Thirty Something Hobbies

Apologies for rather sporadic posting lately, mainly due to an awful lot of gardening (much of it in the rain!) and spending most evenings in the bath recovering. This is what we've achieved this week:

We put in a water butt to the greenhouse which with the aid of a clever watering system will water the greenhouse much more thoroughly than in past years and I'm intending when it's full to put 'worm juice' (from the wormery, mainly consisting I think of worm wee and sweat but very very good feed!) into the butt so everything is getting lots of feed!

We recycled some more wooden boxes to create a raised bed for salad crops where there had previously been the 'dumping ground' so we made several trips to the tip with tub trugs full of rocks dug out of the garden. I'm rather pleased and it will hold a lot more than the greenhouse which gets over run with tomatoes and be easier to harvest at dinner time! However as at the moment it is just boxes of compost Tiggy thought we'd just opened the latest in public conveniences for cats!! so that will have to be discouraged!

We finally got the potatoes planted which turned into an epic when in my last trench I came across something solid where the potato needed to go - after about an hour of Paul and I digging and levering we finally got out not just a rock but a boulder about a foot square! I then had to reconstruct my carefully dug trench and carry on planting!

And finally here's Tiggy who seemed convinced that there was something for her in the gift bag!

So after the last few days hard graft I was very glad to get to a nice relaxing knitting group this evening!