The Good Life

Thankfully, it’s not just me who’s ended up taking on too much work this year – Herself did much the same thing.

Because of the time delays in the house purchase, a lot of the plants that had been started off at the old place either didn’t make it into the ground in time to be useful this year, or everything went in at once (particularly with regard to the stuff in the veg patch) so we’ve ended up letting a lot of it go over. Not intentionally, but just with so much other stuff going on, the veg patch ended up coming last on the list.

As a result, we spent some of last weekend just pulling up a lot of the stuff that’d gone over, or even died, and sticking it on the compost heaps. It’s a bit sad to see stuff just going on the heap, but in this case it was the only valid option. And I suppose it’ll have the side effect of making for decent compost for the new year.

And at least we know for sure that the ground there is fertile and decent, which means that next year we’ll be able to get a lot of decent stuff done. We’ll spend a bit more time planning it though, and hopefully by then we’ll have a fair amount more disposable time where we can do the garden stuff, rather than trying to mix it in with all the house work, moving, painting, tiling, work co-ordination and the like.