This week Miss Swallow was away but things continued to move on a-pace in the garden. We cut back lots of dock leaves before they came to seed so that they would not spread everywhere. There was lots of watering to do - the potatoes are growing well now - though on the day we started to plant out more leeks it actually began to rain!
Meanwhile Danielle also planted out several more courgette plants and brought up some tomato seedlings that have been started off in school for us to plant on.
Some of the wild flowers are coming up, but the border is very patchy. Possibly the soil is too rich for them as they tend to prefer poor soil. We are planning to re-sow some in the rough bare ground where we have cut the dock from. Take a look at the video below - in future, we hope that there'll be lots more wildlife in our garden! We shall then use the raised bed for more vegetables and maybe other flowers too.
DIGGers meet on Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes - we aim to grow our own fruit and veg and have fun eating it! We also raise money for charity each year through a growing competition and give our primary schools a competition to try and win the "Lewis MacKenzie Trophy" (see bottom of page for a list of winners and fundraisers).
Um ... I don't want to sound like I'm carping, but how did you manage to post half a vid?
ReplyDeleteMmmm, sorry about that! I took the code from the bbc wildlife website and just pasted in into the blog as instructed but obviously it could do with resizing to fit into the column better! I'll try and look into it if I get some time!
ReplyDeleteThat's better! Wasn't difficult - just edited the sizes in the html code. I hadn't previously noticed it was cut in half as I'd watched it before embedding it!
ReplyDeleteWorry not ... these things happen, as they say in the Dales.
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