After months of feeling below par I have appeared suddenly to regained my former vigour. H and I went up to Manchester on Saturday to do a job for my Dad. Poor Miss L had to work in the evening so she could not come with us. However she did have her friend over for the day. I finished the job very quickly so I suggested we all went up to the market at Bury. The market was very busy. It was good to be at market that was so busy. The market had all kinds of traders. The Fish and Meat Hall was heaving with people and the stalls were packed with good looking produce. I bagged a nice piece of Salmon and a piece of smoked Haddock. We also sought out the Black Pudding stall. I had a take out Black Pudding just to keep me going. We discovered an Italian Deli which was glorious. H loved the market. The cheese counter had the most delicious Lancashire cheese, both crumbly and creamy. We just had to have some, well quite a lot.
It chucked it down most of the night so I thought lottie work would be out of the question. H wanted a Cabbage so I had to go there later in the day. However after a breakfast of Black pudding I went to the lottie. The paths were soaking but my plot was not too bad. I have not had much time spare for the lottie over the winter so some plants are in need of clearing out. I tackled a row of Celery which were clearly past their best. When I shook the soil off off the roots and raked out the soil it was moist but friable. I threw a barrow load of manure onto the row I just cleared, turned the manure in and then planted the row with Garlic. Things were going well so I dug over the first ten foot of the pea bed. I dropped four barrow loads of manure on the prepared bed and spread it about. The Broad Beans can be planted in a few weeks.
I had a rummage under the wormery and found the bird netting. My neighbours compost bin lid had cut a big hole in the side netting during the high recent winds. It was just a question of cutting a patch for the hole from the spare roll and "sewing" it on. That done I selected a couple the cabbages for home. I went round the plot and picked up all the dead cabbage leaves.
The jobs were taking no time at all so I set about weeding the Asparagus bed. All weeds came away quite easily except for the Nettles which seem to have invaded the whole bed. The bed was dressed at the end of summer with compost made at the lottie during the previous year. With the weed cleared the soil was black and loose. The Asparagus bed is raised so it never gets really wets and I hope that now the black soil is exposed the sun will heat it up. This year we get to have few spears so roll on Easter.
If that was not enough for the day. I went to Burton to see if I could get plastic or acrylic to fix the greenhouse roof. I found what I wanted but it was too big to go in H's car. We dropped in at our favorite garden centre and got a couple of Rhubarb plants, they were even in the sale. When we got home I made tea, fish pie. To round the day off did my blog.
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