Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 8th December: Now you can see just how handsome our resident robin is.
We are rapidly hurtling towards the end of the year. The rainfall for November was a healthy but surprisingly low 55.3 mm. We have had so many rainy days of late, however the rain is mostly drizzle and not torrential. Without a doubt the main topic for the weather is the constant battering from storms. They seem to be coming one after another and so we must truly be in the stormy season. This weekend brought storm Darragh which stopped us coming out on Saturday morning. Yet again we shall have to wait for it to pass before checking on the damage on top of the storm we had last week.
Fortunately Wednesday was fine and dry, giving us an opportunity at last to get the broad beans planted. The fact that we have any beans to plant at all is a minor miracle because of the ravenous rodents we seem to have in the greenhouse, so it was something of a relief to get them in the ground at last. Now all they have to do is to be able ride through the weather and the winter and hopefully survive. To help them along we got out the sad and sorry looking fleece to give them a little protection from the winds and any future frosts. We had hoped to be able to cover them with some new and hole less fleece, however the Christmas post has been slow and it had still not turned up for the great plant out. We shall now have to hope and pray that the fleece is not on its way to Folkestone already as Darragh continues to howl and rage, although at the very least it will probably have gained a few more holes.
As usual the resident robin was curious to know what we were up to this week and posed just long enough for one of our speedy gardeners to catch its likeness with her phone camera – we had been trying to do that for some weeks – now you can see just how handsome he is.
Happy with our work, we packed away just as it was about to start drizzling again, so most of our other tasks remain unfinished and are to be carried forward into next week.
What’s next?
- Remove goji berry
- Order some wood chips
- Clear any suckers coming up in the middle of plots
- Keep putting down compost on any uncovered areas
This weeks update from the Sandgate Community Garden Diary.