Up the garden path

Now that’s what I call a path. Here is the fruit of Alice’s labours today. Nothing beats a house guest who actually wants to give things in a go in matters green.

Naturally the path didn’t start out that way. First there were weeds to remove, stones to pick up, soil to rake, and then grass seed to sow. But with the two of us working together the time flew. And here’s an action shot to prove the labour really went in.

But actually the main work today was even more tedious than this. All the kale and old leathery (and let’s face it bolted) brassicas have now gone from the path of the potager.

They have stalks as thick as one’s wrist, so needed a good bit of heaving to get them up.

Here is the mighty pile of the last of the year’s crop. Good eating here, and in fact others did help to strip the leaves and give us one last mighty meal.

And another most wished for task was to get the compost out of the bins and into the wheelbarrow and onto parts of the garden. Right now I still can’t bend my back with the spade and get any decent volumes of this black gold. So Alice went even beyond the calls of duty by actually climbing into said compost bin and getting the stuff out. Heroic or what?

And stand by for one of the world’s most dull pictures ever seen in a blog. Yep, it’s the ubiquitous slow motion action shot of a wheelbarrow full of muck.

But hey, at least it serves a mighty purpose. It went down lovingly between all the corn and beans at the edge of the potager and will hopefully feed and keep down the weeds. And then the carrots and the marigolds received their dose too.

I’m thrilled, and so too, hopefully are the plants.