Chicken-n-Veg

Posts Tagged ‘broad beans’

The wet weather we’ve had in the last month or so has brought surprisingly swift end to our work in the garden for this year. Weeks of rain have taken their toll and there are many jobs that we haven’t been able to finish. The last proper outdoor task that we did complete, was to prune our fruit trees at the end of October. Since then, however, we have not been really been able to do anything. We totally failed to plant out garlic or broad beans, or dig in manure and cover up the unused beds for winter. More work for next year, I guess !

The natural soil in our garden is clay so all the rain meant large puddles of standing water all over the lawn making any real garden work impossible. There was also quite a lot of standing water in the chickens run which they quickly turned into a mud bath. We had to rearrange their run to avoid the muddy pools and so far their new area is relatively clean.