More Garden Guff

Yesterday was emphatically not a day of rest – primarily because we spent most of it in the garden. Again.

The first surprise came when I went up to let the chickens out in the morning – and found three peacocks (OK, technically one peacock and two peahens) in the chicken run. They quickly fluttered up on to the fence, and then next door, but returned a couple of times more before finally being scared off by Hound.  There’s a colony of peacocks over by the church (probably half a mile from us) so it wasn’t a complete “Where the hell did they come from” moment, but it’s still the first time we’ve had them in our garden since we moved here.

From there we got a bundle of work done, including finishing filling the remaining three raised beds on the veg plot (using the best part of another ton of earth) and finally planting stuff in the bloody things. So we now have raised beds containing :

• Broad Beans
• Peas
• Strawberries
• Pumpkins
• Courgettes

In addition, scattered round the rest of the veg patch we’ve got :

• Raspberries (18 canes’ worth)
• Gooseberries (4 bushes)
• Blackberry (1 plant)
• Rhubarb (4 plants)
• Garlic (2 rows)
• Onions (3 rows – although they’re not doing much)
• Beetroot (1 row of white, 1 of red)
• Potatoes (3 buckets, two of which have so far been successful)
• Various herbs and odds-n-sods

Bear in mind, this is actually a reduced list from last year, due to us not actually managing much garden-wise last year. *ahem*

Anyway, with that little lot sorted, Herself also planted a bundle of stuff round the new pond (Hound was being a pain in the arse by this time, and got dragged indoors by Yours Truly) including foxgloves, lambs ears (it’s a plant, we’re not that cruel!), salvias, and other stuff I now can’t remember the name of.

Along the way there was also other bits and bobs, but it was a pretty busy day all told.

And that’s why I didn’t update yesterday…