12th January 2021

Sunrise  08:39      Sunset 16:23

Dry this morning, forecasting rain this evening.

Alison decided we should do the Strawberry bed today. There were a few alpine strawberries in there last year. We marked the real strawberries so we hope to have a better patch in 2021. We lifted all the strawberries and discarded the alpine ones. We top dressed the bed with some home made compost and will replant it between today and tomorrow.


We have to go through what we lifted this morning and get the good plants ready for transplanting.


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