So last week I bought another cherry tree. For those of you keeping count, that’s five but I only actually have four on the plot. I’m still waiting on three more that I’ve ordered (cherry, apricot, peach).

It arrived on Friday, so the first job for Saturday was to get it in a pot! I also topped up compost and mulch on the older trees. I have moved all but one of them to the back of the plot and nearer their planned new home. This also gives the blueberries some room and me a chance to get amongst them for maintenance. Which s planned in the next few weeks!

In order to do that I needed to empty a pot of compost so a tree could go into it. That galvanised me to clear the squash bed of my failure (I got four tiny squash from about 20 plants!) and the weeds (so much aramanth). That done, I emptied the pot and found some potatoes! None of which I managed to capture because it started to rain!

Then I planted the cherry tree in the pot, topped up the others, mulched them with strulch and watered.

I do need to get in with weeding those last bits of path but I banjaxed my back last week (I’m still suffering but I didn’t want to do too much weeding of the path and some of the beds were in a state. So I weeded the lingonberry, leek and kale beds, I need to keep on top of the weeding to avoid the nightmare that was the garlic bed this year!

It was raining again so I watered the poly and had a tidy of the pots and tables and put one away.

Harvest was tomatoes, chard, lettuce and dahlias

I took that and a some kale in pots home for Sue and called it good

It wasn’t the best session I’ve had on the plot but it’s getting better every time I turn up. Jess Sowards says that the best medicine for the garden is the gardener. She’s not wrong and the consistency of being there even if it’s only for three and half hours is better than my not going at all.

Next week, I’d like to at least do the rest of the main path and one of the side paths. I’d like to get in amongst the blueberries and weed and top them up with compost and strulch. If there is time I want to get the spring greens and garlic in a bed and maybe the onions and shallots and broad beans. Finally, the tomatoes and courgettes need to come out and at least one of the raspberry beds needs chopping down

If I can get that done and the likelihood is that I won’t get it all done. Then I’m ready for the big tidy in the really messy areas as discussed here

I just need to keep going!