Originally Posted by
Olly Buckle
First thing the patio flooded, the drain which takes the kitchen waste had blocked. I spent a considerable time up above the elbow in greasy, smelly , water before I got it running again.
I am digging out a path between vegetable beds. We are on clay and when it rained hard last winter there was flooding, so I am digging paths a foot deep or so and filling them with stuff that won't compost well, but will act as a drainage sump, lifting a paving stone at a time and using what comes out to earth up the potatoes. Today I lifted the next stone and there was a small slow worm under it, a female. I love those little surprises.
Took out a boring little lonicera bush in the front, one like people make hedges of, no flowers or fruit, just a mis-shapen bush. Needed the pick axe to get the roots, going to plant a cutting I took from a variegated weigela.
