HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
20th July 2018
The weather is still warm and dry although we
have had some rainfall, but it makes little
difference to the hard baked soil. Early July we
ventured into putting nematodes into the
vegetable beds to try and combat slug problems.
The dry weather isn’t ideal for nematodes or slugs
but we’ve kept watering the beds. Now digging up
early Charlotte potatoes and the onions are ready
along with runner beans and broad beans. Just had
our first peas, turnips good and at last a
cucumber!
Our house and garden from above on 7th July looking north west. The Watering Hole to the north is the
only other property visible close by, now turned over to holiday lets and camping. It was a pub at one
time, wouldn’t that be good now? The trees on the arsenic tip of the old East Wheal Russell mine are to
the left and the Morwelldown Plantation which disappears off to the right also continues north and then
west. This illustrates very well how we are sheltered from the prevailing westerly wind.
We’ve transplanted a
hydrangea that was in
a tub - well half an
old barrel - near the
proposed pond area.
The ground is very
hard and dry, but just
to illustrate how
many stones we have
the bucket is nearly
full and the hole
we’ve dug not very
big!
If only all the wildflowers would grow in the
wildflower patch. This magnificent teasel turned up
also in the pond area and is a magnet for the bees.
It stands around 2 metres tall and we like it so
much it can stay until its days are done.