HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
30th May 2018
A month of good weather, visits to shows and
gardens, and a lot of new work in the garden
meaning little time to keep the diary up to date.
The growing area is finally getting much-needed
fence protection. Rabbits had dug up one of the
potatoes so a temporary fence has been put around
all five growing beds allowing the beans and peas to
be planted outside the polytunnel.
Everything seems to have been slow to get growing
this year after the cold spring, even the grass.
After many years of growing runner beans up a cane
“wigwam”, finding it blows over, and you miss beans when
picking them amongst the crowd at the top, I’ve created this
south-facing frame pinned into the ground. Will it be better?
The redundant box hedge from the gunpowder store bed has
a new home as an edging for the bed below the polytunnel. It
is suffering box rust but thankfully no sign of blight.
Our composters have
arrived and were built
on the same day!
All the wood planks are
easily removable and as
the bay fills up we add
planks until it is full,
then move on to the
next one. We’ve started
from the right as the
left one will have to
have the side removed
to replace the
collapsing fence. Now
that will be a big job…
A local company built and installed the gates for us. They are called “Morwell” gates and appealed to us,
especially as they look as if they will keep the rabbits out! Since this picture on the 17th May I’ve put fence
posts in from the top gate to the double gates in readiness for mesh rabbit netting. Underneath the gates
themselves I plan to put pavers to deter any ideas of digging under them.
The double gates are needed to allow the mower to drive through and cut the grass - we don’t plan any
more vegetable plots but there will be a large fruit cage running up the area with grass either side.
We visited the RHS Malvern Spring Show in mid-May
and amongst our purchases was this colourful hedging
plant with the un-catchy name of leptospermum. It is
evergreen, and has developed many more flowers
since this picture on the 17th May.
We think it will make a good low hedge to fit
between the fruit trees and the planned garden
pagoda so we are looking for another dozen exactly
the same colour.