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Bank Holiday Weekend
21.08.2023 - 11:50 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
We had plans for the Bank Holiday weekend. The first thing on the agenda was finishing the mini polytunnel. That went out the window when we realised we didn’t have enough netting, and we would have to order some. It’s on its way, together with some ironmongery to make a door.
The Strip, as it was when we moved in
So with that off the table, we thought we’d make some progress in the extra strip of garden. It’s behind the back garden (which is technically to the side of the house), fenced off and accessible only from the road. The first year we got here, we left it to its own devices. It had been planted with low-maintenance shrubs, which we removed at the beginning of 2016. We installed 4 cheap, recycled raised beds, and planted potatoes and oca.
Last year I did the same, but by then I had a new plan – I was going to use the strip to grow some of the shrubby perennials I have been keeping in pots. They needed a permanent home, and that was where it was going to be. We had some timber left over from making the raised beds in the back garden, and were going to use it to make a raised bed for the rhubarb.
A few months ago we also bought a cheap trellis, to fasten onto the fence so I could grow hops (which I grew from seed) for hop shoots.
We’ve never got on top of the weeds in the strip, so we worked to clear a section next to the fence, and then Ryan installed the trellis and I planted out the hops. Ryan put together the raised bed, and we started to dig out one of the compost heaps to fill it.
And uncovered two quite agitated bumble bees, which (I assume) were trying to nest in the compost. In the end, hot and cranky and chased by bees we retreated to the house.
We went out later to plant the rhubarb, and as soon as we started
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