Knitting Nets

We've spent quite a long time today and yesterday, trying to stitch together the nets over the fruit cages. As they're quite large, the 6m x 4m nets aren't individually big enough, so we're having to join them. We tried using soft steel split rings (think crude keyrings), but they haven't worked very well, and there are significant gapes between rings.

Instead, we're now weaving jute between the nets, going in and out every hole, which leads to a tight join, if a visible one. However, jute's inoffensive, and actually blends in with the wooden posts, so they're looking fine. We've almost finished the bigger beds: the raspberry beds are going to be harder, as they're so much taller, and the nets will have to come off to be stitched. Never mind.

While we've been working on them, bees have been coming and going unhindered, which is reassuring. Speaking of bees: there are what look like two fruit trees that we were unaware of last autumn. One's near the daffodils on the south edge (reasonably large), and the other's in the corner copse. My identification skills aren't fabulous, but I think they may be cherries or plums...and with a little luck they might bear fruit.

If the weather holds, I'll mow the lawns tomorrow (oh, the joy), as they're looking badly in need of it. If I'm quick, I'll catch the dandelions before the go to seed. No; I'm not a very good groundsman, since you ask.