Today there was a good turn out on a nice afternoon.
We split into two groups.
Mrs Whyte took one group to plant out lots of wee begonia
plants at the main entrance between the daffodils. The daffodils are now over
and we tied down the leaves and put the begonias in between. The daffodils will
flower again next year but we want the leaves to keep growing and build up the
bulbs so that we get lots of flowers in the spring. Once the leaves die down we
can cut them back and we will see the begonias better. The bed will look lovely
after a few weeks. Mrs Whyte said she would finish the planting for us in the
next few days.
Mrs Morrison took the other group to the raised beds. We had
to hammer in some posts, lift the fleece and put some netting over the beds to
keep the animals (cats, foxes etc.) off. But before we put the netting over the
seed beds we had to weed the beds. We were not so keen on that!
One other thing we had to do was “thin out” the radish. We
had been a bit heavy handed with the seeds so there were too many seedlings
growing. If we didn’t thin the out there would not be space between the plants
to get a decent sized radish. The thinnings were wee tiny radishes and we took
some home to eat.
We are all looking forward to our trip next week.
