Where was I?

snow 2012Right, I’m back up for air. Out of the office and into the playground that is a seven acre garden on a 17 acre farm.

But what’s this? Surely I couldn’t be thwarted this early in the week?   Indeed. I woke up this morning to find all my projects on the Garden List are to be postponed.   There are only a few inches of snow, but enough to hide all my paths I wanted to sort in the top vegetable garden today. veggie garden

I did actually manage a few small projects over the last few days. The little sallies out when you are dying for some exercise and need a break from sitting down.

poor carWe do mistreat our poor car. Here it is playing the role of wheelbarrow very prettily.   Stacked to the gunnels with wood we threw down from the forest.   The nights are getting colder. We’ve some minus 13s coming later this week.

I decided to make the top vegetable garden my mini project in my long list of winter chores.   It badly needs some atttention.   First up I had to emtpy the three compost bins up there that had plenty of lovely crumbly compost to go on the beds.

raspberry mulchingSo I had a happy few hours flinging it about.   Onto the raspberries. Pause here for an action shot of brown dirt on brown twigs. So fetching.

And then all the way down the asparagus bed. That took ages. courtyard 2012

And then I had plenty left to trudge down with endless buckets of compost to the hedge.

Is ever a group of plants getting so much attention? They’d better reward me with lush growth this year.   I must have emptied a bucket of rich compost on each of the 27 shrubs on the top.   And I even had enough for the rest.   And it was tremendous exercise. more mulch

I lobbed a bit more onto the newly planted phlomis shrubs in the shade garden, and was contemplating adding more around other parts of the garden, but the sunset defeated me. Too dark to see.   But still, job well done and exercise and one’s mind off the computer. Lovely.