Sigh .......
Been thinking about it all night . Time to get on with it !
I have sown my Butternut seeds . They are on my bedroom windowsill .Just waiting for them to germinate .
After all the months of rain , the ground is nice and soft and fairly easy to prize out the weeds and clumps of grass right now .
I did try to cover it over with cardboard to keep the weeds down , but the bindweed and nettle roots just go crazy running their long spaghetti roots under it all .
So my back is aching just a bit from bending down and scrabbling about in the earth to grab and chase them along as far as I can to get them out . Trying not to break or leave any broken roots behind that will carry on growing .
When the bonfire heap has dried out , we will burn this lot . Oh no not the cardboard . I will put that down again until I come to plant out my Butternuts .
I am growing Butternut Hunter this year . Also found several packets of different Squash varieties , way past their date ,but thought I'd have nothing to lose . If they grow, then I'll squeeze them in hither and thither ....but not in this bed . This is just for the Butternuts .....oh ...and that clump of perennial Egyptian Walking Onions .
I got that done all before 10.30am . Feeling very pleased with myself !
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(if a just little bit aching )
Always good to get a big job done, rest your back.
ReplyDeleteThankyou 💐 Just going to sow some courgette seeds today ...then get on with my embroidery 😊🩷x
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