tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623297510187244.post9009373874446527935..comments2024-02-23T03:26:11.779+00:00Comments on Growing Things and Making Things: Garden update for April MayRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619866897155085499noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623297510187244.post-79575858522341571112014-05-24T11:25:12.312+01:002014-05-24T11:25:12.312+01:00Compared with my neighbours' gardens, my soil ...Compared with my neighbours' gardens, my soil is relatively stone-free. I can stick a fork in the ground without jarring my back! Even so, I've picked enough stones out this spring to resurface several sections of path.<br /><br />I do have some horse muck left. I was going to give it to the broccoli, but maybe this year the asparagus should win. I'm not sure I'll have any broccoli anyway, as the seedlings got badly munched in the greenhouse.<br /><br />I try to tolerate the cat digging holes in my garden, as I'd rather she went there than in the neighbours' gardens (where she uses the lawn rather than the beds, perhaps on account of all the stones). I do leave areas dug but not planted, but of course she never uses those!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16619866897155085499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623297510187244.post-61735002926106163122014-05-24T07:37:38.264+01:002014-05-24T07:37:38.264+01:00Cripes, you have stonier soil than I do! If you ha...Cripes, you have stonier soil than I do! If you have any horse muck left, bung it on your asparagus. I put a huge load on mine as I think I saw Monty Don doing that on GW; they are supposed to be hungry plants. <br /><br />Nice to see your garden and how it is progressing. I don't have much to show from the veg patch yet and I've had to cover some seedlings with chicken wire, thanks to now having 3 cats which were digging holes and using it as a loo. So much for a fence to keep them out - ha! They squeeze under the gate. And even here with my dry soil I have lost lots of lettuce and spinach seedlings to little slugs, and those that survived have been half eaten by sparrows. So now I have plastic cloches over everything! To be honest the flowering side is easier..... :-)Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.com