Gardening Leave
Aprilia has been at Nelly’s all day and is making an attempt at a sleep over tonight on the grounds that she can slurp melatonin laced hot chocolate and hopefully actually SLEEP! I’m expecting a phonecall in another 2 hours……
This has left me with some free time. Yes, I know, aren’t I the lucky girlie! I’ve nearly finished listening to The Ode Less Travelled and have pootled about generally in the garden. Then Duke came home and dragged me kicking and screaming to the garden centre and *forced* me to buy strawberry plants, seed potatoes, onion sets, some asparagus shoots (not to enjoy this year sadly, it says to leave it alone this year to establish), various seeds and bags to grow the strawberries in. Just need to get growbags now and I’ll probably get them delivered to save my poor car!
I’ve made the decision to container garden again mainly this year, from experience, spuds are much better in bags than in clay, as are carrots. Onion and asparagus appear to need well drained soil too so they need tubs and lifting strawberries off our cold clay soil does seem a good idea! So, the plan is that I’ll put last year’s compost onto the soil and then lay weed matting down for this year and pop tubs ontop, then at the end of the year I’ll chuck the contents of the tubs on top of the compost, rotovate it, add in this year’s compost (which, I know, won’t be fully finished but never mind) and cover it back up again in the hopes that next spring the beds will be in a reasonable state for most things although root crops will have to stay in tubs for a few more years methinks.
