WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

Fruit picking, that's all I'm doing at the moment.

 

I see lots of jams and pies in the making.

 

Yes some jam and a lot of pies, a lot will be put in the freezer as they are to use later.

 

watching the grass grow.

 

After four days of work, we have finally finished cutting the hedge. I also got the hose out today because despite the wet weather we have had recently there are still large areas of the garden that are bone dry and that is despite it being clay soil.

 

Moved two grasses and two small shrubs that would be happier with a bit more moisture. Lifted the garlic and some of the shallots, finished two rows of peas, removed plants and dug over and then sowed green manure on that patch (buckwheat, fenugreek and phacelia). Planted late cropping potatoes where garlic had been.
As well as the peas picked a few French beans and some brambles plus a cucumber.
Strimmed some of the long grassy bits and annoyed a lot of grasshoppers and crickets. Listend to the 4th Ashes Test match.

 

Do you have a fire before the stubble is ploughed in, @shiney? We're surrounded by wheat stubble at the moment, and the bonfire heap is embarrassingly large, but I daren't sort it until the stubble has been ploughed in. According to recent EU directives, the farmers are no longer permitted to turn it in straight after harvest God knows what the reasoning is behind that particular piece of idiocy.....

 

I remember stubble-burning. A few die-hard older farmers round here still 'accidentally' set light to a field or two. Thankfully, not our neighbours. It's very frustrating for them, though, as their fields were all beautifully cultivated, ditches shorn and edges of woodland tidied within a couple of weeks of harvest. Now they're not allowed to use weedkillers and can't cultivate, so have to sit on their hands and watch the weeds take over....

 

I was going out to spray weedkiller through the fence behind our neighbour's garage but as I went to my workshop to mix up the solution it started raining. A pity, as there is hardly a breath of wind today.

 

Cut down three dead shrubs, plus a load of invading brambles.

 

Cut the Grass before it rained. Oh and watched football on TV.

 

Now I am cutting the grass.