Happy Easter to you all ! What a lovely weekend we,ve had , with blue sky and warm sunshine .
I was working in the garden with a short sleeved cotton blouse and my straw hat , it was beautiful .
I just had to sort out this vegetable bed . The only thing in there to be saved was the Daubenton's Perennial Kale , the rest of it was weeds ,weeds and more weeds .
I decided to cut down the Tetrapanax papyrifer rex . What was I thinking to have planted it there ?
I had to use a saw to cut it down and I am amazed at how hard it's trunk was , absolutely solid and very heavy wood ! Goodness me ! Sawing was very hard work and the blade kept getting stuck , twenty minutes later it crashed to the ground , I couldn't lift it and had to find a big , strong man to carry it to the compost heap , yes, really heavy !
I'll leave it for now , but will need to try and get the rest of it and it's root out or I think it might go crazy , putting up shoots and become an even bigger monster than before .
I did find three nice shoots with roots , which I have potted up and I will find a much better place for them to grow . It is a lovely plant /tree , but just not in the vegetable garden !
After that I pulled weeds for ages until my arms ached . Three wheel barrows full !
Then raked over a nice thick mulch of well rotted manure .
