Today we started planting for 2012 with 67 garlic cloves going into one of the raised beds. We have bought garlic bulbs from the Garlic Farm on the Isle of White for the last few years and it has always done well are still working our way through the 75 cloves raised last year.
It was also time to prune the fruit trees. This was a bit overdue for the apple trees planted in 2010 and it seemed a bit brutal following the advice in the RHS Encyclopaedia of Gardening. I guess time will tell.
I have also started feeding and mulching the trees with some of the 4t of cow manure that out neighbour Wilf kindly let us have last year. It is still a bit 'fresh', so I put a layer of straw down first and then covered this with the manure at the rate of 1 large barrowfull per tree. The raspberries have started to get the same treatment.
We have also started turning the compost heap and mixing in some of the fresh manure so hopefully it will break down faster. Back breaking and rather smelly work!
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