Tomorrow in the garden

Hello everyone, just to confirm we'll be in the garden tomorrow from midday till about 3.

The weather looks ok, so we should be able to move the beds and fruit bushes, ready for

the builders.

Hope to see you there!

James

Plotting 2011

We met at the garden today to make a few decisions for this year. One of the most pressing is the disruption to the garden as and when extensions are built on the back of foundation house. Luckily we met a gentleman there who had plans for the work and some idea of how much space would be needed. The conclusion being that the first row of raised beds and fruit trees would have to be moved. The herb spiral will need relocating too. This information spurred us on to action whilst the weather was good.
We've transplanted the garlic, the raspberries and disassembled the wood surrounds to all the raised beds that are affected.
We managed to get a small harvest of parsnips and celeriac, then adjourned to the pub to decide on what to grow this year. Our wish list is for:
Broad beans
Beetroot
Broccoli
Carrots
Chard
Courgettes
Fennel
Kale
Leeks
Onions
Parsnip
Runner beans
Shallots
Spinach
Squash
Sweetcorn

We want a salad bed with lettuce,rocket etc.

We also want to create extra colour with Marigold,Cornflower etc.

Think we might need a bigger garden!

I've amended the planting planner on the right hand side of the blogsite, click on it if you want to see the initial proposals.

Our aim is to meet on Sunday January 23rd, weather permitting, to finish off the moving of the beds to the rear of the plot to create a permanent home for the fruit trees. We could do with as many hands as possible to ease the load so please pop down if you're free..midday onwards.

Meeting 9th January

We're planning on working in the garden this Sunday about midday. We need to tidy up ,decide best course of action with moving beds before builders arrive and talk about seed order. Shouldn't take too long and we can always withdraw to the pub if weather
turns inclement.
Hope to see you there!
James

Oh Deer?

We have had a visitor to the garden that has taken a fancy to the tops of the leeks ,the tops of the celeriac and polished off what was left of the celery.
Judging by the tracks in the snow we think it is some kind of deer, maybe a muntjac. Anyone brave enough to confirm on the strength of this photo?

The droppings look similar to rabbit, but they're all laid in a line which seems unlikely for rabbits, unless they're doing the conga!
Anyway the only survivors seem to be the few beetroot and parsnips, looks like we're going to have to make the removable fencing panels sooner rather than later.
Here's the chewed out remains of a celeriac, exhibit 1 in the case against our mystery guest

Autumn pictures

A couple of pictures from the garden this autumn.

Garlic groupies!

We planted a bed of garlic yesterday.. with Nick's help, tuition and garlic bulbs!

Here they are before we covered them up..over 50 bulbs went in so we're hoping for a good crop next year.

We also met some new friends, re-planted the blackcurrant bushes, swept up leaves into compost bin, stripped the last of the runner beans and peppers bed and plucked a handful of juicy raspberries!

Souper day!

We had an awareness raising session in Louth Market Place today, I managed to make some moderately interesting soup out of the squash,celery,onions and herbs from the garden.
We distributed that freely to market shoppers( about 24 cups of soup by my reckoning).
Maggie, Noel and Eddie handed out flyers and generally spread the word.


Max Griffin of Griffin Memeorials came down with son Billy and handed over the new slate sign he has made and donated for the garden. We hope the sign will be fixed somewhere near the Crowtree lane entrance to the garden to help direct people to the gardens.
It really is a lovely sign with skilfully etched lettering on green slate..Thanks Max!