#Compost, around a cubic metre of it. All materials from last year (2023). Looks good and smells and feels nice. Would already do for a #mulch but I won't be using it until the autumn, so it has another eight or nine months to decompose more. Home to lots of #earthworms.
Mulched beds, borders and (young) shrubs and trees. Exhausted now and all of our own #compost used up. Vegetable garden mulched a couple of weeks ago already. In all I had about ¾ of a cubic metre of compost. Not enough.
18 #October and #RunnerBeans are still ripening on the plant. I am still harvesting #tomatoes, the chard is looking nice and I have a handful of small courgettes on the plants. Herbs and parsley are still going. Hardy broad beans are in the ground for an early harvest next year.
Rediscovering my passion for black & white photography: Ornamental #grasses in two borders separated by a narrow strip of grass are leaning towards each other and have created a #mysterious hollow.
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Have not had these before: #Geastrum , a #fungus called #Earthstar . Probably a good sign of a healthy, #biodiverse#garden - always exciting to find something new. Not sure, which variety. Maybe someone can help.
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A lone #Echinacea purpurea #flower amongst #seedheads as we move deeper into #autumn . We leave the seedheads standing over the winter.
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Cut out the #bamboo by taking the lower leaves off and took out some stems. Looks a bit radical but may have the desired effect of letting more light through.
Hylotelephium spectabile (sedum, ice plant) and Cosmos. Both late flowering, very popular with the insects, bees in particular, at a time when other flowers are becoming rare.
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