Oh dear I have rather neglected the blog. But i have been keeping notes at least as various visitors passed through and now last two weeks I have regained control of the veg garden from the weeds 🙂
So wot gwan? Well, I have been planting trees (and bushes). I have been cutting back gorse (broom luckily). I been strimming. I thinned the apples. I encouraged the pears. I used the old bridge panels to kill weeds. I ate blackcurrants again!!!
In the veg garden, successes include wizard hats (YASSSS), strawberries (much better than last year), potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce. Meh include peas, squash. Failures are many hey ho and include the early peas, the brussel sprouts, the early squash, the salad leaves, an dmore i have forgot.
Many of these things deserve individual updates but prob will not receive them.
The cats? Grounded to protect the birds.
The birds? Awww five swallow bebbies this week, so damn cute. First they perched all together then they flew unceratinly and now they go off on day trips. I heart Hirundinidae
Sparrows / buntings are cool, i occasioanlly meet/scare a heron on the burn, pigeon always on drive, song thruses in the field that’s nice.
BUT
The bloody clegs are back as well.