Gardening in the rain.
We cleaned out Fudge’s hutch today, scrubbed and disinfected it so we could re-use it for Mini, and then the spare cage can go back to Kris for babies (umm, baby piggies, obviously, not people babies…. I hope?)
The final cage cleanings got dumped in an almost ritualistic manner on the kids veg patch - "so when we eat the things we can remember him"
It was drizzling a bit but we stayed outside and planted out some peas, carrots and leeks behind the shed and a melon in the sweetcorn bed near the house. I took some lavender cuttings and if they take then the old (tatty, leggy and falling over) lavender can come out and I can put something else in there - maybe the new acer or fuschia, or both. Anyway, there are 8 cuttings sitting on the sill behind me.
Then we made paper pots and sowed carrot and peas as well as a few ransomes and woad seed - just to see if the ones I’ve saved will actually germinate!
Both kids are doing a lot of talking about Fudge and death in general and in between that and gardening they’ve both done some reading.
- Uncategorized, Growing things, Things they say, Random Learning | Time: 6:06 pm (UTC+8)
