That'll teach me for feeling overconfident in January, won't it!! Just as I was getting on top of all the jobs needing doing now we're frozen solid and have been for nearly ten days. It has all been looking a bit pretty though. Digging and rotovating have had to stop but I have been able to get on with some other tasks.
At the end of January I journeyed down to Westonzoyland (what a fab name) to Somerset Willow Growers www.willowgrowers.co.uk to buy some willow to make a screen in the Walled Garden. It went a bit wonky as I went round the corner but overall I was quite pleasesd at the end. we'll see if it's still standing in a year's time...hmmmm.
We got all the apple trees pruned and had a couple of great bonfires, dug out the remains of the previous tenant's polytunnels and got down to preparing the soil for planting. the aim is to have all the ground prep completed by the end of February so I can spend most of March and April up at the farm sowing and growing this year's flowers.
We've got a busy Spring lined up . The flower selling season kicks off on the 1st March with Anenomes, Tulpis, Ranunculus and Narcissi. All our bulbs are coming along nicely but I don't think we will have nearly enough so we've also sourced some lovely growers down in Cornwall who we will be buying from during March. The Walled Garden will be open every Sunday from 10am to 4pm from 1st March so do pop in for a visit and say "Hi".
