HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
7th December 2017
Daylight hours are much shorter now but we’ve still
managed to get out in the garden almost every day.
Most of the effort has gone into moving the
crowded hydrangeas from the area that will
become more vegetable growing beds. Leaf
collecting has become less frequent, mainly those
dropped by the magnolias now. Yesterday we ate
the last tomato from the polytunnel, seems
amazingly late.
Three hydrangeas have
been moved, they will
eventually have a wall
behind them. That’s the
plan anyway. The very
attractive ragged
daffodils have been dug
out of the bed behind
also, and three new beds
and dividing paths
marked out ready for
digging. The three
remaining hydrangeas
will be moved to a space
south of the fruit trees,
then the heavy work can
begin on the three
vegetable beds. At least
there isn’t a lot of grass
to scrape off first.
Hazel trees beside the
road and west Devon
bank. Shame really but
they need to go, probably
in two ‘bites’ from our
tree man Matt. A lot of
the wood is dead and
decayed, all are
smothered in ivy and the
trees cut out all the light
when in full leaf, not to
mention spreading across
the telephone line along
the road. The laurel is
growing well along here
and will do an able job
keeping the deer out.
The leaf pen will have to
be moved or risk being
crushed! I have actually
removed the nearest tree
post-photo yesterday, it
only had two main trunks
splitting very close to the
ground so was relatively
easy to chain-saw. Hazel
logs burn well when dry!
This bed was home to
the peas and beans in
the summer. A couple of
weeks ago Lesley
planted some garlic
which seemed to shoot
almost immediately -
and now we have a
counted 150 garlic
plants coming up! The
only failure so far is an
elephant garlic we
bought at Hampton
Court Flower Show last
summer. Maybe it’s just
a bit slow to get going…