HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY

13th June 2016

The polytunnel arrived this week and coincided with an end to the warm dry spell of weather. That welcome couple of weeks allowed me to progress the work on the electricity supply for outside buildings, as far as the end of the garage so now the new cement mixer can be plugged in there. The bricks, paving slabs, sand and cement for the potting shed patio have arrived but it has rained every day since so no progress on that. We’ve had to put protective netting around many more new plants as the rabbits are eating them.

Inside the tunnel, the boards are in place against the tunnel edge for one side and we have started on the slow job of de- stoning the soil, after giving the ground on the left in the picture a going over with the rotavator. The pile of ash in the foreground came from the bonfire pit and will be dug in with other nutrients for the soil. This first bed is urgent as the greenhouse is host to beans, tomatoes, courgettes and cucumbers that are more than ready for planting out. At least we work in the dry now!