GARDENING BLOG

Week fifty December 9th - December 16th

Weekend 12/13th December 2003

This was a dry weekend after a wet week.

There is plenty to do in the allotment at this time of year -- pruning fruit trees, moving plants from one site to another, digging and clearing up.

The first of my Japanese onions that I planted out in September needed weeding.

I gave all of my onions sets, Autumn sown broad beans, and the the peas sown last week a dressing of wood ash (or rather the ash from the burning of weeds twigs and prunings collected earlier in the year)

I made some headway removing the old top growth and clearing up and weeding the Asparagus bed. I will give that bed a dressing of ash and cover it with muck on my next visit.

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