I finally made it to the garden this weekend, this being the first weekend of the year that the road wasn’t a giant snowdrift or a waterfall. Some of the fauna grew well despite the conditions.
Unfortunately it was mostly fauna I don’t want. One of the more vivid green bits is supposed to be a vegetable bed.
I made a start on tidying up and moving the bean poles to a different bed and put the beginnings of a kill mulch on one of the most overgrown bed, so it at least looks like we’re doing something now. I tried taking a picture but it was at the twilight hour when trolls are abroad, so it didn’t come out very well.
I’ve still got a lot to do before I can plant anything, and I’ve still got a ten metre high tree lying on its side in the bottom of the garden waiting to be removed.
Speaking of planting, do any gardeners have ideas for red bean varieties that like waterlogged clay soil?
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February 3, 2013 at 11:12 pm
tony
Tinned ones!
February 4, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Chris
Are you sure the bright green isn’t the green manure that you sowed last year. It looks a bit uniform for weeds.
February 5, 2013 at 9:30 pm
Andy in Germany
Tony: Obviously. Wy didn’t I think of that?
Chris: That is the green manure, (which seems happy this year as well. Must turn it into the soil before it breeds). The one I meant was second from the right which was more vivid in reality than on camera.
February 10, 2013 at 5:47 pm
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