HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
12th June 2017
More unseasonal weather at Morwell. The high winds
really take their toll on the trees in full leaf both big
and small.
The polytunnel is keeping us in vegetables and herbs
and now the onions are ready too. In the greenhouse
the tomatoes planted in growbags are looking a bit
distressed but it doesn’t look like the feared blight.
The amelanchier suffered in
the gales too, in the
morning it was discovered
at a jaunty and not too
healthy 45 degree angle
having almost been blown
flat.
A new support based on
those we’ve seen at RHS
gardens has been put in to
try and support this lovely
tree which never developed
many roots in its old
location in the crowded bed
beside the polytunnel
The cypress tree that is really in the way is being slowly
reduced, and there is a lot of really good pine leaf mulch
trapped around the roots and the many upright boughs.
This is being collected and used! The remains of the other
diseased cypress has finally been cut up to be dried for
woodburner logs, and the large residual stump is sitting on
the bonfire pit. It will take a while to burn it!
Gale force winds overnight on 6th June brought down a lot of dead wood from the old beech tree. On a
positive note it all burned very well on the bonfire.