25-26 March 2021
More time in the garden.
This is one of the new Mulberry trees, planted to the west of the house, hopefully to provide high summer shade to the west wall and bedroom windows. It has started leafing out, which is good to see.
I have moved on to weeding the moringa beds, which are quite overgrown, mostly with straw which has seeded from the winter mulch. It comes out easily when it is young, but some of it has been left too long and has established itself firmly. This is a problem with the straw available here - it still has lots of seeds in. We give some to the chickens to peck through, but the five of them take about a month per bale, which is too slow for the whole garden, so pecked straw goes to priority locations.
On to the second bed, which has this raised box, where we saved the topsoil from the pond location. The box can be removed now, but because there is some of the lovely dark Italian kale still growing in it, I can’t rake out the soil just yet. It’ll have to have a lump in the bed for now.
Half weeded, with lump in the foreground.
Lovage planted out in the wiggly bed.
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