The gloomy morning was spent on garden odd jobs. These onion and garlic nets* were upcycled into barley straw bales to prevent hair-like blanketweed in our two ponds and the water container garden.
It is best to thread the string through both ends of the tubular net, tying off one end before stuffing with barley straw. Leave the ends of string long as they can be used to tie the bale to a half brick. This will help to submerge the bale discreetly in the pond otherwise it will bob on the surface.
*Apologies in advance but this is a niggle that infuriates us on a daily basis: this type of over-packaging of supermarket consumables is a flagrant disregard of the impact of product end-life on the environment. Since retailers will continue to do so with impunity we feel that it is up to consumers to spend their earnings politically. By upcycling these nets we are trying to make good out of others' bad and are not encouraging new purchases.
The sweet pea shoots were topped to produce side shoots. Tomoto seeds were sowed: Pink Zebra, Green Zebra, Garden Grape, Zapotec PLeated all from Populuxe Seed Bank, Garden Pearl from our Cultivate Waltham Forest 2015 seed pack and Black Russian and Ananas.
Let it be a long, sunny summer.
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