Week Out

I went back to Ireland for a few days to see relatives for a week. As you can see, the blog has been pretty thin on the ground recently. Don't worry, I will sort out the picture of the garden since the JCB has been in another post.

While I was away, my mother-in-law and her partner kept things ticking over nicely as well as doing other things over and above what I'd been expecting. The lawns were mowed, the beds were hoed, the greenhouse watered etc, but they also did loads more weeding that I'd expected and sorted out the raised bed. Before I left, I had planted some fruit trees (2 raspberry and 1 gooseberry). I dug an 18" trench and filled it with rotted grass... however as this was still stinking and had not completely rotted, my Mother-In-Law removed some of it and added some bonemeal and blood so that the trees would have a chance...... see I'm a total novice at some things!

Planted a few conifers the day before I left, in the spaces left by the removal of old ones. A tall one beside the greenhouse and the groundspreader near the shed. My wife helped with these discovering first hand that Junipers, whether dead or alive, can give you a nasty rash.

I recon I'm back up to speed now on the garden since my time away so things will start to be done again.