First proper lovely sunny day of spring with a hint of summer in the garden. This meant all hands on deck to weed the planting plots and finally get things in the ground! We dug out any remaining weeds, raked over the soil and put in two different varieties of seed potato, parsnips, rocket, lettuce and will put more in next week.
It came to our attention that someone has come in and dug up all our hostas! It was the darker disturbed patches of mulch, not to mention lack of green, which gave it away. The plants have been in the garden for around three years, why now people, why now?!
It’s lovely to see the garden coming to life again, many of the muscari and hyacinth have bloomed, long after the daffodils of course, and the tulips are starting to make an appearance as well. The birds were fed today by a group of very young gardeners, a group of nursery children who had visited during their Easter break. The sat on the benches and the log stumps as well as running around and chasing each other round the labyrinth. It’s reassuring to see the garden being used in a positive way.
Rather than have bright white plastic plant markers in the ground, the gang had a try at whittling some sticks using knives to create more natural plant markers that hopefully won’t be as obvious. We found some suitable sticks and whittled the ends to reveal the paler inside of the stick and then wrote what we put in the ground on it and marked the spot. This could be a way of putting up discrete little signs all over the garden and gives volunteers a nice break from doing weeding or digging.
The morning was going so well that even the storm kettle played nice and lit like a textbook! Not literally, it just went very smoothly with no restarting efforts required…
