kaberett | [growth] A tiny progress picspam

Item the first: the squash, in the process of hatching. Two and a half (of six seeds, in an egg carton repurposed for the growing of plants) baby butternut squash, with their seedling leaves only.

A six-egg carton, repurposed for germinating squash seeds. Two have germinated.

Status as of the 27th of June: the first (and smallest) raised bed, weeded and left to bake the weed roots in the heatwave.

A very overgrown allotment, with a weeded raised bed in the foreground.

The same bed, on the 1st of July, manured and mulched. The rest of the plot behind it is still neck-deep in weeds.

A small raised bed that has been manured and mulched.

On Wednesday this week, I steeled myself to collect up and triage all the various bits of wood that were lying around. Almost all of them are sufficiently partially-rotted that I can just hit them with a mallet and use them as woodchip for the compost pile, as and when the bin arrives. Two of them had truly impressive agglomerations of snails.

A different pile of snails on a different plank of wood.

I also discovered the edges of a much larger ground-level bed, thanks in no small part to U attacking the entire section of the plot with an azada, and on Thursday I started weeding it.

A start on weeding a ground-level bed, which had been Lurking Amidst The Weeds. In the background is the small raised bed, containing two tiny squash plants.

Today, I made a lot more progress with weeding (this time wearing long sleeves and jeans, and checking my gloves regularly for ants...), manured the far end that'd had a chance to bake, and planted out squash #3...

Substantial progress on weeding ground-level bed, including manuring a section and planting another squash in it.

... and finished up by mulching around squash #3 in the hopes of keeping some of the moisture in:

The same ground-level bed, with the section around the new squash mulched.

Plans for next steps: finish weeding the current bed. Plant squash #4 in it. Germinate some brassica and pak choi and plant those in at the very end (have conveniently just finished a pack of eggs, so repurposing that carton too...). And then move on to the other small raised bed, nick some chamomile and some dubious borage from the abandoned plot at the end and stick them in there, and then ???????

Not pictured: the brambles I've hacked down and left to dry, and the extraordinary quantity of bindweed I've removed from the probably-a-jostaberry.

[growth] A tiny progress picspam

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