Friday, 26 October 2012

Autumnal Scenes and Wintry Weather!

 Pupils returned on Wednesday of last week.  We met this week and have lots of jobs to do!  As you can see, the garden is looking very autumnal.
 Sunflowers still welcome guests as they enter the garden.
 Lots of leaves to rake up!
 Also, lots of plants to cut back and compost now.  It was very cold this week - and windy on Thursday which felt even colder.  In fact, it snowed too on Friday!!
Connorhan wastes no time gathering the leaves for our leaf mold pile.
  Two new members joined us this week - first years called Kieran and Callum.  They got cracking with the competition potatoes, weighing them out and recording the results.
We have 12 to go in order to find a winner but as you can see, number 6 is the most so far producing 750g.
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  1. Anonymous28 October 2012 at 20:10

    Awfully comfortable-looking chairs, there, in the shed! Colourful, too. Very nice! I hope you enjoy them.

    Those sunflower heads look very ripe ... be sure to get a couple locked up in a safe place, away from squirrels and birds, or you'll have no seeds for next year. They are highly nutritious, and are relished by birds and squirrels, and, for good measure, people, so they are objects desired by many creatures other than gardeners.

    Though I doubt not that Conorhan' labours are useful, still, I thought I'd tell of my old method for handling leaves: my place used to have many trees, which produced (naturally) many leaves ... after a couple of years of raking, I decided that it was better to go along with Nature rather that tire myself fighting her. So, I'd pick a day much like the one I see in these pictures ... the leaves a touch damp, and not too much wind, and I'd mow them. And mow them. And mow them. I'd sometimes spend a couple of hours, just going back and forth, chopping the leaves into wee bits about ¼" across, until I was ankle-deep in leaf-crumbs. Then I'd leave (no pun intended) them there, and the Winter's snow would do its work. When the Spring came and the snow melted, I'd wonder where the leaves had gone. Thus began the most efficient method I've ever found for returning the organic matter to the earth, whence it came. And my lawn loved it.

    Your potato count ... is that per plant? I can think of no other means by which such totals could be produced. They're an interesting-looking variety; I must say that I'm not familiar with them. You do seem to have a good amount, though.

    You've had snow by now, I see ... an artist friend in Fargo, North Dakota, writes me that they have 3" on the ground today ... Winter comes!

    Cheers, all ...
    der Wandersmann

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