And so, wherever you are in the world and whatever you've got planned
for today, I hope it's a good one and I also hope you'll join me again tomorrow!