Well the rain just keeps on coming! Here is a snap I took of our bog garden today.
The marsh loving plants are quite happy to spend a day or too with their roots sloshing about in this muddy soup! However it is making it rather difficult to get on with any of our other gardening tasks.
Luckily, we had a break in the weather earlier in the week which gave us the chance to get a few jobs done. Farhan and Rehan helped me to add some coleus to our black Olympic ring and to clean the black grass with milk. We also managed to plant some ferns in the bog garden which had been donated by Mrs. Parfitt. The Year 4 gardeners weeded and watered the vegetable beds, mulched the fruit trees and added an astilbe, a hemerocallis 'corky' and a primula bullesiana to the bog garden.
In the next few weeks (weather permitting) we are hoping to have new wooden edging fitted to the butterfly garden borders and some new composting stations installed. We will also be rotovating and enriching all the planting areas to prepare the soil for the next phase of planting.
The marsh loving plants are quite happy to spend a day or too with their roots sloshing about in this muddy soup! However it is making it rather difficult to get on with any of our other gardening tasks.
Luckily, we had a break in the weather earlier in the week which gave us the chance to get a few jobs done. Farhan and Rehan helped me to add some coleus to our black Olympic ring and to clean the black grass with milk. We also managed to plant some ferns in the bog garden which had been donated by Mrs. Parfitt. The Year 4 gardeners weeded and watered the vegetable beds, mulched the fruit trees and added an astilbe, a hemerocallis 'corky' and a primula bullesiana to the bog garden.In the next few weeks (weather permitting) we are hoping to have new wooden edging fitted to the butterfly garden borders and some new composting stations installed. We will also be rotovating and enriching all the planting areas to prepare the soil for the next phase of planting.
