# Gardening diary

Earlier in the week I had continued felling some trees, now that I
replaced the chainsaw I blew up two weeks ago. There were two trees
inside where I intend to keep the chickens and I want to remove them
before I go to collect the chickens on the 9th of September. One of
them I have felled already and cut up, the remainder of the second
one is unfortunately leaning towards the fence and road, so I will
need some help to finish that one.

Yesterday I spent some time weeding as I had neglected doing it for
quite a while. At this time of year, especially with all the rain
we've been having on and off, the weeds had really taken over.

I noticed that there were runners on a few of the strawberries so
I've dropped them into pots and weighted them down onto the soil so
that they'll root. Once they have, after a few weeks, then I cut the
runner so that it becomes an independent plant.

Today I emptied a lot of pots that had been filled with soil and had
various things put in them that either failed to germinate or had
been abandoned and not planted on (many of them courtesy of my mom).

We had planted some Lollo Rosso in a small trug a couple of weeks ago
and they had been coming on well, then one morning they had all
disappeared... I've no idea what had happened to them but there was
nothing left. So today I made two lines in the same trug, one of
Lollo Rosso and one of Webs Wonderful, as we are now short of lettuce
where earlier in the year we had an abundance of it from what had
continued growing over the winter.

I weeded out some of the herb pots and have seeded two with Sweet
Basil and one with Coriander. The Coriander pot already had a little
still growing in there but not enough to be of much use in the
kitchen.

The place looks a little tidier for removing all the random pots with
dead plants or nothing in them.