The weather has be wonderful today. It has been 10c and sunny for the third day in a row!! After the long long winter this year it really has been nice to be out. I spent the whole afternoon digging the rhubarb bed on my allotment. I at last have managed to get rid of the mass of couch grass straggling the rhubarb plants. With the recent dry weather the ground has dried and I was even able to rake it afterwards!
I also recovered the ground that I am leaving uncultivated as the wind has blown the flimsey plastic off. This time I have used the heavier woven plastic that I had but remembered the scissors to cut it this time! I have also covered it with clods of earth to hold it down. Hopefully it will stay in place this time.
I decided where to put my shed today and I also covered that area in the remaining plastic to kill the weeds whilst I get the shed ordered.
I found the new shoots on the raspberry plants just coming through. I'm looking forward to tasting them in the months to come.
When I got home I sowed my flowering plants in line with the moon. I have sowed some sweetpeas called Gwendoline, Autumn Broccoli, a white cosmos called Purity, tagetes called Golden gem and Monarda Bergamo - a new on for me it has dark pink flowers on long stems and is attractive to butterflies and bees.
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