Friday, May 18, 2007

Ground level

Today I have worked in the garden, standing on hands and knees under black currant-bushes weeding. And what a weed, I filled a whole skottkarra (wheelbarrow) with kirskal!!!

All along the birds have been singing and hurrying to and fro their nests. It's flowering everywhere, so beautiful this time of the year.

A walk around the garden is always the first thing I do when I get here, must have a quick look! Some things have disappeared since last time, some are found again. Some are thick and green, some are small and tiny. I could probably walk around photographing bulbs and insects and other interesting stuff all day long. But instead, I seed, dig and weed. Two of the currant bushes have got rat-fence for their root systems. Dig a hole, line it with net, put bush down again with lost of new dirt. Hopefully I will get my black currant-berries!

With hope of good harvest!

/E.H.

5 comments:

LS said...

time to weed, weed, weed here too! Most of gardening is kind of pest control... we have two groundhogs we need to catch. And groundhogs are big, like small beavers. Good luck with the black currants!

EH said...

And good hunting to you, our rats are 'mullsorkar', they don't destroy as much as the groundhogs but still....

And why always the same plants that I want! They can have the weed!

E.H.

LS said...

Latest news from the groundhog front....


I out up the trap last night, put a peanutbutter sandwich in it (they like that), and this morning I went out to inspect. Oh well, something had been going on there during the night, and the trap had closed, but the groundhog got out the back way by braking open a padlock (the kind you have on luggage). There was broken grass, dirt and so all around it, seems to have been a ot of struggle. Question is, how long is a groundhog's memory? When can I bait the trap again and it won't remember its terrible experience and go in again? We will move the trap too. The trap we use is a live trap that doesn't hurt any animals, just like a giant cage. So, no success so far...

LS said...

Spray cayenne pepper on the plants you don't want the sorkar to eat!

EH said...

Why not try again tonight, maybe it's still hungry for peanut butter! :-)

Bad that it escaped though.

EH