Manuring the Beds

We've managed a few hours in the garden, at last. Our neighbour's horse's copious 'production' is piled at the bottom of the field beneath the house, so we've trekked back and forth with the wheelbarrow, collecting manure for the fruit beds. A dozen barrows later (oh, my aching back), the gooseberry/currant/blueberry beds are done, and one raspberry bed. More of this tomorrow morning...

We picked up 80 new gladioli from the garden centre yesterday morning: the 'frost free' location we'd stored the bulbs in after lifting was not, in fact, free from frost over the bitter cold of December (about -10°C, some nights), and the bulbs are almost certainly dead. We also got some P and K fertilizer, and admired the spring hanging baskets: we need to replace our baskets, and plant them up, but their new-season baskets haven't arrived yet. Couple of weeks, hopefully.