A4a - Hellebores
A4a - woodland garden area
in need of weeding, mulching and further planting.
B5b - weeding around day day-lilies and saffron crocus
The saffron crocus has not flowered in the 3 years since the corms were planted - have the summers not been hot enough? *
B1 - weeding and mulching around fruit trees and bushes
Raspberry, fig, cherry, hazel, blackcurrant, redcurrant - and comfrey
B top micro-orchard
pruning apple tree (21)
Weeding the herb and strawberry baths in Plot B - bottom
B3b - harvesting/foraging 3 cornered garlic
Polytunnel - pruning grapevine.
P5 - green manures pulled up and used as a mulch
- some soil removed in preparation for soil improvement.
The soil removed from the raised beds in the polytunnel is being used for mulching some of the outdoor beds.
*In the library of the allotment garden of Nowhere in particular, Saffron Crocus:
C. sativus - (Reader's Digest - Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants and Flowers. Hay, Roy. 1989 - ISBN 0-276-00086-2) - p189.
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