End of February Garden Update
21.08.2023 - 12:05
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/ Emma Doughty
When we first moved into this house we had the sofa by the patio doors. At some point during the intervening two years we moved it to the other end of the living room, facing away from the garden, so that Ryan could have a corner for his ‘office’. It means we miss on on seeing a lot of the antics of the wild birds we entice into the garden with the feeders, which is a shame. In an ideal world we’d have a conservatory, but unfortunately it would take up too much of the garden. We’re pondering whether to move things around again, but in the meantime we need to make more of an effort to look out the window!
There are some lovely new signs of life in the garden. I’ve moved the peach tree next to the front door, as it is budding up and should burst into a froth of blossom any time now. We’ll be able to see it as we come and go, instead of it hiding in the shed. Hopefully it will have enough shelter to avoid peach leaf curl; we’ll have to wait and see.
It’s very nearly time to start harvesting the purple sprouting broccoli, which is very exciting. The plants suffered a bit in Storm Doris (despite being staked) and I’ve had to give them new, even heftier, stakes in an attempt to keep them upright for a few more weeks.
I requested a pack of free tree seeds from the Woodland Trust, and when they arrived last week some of them had started to germinate, so I had to nip out to the shed and sow them into pots of compost. This was after Storm Doris had passed, so I felt safe leaving their pots nestled into one of the raised beds in the garden, where they will get rained on. They’re better off there than stuck in the shed where the gardener may forget to keep an eye on them
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