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Taming the jungle!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul made a good start on the patio bed on Friday. \u00a0He’s built a tee-pee to hold the perennial sweet pea, dug up the bamboo shoots that were escaping from their beds and weeded out a lot of rubbish. \u00a0Here’s a general view of the bit that’s done. \u00a0I reckon he’ll need at least another visit to get the whole bed in shape, and it may take two!<\/p>\n

We had a little fence around the bed to keep the weeds from tumbling all over the lawn. \u00a0Now we can take that down. \u00a0I don’t really like cutesy fences, first because they look naff, second because they trip you up and third because you can’t get close to the edge with the mower or the strimmer.<\/p>\n

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Rakings from the meadow along with windfall apples and our lovely blue lace-cap hydrangea which has been spectacular this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, John has been working on our mini-meadow. \u00a0That’s the patch you can see around the cairn of stones. \u00a0During the summer it was an impenetrable tangle of knapweed, daisies and other smaller plants, but now it has been cut down and raked up. \u00a0We leave the rakings on the meadow for a few days. \u00a0This is to allow them to dry and drop their seeds. Sometimes the badgers take \u00a0the dried vegetation for their bedding, so John leaves it in a pile for them. \u00a0This time they ignored it, but carried on digging up the lawn looking for worms in the damp earth.<\/p>\n

You can see a lot of apples on the ground. \u00a0If they’re bruised or rotting we leave them for the animals. \u00a0The blackbirds seem to like it when they’re brown and mushy – I suppose they get a bit drunk! \u00a0The crows only want to eat the apples on the trees. \u00a0They keep stabbing them with their beaks, but ultimately the fruit fall off and then the crows move on to the next apple – wasteful devils! \u00a0The squirrels run up and down collecting apples. \u00a0I don’t know if they try to bury them – I hope not. \u00a0However, I do find half-chewed fruit\u00a0all over the garden. \u00a0I just wish they’d finish one before they start on another!<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of fruit about this year. \u00a0We’ve had amazing, huge juicy blackberries, the rose hips, haws and eldeberries are plentiful and there are plenty of berries on cotoneasters and viburnums. \u00a0Some say it means we’re in for a bad winter, but I think we’ve just had a good summer for fruit!<\/p>\n

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Paul made a good start on the patio bed on Friday. \u00a0He’s built a tee-pee to hold the perennial sweet pea, dug up the bamboo shoots that were escaping from their beds and weeded out a lot of rubbish. \u00a0Here’s a general view of the bit that’s done. \u00a0I reckon he’ll need at least another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jarnfield.uk\/joan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}