With a sharp overnight frost, the day has been glorious! Clear blue skies all day and I took my chance to actually work outside the polytunnel! The rockery had been neglected - my gang of girls from Class 7 had started to plant rockery plants, but with various activities elsewhere, they haven't been up and I haven't been there! We still had plants in their pots, so I gathered a group of boys and we tackled the rockery.
Our main problem is the ground up there is basically rubble and hardcore. When it was landscaped in the summer, a weed suppressant was put down and covered in top soil which has improved it immensely. But the top soil only goes down a few centimetres and then we hit the suppressant. It was time consuming as we needed to cut the suppressant and then dig into the horrible hardcore. Finally we got all the rockery plants planted up and looking grand. The boys got a treat of a personal tour of pond and picking out pieces of ice that had formed on the surface. It was a lovely day and actually reasonably warm, especially when we were digging.
Another job to cross off the list!
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