We have got gite bookings rolling in so I have been spending all week in the absolutely freezing hangar making a cupboard to hide the gas bottle for the gite cooker out of crappy scrap I had lying around and a splendid bronze plane. Absolutely no gardening this week due to howling winds, torrential rain and freezing mud coating everything. Still a bit to do out there though:
Finish digging (only a metre left but need a dry half hour for it!)
Mulch the beds with horse poo and compost depending on what's going where next year
Dig out a new bigger holding bed
Dig up all the ash and oak trees in the driveway and plant out in the field (have to wait for the Boys to vacate it now)
Cut and trim hedges and boundaries
Cut poles for trellis, beanpoles and pea-sticks
Prune trees and fruit bushes
Take cuttings of trees and bushes
Etc...
Thankfully, I have 5 crates of beer to get me through it - half the usual light fizzy ("mesle yellow") and a new one: a strong, dark, 7%(maybe) battle pop. Tastes great and I no longer miss the Gardener's (nearly). Need a name for it: maybe "Bad Santa"...
I'll post some piccies later.
Just about to bottle up our first brew. Out of a brewer's tin rather than hand-crafted using wicker and corks made from organic tofu, but we'll still have some alcohol at the end of it. And plenty of room for improvement.
ReplyDelete"Whoop" and "holler", as they say in America. Another convert to the Cause!
ReplyDeleteRemember to keep a stash up the allotment: I did and it gave me the incentive to get up there when it was freezing cold and wet!
That's a damn good idea.
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