Garden Diary: April 5th 2020
We had such a productive day in the garden today, the sunshine brought a lot of families to Riley Park but our A-frame signs kept the crowds out of the garden while we worked. We can’t wait to get back to gathering around the plants.
We were greeted by Rita who was already hands deep in the soil sowing a lot of seeds in her accessible bed and adding some delicious compost. She also helped with the never-ending weeding around her section. Patrick and Roland joined us and did a splendid job of weeding the path edges then finished moving half made compost to the next bin before chopping their way through some of the freshf compost that is already appearing.
After a second week on the berry patch, Rebecca finished the weeding around this bed which was covered in buttercup.
She then moved onto weeding beside the accessible beds, pulling up the purple deadnettles and moved the cardboard sheets to cover the grass along the paths. The cardboard helps to block the sunlight and kills the grass instead of having to pull it up (if you’ve ever tried to pull up grass, you’ll understand how difficult it can be).
Angela was busy with the veg beds and finished planting the leek seedlings, sowed some new leek seeds, and some turnips and carrots, we can’t wait for these to start coming up. She covered these with cardboard to try and retain moisture as the water has not yet been turned on and we are therefore unable to irrigate. Fortunately we have had recent rain and the ground is nicely moist, but with the forecast of sun for the next 7 days, we desperately need the City to turn on the supply!