Friday, 23 January 2015

Pruned Blackcurrant bushes and tidied up

This afternoon I went down the Allotment for 3 hours. I was planning on doing some pruning of the fruit bushes, digging some of the plot and sorting the raised beds out but due to the hard frost from last night the ground was still quite frozen so I was unable to do any digging or sorting of the raised beds. I did however do pruning of the Blackcurrant's using sacateurs and loppers and this helped to thin them out slightly. I was going to do the Redcurrant's and Gooseberries today but ran out of time after needing to do the tidying up before dusk. I tidied up by cutting all the wood up and putting it into the compost bin along with the raspberry canes and loganberry prunings. I gathered the rest of the rubbish up and bagged it up in order to take to the tip. Last night we experienced a very hard frost with temperatures about -5 this morning. The weather today was dry and sunny and overnight tonight we are expecting rain once again before it turning slightly milder again over the weekend.















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