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Gardening Daily Diary - 8.9.20

 

8 September 2020

Great day for gardening today. Spring is definitely here with the warmer days and blossom starting to bud and bloom on the fruit trees. Morning started off with a frost and sun was shining brightly by 7:45am with occasional cloud in the afternoon.

Raked all the sticks and straw off the paths and threw the last of the pile of weeds into the compost. Dug a small garden for Courgettes and a new garden, possibly for herbs. Its currently growing 2 Rhubarb plants but my daughter can have them as I already have about 15 of them in my big garden.


Before: Looking particularly messy if I do say so myself.


After: With a lot of elbow grease and some help from my chicken friends, this area was tidied up over the course of 2 days. Red Chicken is breaking up the small garden for my Courgettes/ Peppers.

I have taken to watering the garden at about 4pm when the day is nearing an end so it soaks into the ground overnight as opposed to watering in the morning and have it evaporate throughout the day. I'll make adjustments to watering as needed. For now I'm trying to get the grounds saturated enough so that when summer does hit at least the water is not going to either run straight off the garden or just sit on the top layer and not penetrate down into the roots.

Planted the last of the Silverbeet in the garden with the brassica's and tightened the netting up to keep the chickens off them. The ground is majorly lacking in any nutrients and has very little organic matter in the soil. I'll add compost or manure of some description to start building the soil back up again when I can locate something that's affordable.


Started filling pots with soil for Blackcurrent cuttings. Must do sooner rather than later and get them going.

Started writing this blog!!!!

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