RAIN NEEDED!

The Dahlia Border

The Vegetable Plot.

As for the rest of the garden... it's dry!  VERY dry.  VERY dry everywhere!  Like everyone else, we're desperate for rain. Am managing to keep the vegetables watered and thanks to Chris's black gold, they look really healthy. Pea germination was pretty appalling and we'll be lucky to enjoy a single meal.

Saturday was spent digging round the chickens bamboos and removing all the runners.  A hard and dusty job but Chris keeps them under control.  We then picked all the Sweet Williams prior to removal and to make space for the Dahlias.  Picking flowers proved not to be Chris's favourite occupation!! There were complaints that it should be forestry not floristry!

The soil is very poor in this bed so we enriched it with what we had to hand - bonemeal, chicken pellets and Growmore.  We then laid down the seep hose to keep their roots gently watered.

Buckets of cut Sweet Williams