Weeks 40 and 41

I didn't get a chance to post about week 40 till now. I have been feeling really drained lately and just haven't had the time or energy. Week 40 was a good weekend though, we managed to get the bulbs planted. 

I have had a stash of bulbs waiting to plant for a while but its has been too dry to dig the flower bed to plant them. Worrying that they would suffer if left un-planted for too long we came up with a back up plan. 

We planted the ones that would flower first in the top of bed 1. The iris's and daffodils should flower in February and march and after that, before the beans need to go into the bed, we can dig them up and move them to their permanent place in the flower bed. 

The rest of the bulbs plus some elephant garlic went into pots put on top of the flower bed. Once the pots have flowered they too can be replanted into the bed. 

By the time we are planting the flower bed we will have had plenty of time to dig it over nicely and incorporate lots of compost and manure. This will be quite good as the bulbs will be a permanent and they should have a good start. 

This week, week 41, was a little too rainy for us to get anything outdoors done. So we made some seed tape to test out how easy it was and if the glue (flour and water paste) would be too moist and cause the seeds to rot or germinate, more to follow on how it turned out.   

Week 39

I didn't write a plan for week 39 because I didn't think there was much to do. It turned out that we got a lot more done then I expected. 

We cut down the bush at the end of the flower bed that has been mentioned before. It was getting really big and once it was cleared there was so much more space. We still need to dig out the root but we are getting there.

We looked to dig the flower bed but although the top was softer, below was not. We considered taking the grass off the top but a look at a weather app told us that it was going to be dry so there was no benefit. We did however dig over the end of bed one so that we can plant some of the bulbs there, the full plan will follow in another post. 

We did some work on the "secret fruit" I can't say what it is because its something we are growing as a surprise. I also can't saw what we did because we don't want Mother to read this and it not be surprised when we bring it home.

We had a think about what we need to do, both long and short term. But most excitingly we had a good harvest. Its a joy to take food home, we haven't planted much this year so to have a trug full in year zero is wonderful. He have 3 small beetroots, some apples, some tomatoes, some mini peppers, more carrots, mangetout and purple beans, and a big handful of herbs for Mother.