Garden 3013 no 1
It feels so good to write that…. GARDEN 2013 NO
1
This will be brief, obviously there is not a lot to do
or to see in a garden in January but the there are two things I find worth
celebrating. The first is that I was well enough to brave the January cold for
about an hour and go outside to the garden. The second is that once out there,
I saw tiny signs of new growth. My fruit bushes are in bud. It’s early, and
spring is still a long way off but it’s reassuring to see the bushes in bud
ready for the spring. I did very little, I picked up some rubbish that had
blown into the garden, clipped a few blackberry runners off before they
embedded themselves into the ground, raked over the soil to level it off after
the recent rain and wind, threw some spring bulbs into the ground and then
threw handfuls of soil on top. (I’m not sure they will actually do any thing
but I had forgotten about them and they spent the winter in a bucket in the
shed). I’ve nothing to lose, the bulbs weren’t going to do any thing in the
shed and even if they do nothing this year, they will be nicely buried into the
ground by next year.
On the plus side, I’ve caught a lot of the water
that’s been falling from the sky. My water butt is full to overflowing and the
various buckets and bins around the garden are also rapidly filling. I’m
thinking of using the wormery I bought a couple of years ago as a second water
butt. I didn’t have much luck using it as a wormery because all the worms
died. I think it’s too cold here to keep
worms outside and the bin has been cleaned and stored in the shed, it's ideal
because it has a tap on the bottom. I think I’m going to adapt it and use
it as a second water butt, seems a shame to throw all this water away when it
could be used to water the garden s next summer.
But for now, it was so nice to spend an hour outside.
