- and we have one or two willing souls at present - can only work in the garden if it's not pouring down. For us this means that the dry weather has to coincide with a time when they're not studying literacy or numeracy or any of the other important things we cover. And it has to be Mon-Wednesday because those are the days the students and I are around. It's a bit limiting in terms of the love and care we can lavish on our potential crops.
The plan now is to sort out as much as we can next week - get rid of the waterlogged veggies that never quite made it, dump the terracotta pot that mysteriously got smashed, weed and tidy, then plant the over-wintering onions and garlic (hoping they've survived the period they've spent in the shed), and then we'll retire the garde
n for the winter.Roll on next spring! A lesson learned, I think, is that we need more flowers and fewer veggies next year. The raised bed was a great idea, but needs more attention than we can give it and less rain than it suffered. It's been, as they say, a learning curve. Meanwhile though, the hanging baskets are still in bloom in October, so they must've brought a small amount of joy to a few rail passengers, and the three clematis are rambling all over the fence and should be stunning by next spring.
The photos I've dotted around here represent The Way We Were. It's good to look at them now and then to realise that actually we've come quite a way in quite a short time.
That's all for now - we'll be back in spring.
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