Revisiting the garden
It seems like a long time since I have been out in the garden, but it is only about a week. The May Bank Holiday weather was horrible – rain, cold and wind. I left my tomato plants out all night and I don’t think I should have done, because there is substantial leaf damage. However, the central shoots look fine, so I think they will survive. They are still in pots. I will plant them out very soon.
I saw a couple of not so nice sights in my garden. Firstly, there was a dead frog in my watering can. I don’t know whether it jumped in and couldn’t get out, poor thing. Then, after I’d gone indoors, I saw a magpie peck a smaller bird to death. I think it was a blackbird, because a couple of blackbirds jumped in and tried to chase the magpie away. It may have been their baby that was being attacked. In the end the magpie just picked up the bird and hopped away with it.
I pulled up no weeds today, but I did mow both the lawns. I also took the netting off the new grass and trimmed it with shears. I will post some photographs soon. At the moment it is not so much garden renovation I am doing as much as trying to keep the garden looking respectable while it tries to achieve the opposite.