The lettuce, calabrese, cauliflower and cabbage seedlings are growing away merrily in their trays, and should be ready for pricking out next week. The tomatoes were of concern, but have made a small start and show two shoots - potential! Meanwhile, the potatoes are chitting in the garden shed.
Anthony and I planted a couple of birch trees, a rose 'Brother Cadfael'(!) and five yews around the front of the building and garth. You might say the yews are planting for the future. Yews are classified by age and girth: ancient yews are over 800 years old and 7m in girth; veteran yews are over 500 (and maybe upto 1,200) and 4.9m. There are 6 ancient and veteran yews in Worcester Diocese, the nearest a collapsed veteran in the churchyard at Powick.
Between September 2010 and September 2011, I lived alongside an Anglican Benedictine community of monks and nuns. In November 2010, we moved from Broad Marston Manor near Evesham to Mucknell Abbey, a new eco-monastery near Worcester. This blog was about things that I observed and things that interested me. I have now stopped writing it. Thank you to all who were also interested.
Clare, It's still great to read your blogs, thanks.
ReplyDeleteIs there any way you can encorporate a map on a permanent basis so that people can see where places are e.g. the garth and the cut which you mention on this and your previous blog? Mx