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.