Garden Diary
March 2013
At River Barn we are mostly on heavy clay which becomes waterlogged very quickly. Consequently we have planted lots of willow and Cornus which sucks up quite a bit of moisture. But to keep them decorative as well as useful we pollard them every couple of years in early spring. They then produce lots of young whippy growth which colours up beautifully in the following winter. They then look like torches on a sunny winters day. Last weekend was the pollarding day and then followed the shredding. A whole day’s work. Once shredded the willow filled one of our oak bins. All this matter is pure carbon and to get good useable compost it needs to be layered with equal parts of...
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Exciting news! I have been shortlisted for the Amateur gardener Award. The winners will be presented with their awards mid March at a Gala dinner held in Marlborough Town Hall.
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I had an email from Wiltshire Life magazine asking us/me to enter for an amateur gardening award; a new award for 2013
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