My poor old beloved veg plot is looking rather unkempt, wind swept, bedraggled, weedy and unloved at the moment.
I have course offered it my humble apologies for being absent with out leave.
I have decided to literally grasp the nettles and manicure the plot back into some kind of horticultural order.
Being a organic gardener I know weeds and nettles especially are a sign of fertility and a lot of weeds are wild flowers in the wrong place.
Not forgetting all the recent sunshine and recent rain and being situated between fields next to the sea on a some times very windy peninsula. Plus I do give my plot lashings and dollops of fym and poultry manure pellets:
A bucket of poultry manure is a lot easier to sprinkle a few hand fulls rather than pike big piles of fym. I have both and my Autumn jobs will be topping up the beds. I might bag some fym up and see if I can sell or barter or some?🤔
So yesterday for a couple of hours. Joan Jett on Spotify on my mobilise phone accompanied me weeding and harvesting some vegetables. Oh what pleasant surprises I had:
Here's Joan Jett singing Crimson and Clover;
I would love to see Joan play live.
"When you coming to play West Cork Joan?"
My garden is suffering in this heat, I water it often, weeds are not to bad in such a small plot it's easy to keep on top of them, can you bring a few bags of your fym over when you come, I would gladly pay you for them.
ReplyDeleteNo heat wave here in the west Marlene. It's been soft rain all day. 5he weeds are loving it. Local riding stables often give fym away for free, farm centres and garden centres sell it in bags. I would gladly give you lots of it if you sailed over and collected some.
ReplyDeleteAll your hard work is paying dividends in comestibles!
ReplyDeleteYes JayCee. I had to Google comestibles. Have you ate a dictionary? Is it raining on the IOM today?
ReplyDeleteI try to chuck in the odd esoteric word now and then ... oops... did it again 😉.
DeleteNo rain today ... yet ... just warm and cloudy so far.
You have got an extensive vocabulary JayCee. No signs of Scorchio here yet.
ReplyDeleteChicken poop is one of the best manures. My father was a gardener and we had chickens. His garden was full of very healthy vegetables
ReplyDeleteMy fym is a combination of pigs and ponies poo Linda. I bought the poultry manure pellets because ours is still too fresh to put on the raised beds. The chicken pellets are weed free, last a season and very easy to apply. My fym barrowing and piking begins in September.
ReplyDeleteJOAN JETT: "I will be playing West Cork when you are away in England next month. I plan to park my touring Winnebago at your smallholding and I am going to hook up with your wife. We will drink tequilas together and talk about the men we have known - including you Dave! Shame you are going to miss all the fun mate!"
ReplyDeleteShe's amazingYP. A bit masculine/ androgynous but gorgeous and feminine. I bet she smokes tabs and drinks pints. A proper lass!!
ReplyDeleteSo much fresh food for you to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI listen to music while gardening. Or an audiobook.
Reading these days is hard with my eyes, even with my glasses.
Plus that’s all I can do. Read. This way I stay active, and productive without missing out on novels I want to read
I love Spotify Angela. Especially when I am walking or gardening on my own. The weeds have returned with a vengeance. They are Triffids like at the moment. I need my reading glasses a lot these days.
DeleteThanks for the music Dave - today's project really needed it.
ReplyDeleteHi TM. I love JJ. Such a beautiful rocker.
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