It’s starting to get really warm now and it feels amazing and a little stressful, lots to do! The lilac is blooming and the cuckoo has started to gala. That’s signs of early summer here!
The grass has really started to grow which is great since I’m using it to cover the open soil in the garden. I hope to cover most of the rows to save on water and keep weeds out. But I won’t use grass on all of them, we don’t have enough and also it’s not necessary. In some rows I will plant pumpkin that will cover the soil and for example with potatoes I don’t want to add anymore manure. Anyhow I started to cover my garlic and onion. I was so excited for my garlic this year. Last winter I planted a lot of it and hoped that we would be self sufficient from this fall on. Unfortunately a lot of it has rotten because of the very wet winter we had. Better luck next year I guess…
Gardening isn’t always beautiful. We continued with our pond and hopefully the ducks will arrive this week. Our super nice neighbour came to help us with the digging. It went great except for a little mishap with our raspberry. A long branch snapped, luckily we were able to take some cuttings from it so hopefully we will get a lot more raspberries in the future. It’s my second time taking cuttings from raspberry and what I do is I cut the green sprout just under a pair of leafs clean the stem from almost all the leafs and put it in moist soil. Then all you need to do is keep the soil moist and wait. I hope to build this pond without using a rubber mat and just use some sort of clay instead. I’m looking into how that works and will make a post about it if we decide to go that way.
Grounded gardens 