Neatly Trimmed Bush
Bear with me if my spellings a bit off on this one. Ive finally got around to sampling one ofthose bottles of wine our neighbour gave us!
Sam's not very well today, been off school so in between sreaming with a headache and being a monster, hes helped me in the garden. The priority today has been to prune the fruit trees. The plum and cooking apple trees have probably never been pruned, so its taken a lot of work. They are almost bare now, but the light can get in and as long as no disease takes hold next years crop should be smaller in yield but better fruit. In pruning the trees most fruit fell, and despite the collected yield being only about 1/3 of the total (i have been very picky, all but the slightest damage) it still comes to about 10lb of plums and around 30lb of cooking apples.
Its left me with a lot of leaves and branches to compost, more than i can handle, so ive just ordered two more compost bins at Yorkshire Waters discount rate of £6. The current bin got some organic 'accelerant' (ie ive pee'd in it). Cutting all the branches up was hard work and ive got a blistered hand now but i'd rather the nutrients were recycled.
I still cant get rid of the bloody caterpillers. I keep picking them off, but its another infestation, so everything got a spray of Derris this evening. At least Sam is now happy to pick them off for me, not ovveryly squeemish about it, although he doesnt like them moving about. We throw them in the incinerator. I dont think teaching him to crush them is right just yet.
The spring cabbage i sowed last week seems to be sprouting already! fanstastic! That got a blast of derris as well. Julie cut the grass, as there has been an outbreak of mushrooms, at least three types, that i didnt want sam to get hold of.
Boys day tomorrow, me and Sam might go to seaside for the day. In evening i plan to make an apple pie with some of the apples from the tree. We went to Julies grandma's yesterday, and stopped off at the local pet place so i could price up stuff for chicken keeping. I wasnt too struck on their chickens though, they were quite dirty around the back end. I hope to build the chicken house in the next month (as well as get ready for my OU exams) then get the chickens.
If i get time tomorrow, the roses are getting a blast of Dithane against the black spot they've got, and of course i need to finish disposing of all the apple tree branches.
Sam's not very well today, been off school so in between sreaming with a headache and being a monster, hes helped me in the garden. The priority today has been to prune the fruit trees. The plum and cooking apple trees have probably never been pruned, so its taken a lot of work. They are almost bare now, but the light can get in and as long as no disease takes hold next years crop should be smaller in yield but better fruit. In pruning the trees most fruit fell, and despite the collected yield being only about 1/3 of the total (i have been very picky, all but the slightest damage) it still comes to about 10lb of plums and around 30lb of cooking apples.
Its left me with a lot of leaves and branches to compost, more than i can handle, so ive just ordered two more compost bins at Yorkshire Waters discount rate of £6. The current bin got some organic 'accelerant' (ie ive pee'd in it). Cutting all the branches up was hard work and ive got a blistered hand now but i'd rather the nutrients were recycled.
I still cant get rid of the bloody caterpillers. I keep picking them off, but its another infestation, so everything got a spray of Derris this evening. At least Sam is now happy to pick them off for me, not ovveryly squeemish about it, although he doesnt like them moving about. We throw them in the incinerator. I dont think teaching him to crush them is right just yet.
The spring cabbage i sowed last week seems to be sprouting already! fanstastic! That got a blast of derris as well. Julie cut the grass, as there has been an outbreak of mushrooms, at least three types, that i didnt want sam to get hold of.
Boys day tomorrow, me and Sam might go to seaside for the day. In evening i plan to make an apple pie with some of the apples from the tree. We went to Julies grandma's yesterday, and stopped off at the local pet place so i could price up stuff for chicken keeping. I wasnt too struck on their chickens though, they were quite dirty around the back end. I hope to build the chicken house in the next month (as well as get ready for my OU exams) then get the chickens.
If i get time tomorrow, the roses are getting a blast of Dithane against the black spot they've got, and of course i need to finish disposing of all the apple tree branches.
posted by Zak The Rabbit @ 9:10 PM
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