Anyone want their veg plot dug over and weeded? I'm not expensive and I only swear every ten minutes.
I suppose I should cover it up with a tarpaulin or plastic sheet until planting time? I have plans of collecting bags of seaweed and planting my perennials around the edges to prevent soil falling on to the paths and make it into our very own English/Irish Potager with pretty flowers and attract the 🐝 to pollinate the plants and vegetables.
You have certainly been busy in between the rainy downpours. Does it make your soil very heavy or is it fairly easy to dig over?
ReplyDeleteIt's been unbelievably dry all week JayCee. The clouds look leaden and if there is a cap of them on top of Hungry Hill it's sure to mean rain. The soil was compact with me using it for my perennials nursery and it formed a pan and the most pernicious weeds were couch living under the tarpaulins. It's just began to rain.
ReplyDeleteWish I could hire you!! We've got a back yard which badly needs turning over and you could happily take/fly home barrowloads of weeds for the menagerie .
ReplyDeleteI'm not expensive Linda. A few days in Poros and some of the local grog would suffice. Seriously have you thought about getting a couple of pigs or the loan of a couple of them? They are great at rooting and fertilizing the ground. You would be fattening them at the same time.
ReplyDeleteF is a jealous as as jealous thing - stuck behind her computer screen all day all week when like you she should be extracting pernicious weeds from the veg patch.
ReplyDeleteHi Tigger. If it's dry you get out on your veg plot. At least I can see something for my efforts this week.
DeletePS - do your felines supervise by the way?
ReplyDeleteThey wander round and use the timbe I think r door on the polytunnel for a scratching post. Robins perch on my shovel and fork handles . I think they look for worms and have opinions about my efforts.
ReplyDeleteI used to use the entrance to F's little plastic greenhouse as a scratching 'post'. It got me in no end of trouble but I couldn't (or wouldn't) stop myself from doing it.
DeleteYou sound like our Domino Tigger. Once I caught him using the polytunnel door for a scratching post and I chastised him and he climbed on top of the polytunnel roof and started bouncing up and down like it was his own personal trampoline.
DeleteYes. I do want our veg plot digging over. My private jet will be popping over at the weekend to pick you up. Bring a toothbrush.
ReplyDeleteCount me in. Will it be Yorkshire Airlines? See Hale and Pace YouTube video for further details. Maybe JayCee and P will let us use their yacht? Meet you at Bantry Marina YP.
ReplyDeleteSorry but the yacht is out on manoeuvres at the moment. Patrolling the Irish Sea checking for leprechauns.
DeleteDrat! I suppose it will have to be Ryanair yet again? "No I don't want to buy a lottery ticket." If those leprechauns have been drinking Paddy whiskey. Don't go near them!
ReplyDeleteI like your potager idea, that would be pretty. Your four pronged pike is what we call a garden fork. I have no idea what an Azada is, you'll need to show us a picture.
ReplyDeleteI will show you a picture of my Azada River. Apparently Azada is Spanish for hoe. The long handled four prong pike was traditionally used for mucking out and loading carts. I like using them for digging. We also have long handled Celtic shovels in Ireland. In England the T shaped handled shovels and forks are used and there is much more emphasis on working your back. The potager idea is to attract beneficial insects like bees and to make the veg plot look attractive.
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