The
orphaned tomatoes were uprooted, sad as it is to curtail their lives,
they were not going to fruit and the colder nights had already claimed
the few flowers that had seemed promising.
Tulips
bulbs were re-housed; Willowbank is a wee green place, and we wish for
food to thrive here. The flowers from the council, behind the bike, will
also go elsewhere, and a lined bed in their place can delight the
stomach much more than they the eyes. The soil was cleared to some
degree of glass and detritus (though much still remains), and turned
over. Tis the home of many a worm.
The
garlic bed, as was, has been cleared, the garlic flitting in with the
kale next door fer the noo; sowing the same crop in a place is
detrimental to the nutritional quality of the soil, and we wish to
encourage bio-diversity and more tolerant crops, using our own seeds
etc. for future sowings. This soil was also de-shitted, as Cat manure
does not bonny compost create. The bed is un-sown at present, awaiting a
feed of manure.
The
weary chilli was re-potted (temporarily?) next door to the lock up, and
if someone could offer a warm and caring home to the plant over Winter,
please do.
The
basket bed in the centre has been emptied, cabbages and mint relocated -
cabbages to the lavender barrel temporarily, someone pleases make use
and eat what is grown! Willowbank is not an ornamental endeavour! The
mint has taken shelter beside the wall, and Horse Chestnuts which were
dicovered there placed, in pots, on the former tulip patch (there were
9), and in the earth below the closer elder tree (a further four - if
and when they begin to make good of their growth, they'll be re-planted
elsewhere). Also in the bed which housed the tulips is a fuchsia from
the bed nearest the compost, this bush right at the corner of the
entrance. The bed was cleared, turned over and is now covered - for the
moment with the whole rolls of chicken wire, and weighted with a paving
stone, so as not to be interfered with by cats or planting - this soil
will be fertilised with manure, and maybe sown with green manure crops
over winter for fertility.
Lavender was relocated from the bread bin, now resident beside the parsley.
Some of the scrawny kale plants have been composted, and straggling vessels emptied.
Shite
from around the garden was cleared, glass, crisp packets etc. an
extensive clean up operation soon, for glass especially, would be the
grand thing.
Weeding, naturally, took up every other moment.
The
last two of us were invited in by a neighbour, Ravi, for tea and talk
of the space. She's been before and intends to spend more time at
Willowbank garden. Up with this sort of thing!
Winter sowing was plotted and will be undertaken in the coming weeks.
The bonniest of the cabbages was harvested, and will nourish appreciative folk soon.
Other matters:
A staple gun is required, and asking the council for a litter picker would be a fine idea.
Could we know what type of Broad Beans have been sown?
Gàidhlig ~ Gaelic
Facal an latha ~ word of the day:
Talamh - Earth, soil. Talamh bàn is fertile ground, or literally a feminine ground.
Where we are headed, as a garden, and as mortal creatures....
