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Apr 2020
6:55pm, 4 Apr 2020
19,565 posts
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Columba
I certainly couldn't have done it if I'd been working, Flatlander. Being retired, I had the time. And yes, I removed the eggs when I could see them, as well.
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Apr 2020
8:07pm, 4 Apr 2020
15,526 posts
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Rosehip
That's my sort of garden Flatlander - veg production with lots of flowering plants to make it pretty as well 
I have finished digging out the fishpond. It's only 250L, but should be big enough to house the poor goldfish whose current raised wood framed pond is about to collapse.
I ache.
I ache everywhere!
Also built some more raised beds from scrap timber found when I cleared out the garage - they'll certainly need hiding behind marigolds and poppies!
Goodness knows when I'll have the energy to actually fill them!
Have to admit to a schoolgirl error though, wrote on seed tray labels with the wrong marker pen and it's faded. How am I ever going to know which are cucumbers and which are courgettes?
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Apr 2020
8:24pm, 4 Apr 2020
70,541 posts
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Hanneke
I ache too! I went out into the garden this morning thinking: I shall light the bonfire while I weed, hoe and mulch my veg beds... As I looked at the willow cutting from coppicing my large willow a few weeks ago, I suddenly started prepareing them and I seem to have flippantly and accidentally made a growing willow iglu!
I then went on to weed and hoe all veg beds. Soil pretty compacted because of all the rain we had so I had to resort to the hand azada to break up the thick crust. Not exactly no dig, but I don't have enough compost to do that job, only a thin top dressing, as I created two large additional veg beds last autumn. Not sure at the time why I did this, but... I now am happy I have the extra growing space! Mulching with my own compost tomorrow and I shall be making this 500 preparation from cow horn manure. Biodymics here we come!
Now where did I put those Cupani sweet pea seeds I saved last year?
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Apr 2020
8:56pm, 4 Apr 2020
15,530 posts
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Rosehip
I've always wanted a willow igloo! - not got the room for one here, mum might let me build one at hers next spring though
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Apr 2020
9:05pm, 4 Apr 2020
12,329 posts
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Garfield
When I finally get the bathroom redone, I'm going to keep the bathtub to grow things in. That won't be until next year at the rate we're going.
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Apr 2020
9:24pm, 4 Apr 2020
1,650 posts
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Flatlander
Will you sink the bathtub in the garden or have it as a "raised bed"?
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Apr 2020
8:37am, 5 Apr 2020
389 posts
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Non-runner
We finally moved the two bulk bags (manure and compost) off the drive and into a pile to enrich the raised beds, which are pretty depleted and set like concrete last summer, it is amazing anything grew. You live and learn, commercial topsoil doesn’t really cut it for edibles. Looking forward to getting it all in today between breaks for coffee, tea and later something stronger. Just hope I don’t disturb the great tits nesting nearby.
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Apr 2020
9:16am, 5 Apr 2020
11,038 posts
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Markymarkmark
1 wigwam of French beans in. The plants that looked too big on the windowsill look so small in the veg bed!
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Apr 2020
9:24am, 5 Apr 2020
15,534 posts
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Rosehip
I haven't sown french beans yet, I hope they catch up and that you don't get a frost
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Apr 2020
9:28am, 5 Apr 2020
2,934 posts
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jacdaw
Much too early for french beans outside, up north!
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