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The years keep ticking on, Clive...we have to make every minute of them.

Two Swallows just appeared overhead...just waiting for the Cuckoo now...

Not seen a swallow here yet but certainly keeping an eye out.

..and just for ref, I have been out again and run a patio knife along the gap in the concrete where all that rubbish is growing in my todays photo...

C.

I didn't want to mention that, Clive ...but did make me feel better that others have a few weeds too...

A couple of months ago I pointed to half of one of my raised beds and asked my grandson to turn it over why I cleaned the chicken house ,when I came to look he had turned the wrong half over he had done my asparagus bed over ever since I’ve been watching it closely ,since the rains stopped six weeks ago the soil has become bone dry especially the raised beds ,today I noticed around five spears sticking up so all is not lost I think tomorrow will see that bed getting a watering

I shouldn't be saying this, but things are getting rather dry ....... No rain forecast for the next two weeks either. Some farmers are getting worried because the grass is not growing as it should.

Monika, I know. three months of nearly incessant rain, plus a few devastating storms then five weeks of nothing at all.
As a gardener with a plot, I can cope but if I was trying to cover hundreds (or even just tens) of acres and as a business, I wouldn't have a chance.

Been working at the big house this morning and gosh the ground is dry...had a real job getting the wigwams of hazel sticks in the ground, even after digging...

Swallows, chiffchaff, blackcap and house martin have all appeared here, but no cuckoo yet and, surprisingly, no willow warblers.

Here's the Early Onward now with wire and canes in place and the row of Radeo coming through. Also, the restraining posts in place ready to run a string along/around the Bunyards Exhibition broad beans...

C.

Lovely pictures, Clive, and not a weed in sight.

I limed the brassica bed today and watered it in. The brassica seedlings should be ready to go into ground in a week or ten days, covered by a very tall netting tunnel to keep off any marauding birds or insects. I don't want a repeat of last year when our lovely kale, flower sprouts and kohlrabi fell prey to all the little beasties.

oldherbaceous wrote:Lovely pictures, Clive, and not a weed in sight.

...not until the rain arrives....

C.

Beautifully neat Clive. I'll doff my cap, virtually.

Thank you, Stephen,

Here's a photo, of where the broad beans are now, taken when I was trying to get it all back from the wilderness 29 Dec 2019.

C.