Hellebore buds at the corner of the pond - February 2009
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The beds are too wet to do any digging which has the benefit that I was focused on cutting back the old stems of perennials left for ‘winter interest’ but now way past their best. Have left the sedum heads for now as they are still upright and we do have frost forecast.
Chickens had one of their last outings into the garden pre the start of spring growth. They will be banned from then on. I hasten to add that they do have a very large run under the hedge along the back of the garden (the theory was that they would keep all weeds from moving from the field into the garden – works well apart from the nettles which they do not like). As well as general scratching around they did a good job at attacking the 'goose grass' shoots. Am sure that I will still be, carefully to get the roots as well, pulling up the actual plants out later in the season.
Assuming the weather is similar tomorrow I must cut back the Autumn Raspberry, Japanese wineberry stems and hellebores (last years leaves) prior to getting out the shredder for all stems not put straight on the compost.
Must also work out how to store the chunks produced by the shredder for adding to grass clippings later in the year. (Composting will be covered at some point later!)
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