Weeding

Following a good breakfast which included some very nice Black Pudding, I loaded up the Landy for a trip to the lottie. This week the weather has been quite cold and we have had a couple of very foggy and damp days. First job at the lottie was to reinforce the bottom of the back panel of the big compost bin. The bins have been in place for six years and are starting to wear. I screwed on a thick plank of wood.

Next I went round Bed4 pulling up the Sweet Corn stems. I also pulled up all the Sunflowers. They had dried back some time ago. I had thought I would collect the seeds to feed to the birds. However the birds have been smart enough to help themselves. I put the Sunflower and Sweet Corn stems in the bottom of the new compo bins. I then skimmed off the top couple of foot of the old compo bin into the new bin. In due course I will dig out the compost from the old bins and put it on the plot in some deserving spot.

The weather was holding up, still cold, damp and a very low flat sky. I went round Bed4 and the path down the side of the bed spot weeding. The weed of the year is Chickweed with Nettle as a close second. It was any easy enough job to spot weed the few Dock and Nettles. I had cleared the Chickweed as I pulled up the Sweet Corn stem at he bottom end of the plot. As time was pressing and the weather was slowly deteriorating I left the rest of the bed under the chickweed. Later in the evening I was watching a progarmme on the TV about foraging and guess what they were harvesting. Yes, Chickweed. I could feed an army on my crop. I think I will have to try Chickweed as a food.

I had a chat with J, one of the other plot holders. I think I have only seen him once this year. Whilst we were chatting the little birds were fliting about. A huge Kestral flew across and alighted in one of the tall trees in the hedge. Then, along another hedgerow flew a Jay. You don't see many of them but since the tree have dropped their leaves the birds are more visible. That was the lottie expedition done. When I got home I unloaded the Landy as it has to go back the Steve. H was still out so a had a look at the bike.