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supermouseIt was beautifully warm and sunny again today. This spring has been remarkably clement. I mowed the lawn, which is quite the undertaking, especially as the lawnmower has to have its electrics taken apart and put back together again every time.
I've had another harvest - the same foods again, but more of them. Rhubarb, chives, nettles and rocket salad, in case anyone is wondering. Fifteen rocket plants yield enough leaves for a one-person bowl of salad a week. One rhubarb plant will yield five stems in a week (there are a good number of stems ready to replace what I've just cut very soon). The nettles are perennial so counting the number of plants is problematic, and the chives are in clumps.
The massively-yielding apple tree over the east (west-facing) wall looks very dead. I'd expect some sign of life by now. That means *all* the trees along that wall are very, very dead, and died last year some time, although the other plants are alive and well. Anyone got any idea what could have happened?
Bumble bees are busy looking for nest sites and the honey bees are out. There are butterflies around too. The food I am putting out for the birds is apparently especially attractive to reed buntings, as I had at least four and I think a half-dozen in my garden today. The robin was active where I had been planting out parsley. I'd like to have put out more pea plants but was unable to stand the crouching needed to do so, and was also too clumsy to really handle seedlings today. Perhaps tomorrow. Anyway, the lawn was a great big job and I am glad it's over.
On another note, I had an idea that it would be nice to *just* cook hickory smoked sausages, slice them up and put them in a muffin tin with corn muffin mix on top. It's going to be a regular treat, I think, served with baked beans.
I've had another harvest - the same foods again, but more of them. Rhubarb, chives, nettles and rocket salad, in case anyone is wondering. Fifteen rocket plants yield enough leaves for a one-person bowl of salad a week. One rhubarb plant will yield five stems in a week (there are a good number of stems ready to replace what I've just cut very soon). The nettles are perennial so counting the number of plants is problematic, and the chives are in clumps.
The massively-yielding apple tree over the east (west-facing) wall looks very dead. I'd expect some sign of life by now. That means *all* the trees along that wall are very, very dead, and died last year some time, although the other plants are alive and well. Anyone got any idea what could have happened?
Bumble bees are busy looking for nest sites and the honey bees are out. There are butterflies around too. The food I am putting out for the birds is apparently especially attractive to reed buntings, as I had at least four and I think a half-dozen in my garden today. The robin was active where I had been planting out parsley. I'd like to have put out more pea plants but was unable to stand the crouching needed to do so, and was also too clumsy to really handle seedlings today. Perhaps tomorrow. Anyway, the lawn was a great big job and I am glad it's over.
On another note, I had an idea that it would be nice to *just* cook hickory smoked sausages, slice them up and put them in a muffin tin with corn muffin mix on top. It's going to be a regular treat, I think, served with baked beans.
