Dorset lifestyle
Not too prickly for the donkeys, it was growing in the rose bed and was over three feet high, and as there was only one they had to share. Tied up the runner beans that were trailing along the ground, one of the poplar rods had stopped sprouting so cut it into two foot lengths and pushed them in around the courgette plants on top of the compost heap where it’ll be well watered. A warm sunny cloudy day with a brisk cool wind.
Jago and Elton inspected the upturned arc and then ran round and round, stopping to head butt each other occasionally. Heavy rain overnight, Willow paddock isn’t too soggy but the Avenue has a puddle where the donkeys roll over, and the spring has surfaced again. finished planting the Poplar rods then lunch at The Crown Hotel in Blandford. A showery, cold, day.
The Field Maples in the meadow strip should be well rooted by now and the Beech hedge is doing it’s best to keep it’s leaves in the wind so have planted a few Poplar rods between the Maples to provide screening and shade. The rods are eight foot long, two feet of which is in the ground and the hole packed with compost from the heap. A sunny, warmer day with light winds.
Planted here to provide shade for the straw area and the small paddock in the summer the first tree didn’t survive so this replacement is a year older and has a much better root system. Doubly protected from the sheep it should straighten up as it grows taller. A poplar was planted in the lower paddock where it should thrive in the puddles. The movers were collected for their annual service, the ride-on was used to control large areas of buttercups in the paddocks so the cutters definitely need sharpening. A very wet, mild, day with some breaks in the cloud, light until after six o’clock.
